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Bad bots are automated programs designed with malicious intent to perform various activities on the internet, often causing harm to individuals, organizations, and online ecosystems. By masquerading as authentic users, bad bots empower bot operators, attackers, unscrupulous competitors, and fraudsters to execute a diverse range of malicious activities.
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a "notable increase" in threat actor activity actively exploiting a now-patched flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to deliver the Godzilla web shell on compromised...
Leaked credentials from traditional sources are still a prominent and substantial risk to organizations. We monitor more than 14 billion leaked credentials found from dumps across the dark web.
The open-source Bitwarden password manager has announced that all users can now log into their web vaults using a passkey instead of the standard username and password pairs. "This technology sources an encryption key from a passkey in relation to a particular site, which can then be used to reliably encrypt and decrypt data" - Bitwarden.
Link history stores records for 30 days, can be used to recall pages previously read, and excludes links sent in messages. Less prominently mentioned on help pages describing the feature on Facebook and Instagram is, of course, perhaps the real reason for the capability: "We may use link history information from our browser to improve your ads across Meta technologies."
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said it charged 19 individuals worldwide in connection with the now-defunct xDedic Marketplace, which is estimated to have facilitated more than $68 million in...
Microsoft has disabled a protocol that allowed the installation of Windows apps after finding that miscreants were abusing the mechanism to install malware. The move came just before Christmas, and seemingly mimicked issues first reported in December 2021, to address a Windows AppX Installer vulnerability in which an attacker could spoof App Installer into installing malicious software.
German law enforcement has announced the disruption of a dark web platform called Kingdom Market that specialized in the sales of narcotics and malware to "tens of thousands of users."...
A new malware campaign that emerged in March 2023 used JavaScript web injections to try to steal the banking data of over 50,000 users of 40 banks in North America, South America, Europe, and Japan. Once the victim visits the attackers' compromised or malicious sites, the malware injects a new script tag with a source attribute pointing to an externally hosted script.
Web Application Security consists of a myriad of security controls that ensure that a web application: Functions as expected. Cannot be exploited to operate out of bounds. Cannot initiate...