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Most startup CTOs have an excellent understanding of how to build highly functional SaaS businesses but need to gain more knowledge of how to secure the web application that underpins it. According to recent research from Verizon, web application attacks are involved in 26% of all breaches, and app security is a concern for of enterprises.
The dark web is getting darker as cybercrime gangs increasingly shop their malware, phishing, and ransomware tools on illegal cybercrime markets. In 2022, threat actors preferred joining a RaaS for ransomware attacks as they tend to have more freedom and can deploy faster than private ransomware.
A new attack method can be used to circumvent web application firewalls of various vendors and infiltrate systems, potentially enabling attackers to gain access to sensitive business and customer information. Web application firewalls are a key line of defense to help filter, monitor, and block HTTP(S) traffic to and from a web application, and safeguard against attacks such as cross-site forgery, cross-site-scripting, file inclusion, and SQL injection.
Cybercrime marketplaces are increasingly selling stolen corporate email addresses for as low as $2 to fill a growing demand by hackers who use them for business email compromise and phishing attacks or initial access to networks. Analysts at Israeli cyber-intelligence firm KELA have closely followed this trend, reporting at least 225,000 email accounts for sale on underground markets.
Attackers have taken over at least one expired domain that used to host a popular JavaScript library and used it to deliver web skimming scripts to a number of e-commerce sites. "The victim websites had years to remove the dead link that was leveraged by attackers but didn't - likely due to a lack of visibility about third-party scripts running on their websites and poor security hygiene," Jscrambler researchers noted.
In this Help Net Security video, Roman Faithfull, Cyber Intelligence Analyst at Digital Shadows, talks about how threat actors mobilize new members within the cybercriminal ecosystem. Cybercriminal forums are awash with users advertising and requesting the services of developers to design fresh new malware.
Medibank on Thursday confirmed that the threat actors behind the devastating cyber attack have posted another dump of data stolen from its systems on the dark web after its refusal to pay a ransom. "We are in the process of analyzing the data, but the data released appears to be the data we believed the criminal stole," the Australian health insurer said.
Medibank on Thursday confirmed that the threat actors behind the devastating cyber attack have posted another dump of data stolen from its systems on the dark web after its refusal to pay a ransom. "We are in the process of analyzing the data, but the data released appears to be the data we believed the criminal stole," the Australian health insurer said.
Amazon Web Services has resolved a cross-tenant vulnerability in its platform that could be weaponized by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to resources. "This attack abuses the AppSync service to assume roles in other AWS accounts, which allows an attacker to pivot into a victim organization and access resources in those accounts," Datadog researcher Nick Frichette said in a report published last week.
Amazon Web Services has resolved a cross-tenant vulnerability in its platform that could be weaponized by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to resources."This attack abuses the AppSync service to assume roles in other AWS accounts, which allows an attacker to pivot into a victim organization and access resources in those accounts," Datadog researcher Nick Frichette said in a report published last week.