Cyberattacks at Banks and Financial Services Organizations

As part of the 2021 Application Protection Report, we looked at the top reported security incidents to the #F5 SIRT for the years 2018 through 2020. Now we’re taking a deeper dive into the reported security incidents at financial organizations, sometimes referred to as #BFSI for banking, financial services, and insurance institutions. Peter Silva starts the clock for Cyberattacks at Banks and Financial Services Organizations. Read the Report!

DDoS Attack Trends for 2020

Distributed Denial-of-service, or #DDoS, is a persistent threat facing businesses of all types, regardless of geographic location or target market. DDoS tools are becoming easier to use, while the attacks themselves are becoming more complex—frequently combining many different methods in one assault. With attack data from the F5 Silverline Security Operations Center and incidents logged by the F5 Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), I start the clock to check out DDoS Attack Trends for #2020 and read the article.

2021 Application Protection Report: Of Ransom and Redemption

 Now in its 4th year, the #F5Labs 2021 Application Protection Report (https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/thre...) is our effort to boil the application security risk landscape down to put the initiative back into the hands of defenders. We analyzed more than 700 data breaches from 2020. Peter Silva starts the clock for an extended edition of some the highlights from F5Labs 2021 #APR in this episode of 90 Seconds of Security.

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Credential Stuffing Tools and Techniques

Credential stuffing is a type of cyberattack that uses credentials obtained from previous breaches to take over accounts on other web or mobile applications. This type of brute force attack relies on the fact that many people use the same usernames and passwords on multiple sites. See how attackers use #OpenBullet​ to create a Credential Stuffing attack. Let's start the clock for #CredentialStuffing Tools and Techniques including #OpenBullet in this 90 Seconds of Security episode. And learn more at F5Labs.com

F5 SIRT’s Top Reported Security Incidents, 2018-2020

The F5 Security Incident Response Team helps customers tackle security incidents in real time. In 2020, we talked about what happened in the beginning of the pandemic based on #F5 #SIRT cases. Now we're looking back at all F5 SIRT cases from the beginning of 2018 to the end of 2020 and break down what changed and what didn’t in the cyberthreat landscape because of the pandemic. So, let’s start the clock to look at SIRT’s Top Reported Security Incidents, 2018-2020. Go to the full article

How Ransomware Has Evolved to Be Faster, Stealthier, and Strike Harder

 

Ransomware attacks have reached the boiling point. They’ve gone from nuisance to significant financial burden—as well as a mortal threat to critical infrastructure. Financial damage from ransomware attacks is in the hundreds of millions of dollars for some organizations. And, of course, our F5 Labs threat researchers have something to say about it. So, let’s start the clock to explore How Ransomware Has Evolved to Be Faster, Stealthier, and Strike Harder. 

Full article: https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/ransomware-how-it-has-evolved-to-be-faster-stealthier-and-strike-harder

90 Seconds of Security: Phishing Trends for 2019

Phishing has become the number one attack vector for good reason - it requires a low amount of effort for a very high reward. 

F5 Labs (f5labs.com) released their 2019 Phishing and Fraud Report showing that there's no slowing down in the amount or number of phishing attacks. In fact, we expect phishing to occur year-round, not just around the holidays. Download the full report at: https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/2019-phishing-and-fraud-report

90 Seconds of Security: Breach Trends for 2019

F5 Labs Threat Intelligence team (f5labs.com) recently published their 2nd annual Application Protection Report and we take a look at some of the highlights. We cover PHP vulnerabilities, Formjacking, magecart attacks, and the relationship between breach causes and industry sectors. Get your copy at F5Labs.com

 

90 Seconds of Security: In the Wild Malware for April 2019

A 90 second recap of 'In the Wild' Vulnerabilities, Exploits, and Malware Driving Attack Campaigns in April 2019.

Get the details at: https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/vulnerabilities--exploits--and-malware-driving-attack-campaigns-in-april-2019




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How Malware Evades Detection

Malware loves encryption since it can sneak around undetected. F5Labs 2018 Phishing & Fraud Report explains how malware tricks users and evades detection. 

Let's light up how evasion happens & get your F5 Labs 2018 Phishing & Fraud Report today.

F5 Labs 2018 Phishing & Fraud Report

The F5 Labs 2018 Phishing & Fraud Report is out!

In this report, the F5 Labs team specifically investigated the rise of phishing and fraud during the 'holiday shopping season,' beginning in October and continuing through January. Fraud and phishing attempts increase 50% right now, from October to January and phishing was the root cause of 48% of the data breaches that F5Labs investigated. It's important to check out the report because it explains how phishing works, how to defend yourself against phishing attacks and the importance of training employees to recognize malicious emails.

Some of the crazy stats they found include 93% of phishing domains offered a secure (https) version of the site to appear more legitimate and 68% of malware sites used encryption certificates (https), meaning 68% of Command & Control servers use port 443. The crooks are going through the trouble of getting SSL certificates for their fake, but real looking sites.


Take a look at some of these. Do any of these web logins look familiar?

How about this one?

Or maybe this one?

If so then you need to check out the 2018 Phishing and Fraud report from F5 Labs because they were all fake. Attackers are getting so good at creating fake websites that impersonate the real thing, most people can’t tell the difference. One thing is for certain, employee click-through rates on phishing emails drop from 33% to 13% with security awareness training:

• 33% — 1-5 training events
• 28% — 6-10 training events
• 13% — 11 or more training events

You can check out the Preview Video here and get your report at https://www.f5.com/labs


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