CVE-2021-22984: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site

On BIG-IP Advanced WAF and ASM version 15.1.x before 15.1.0.2, 15.0.x before 15.0.1.4, 14.1.x before 14.1.2.5, 13.1.x before 13.1.3.4, 12.1.x before 12.1.5.2, and 11.6.x before 11.6.5.2, when receiving a unauthenticated client request with a maliciously crafted URI, a BIG-IP Advanced WAF or ASM...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIG-IP ASM Bot Defense open redirection vulnerability (K33440533)

When receiving a unauthenticated client request with a maliciously crafted URI, a BIG-IP Advanced WAF or ASM virtual server configured with a DoS profile with Proactive Bot Defense versions prior to 14.1.0, or a Bot Defense profile versions 14.1.0 and later, may subject clients and web servers to...

What tracking an attacker email infrastructure tells us about persistent cybercriminal operations

From March to December 2020, we tracked segments of a dynamically generated email infrastructure that attackers used to send more than a million emails per month, distributing at least seven distinct malware families in dozens of campaigns using a variety of phishing lures and tactics. These...

What tracking an attacker email infrastructure tells us about persistent cybercriminal operations

From March to December 2020, we tracked segments of a dynamically generated email infrastructure that attackers used to send more than a million emails per month, distributing at least seven distinct malware families in dozens of campaigns using a variety of phishing lures and tactics. These...

Breaking Down Joe Biden's $10B Cybersecurity 'Down Payment'

President Joe Biden laid out a series of cybersecurity initiatives last week at his inauguration, including earmarking $10 billion for various cybersecurity defense initiatives. Those included hiring key security personnel to support for the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency CISA. The...

Taking a Neighborhood Watch Approach to Retail Cybersecurity

Every year retailers face a heightened level of risk during the online holiday shopping season. COVID-19 drastically shifted consumer buying behaviors, forcing retailers to accelerate digital transformation efforts to support an exponentially higher number of online transactions. Projected U.S...

Simplifying Proactive Defense With Threat Playbooks

Security defense strategy can be extremely complex, with security teams grappling with tens of thousands of information points and evolving attacker techniques, said Derek Manky, Chief of Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs. Derek Manky FortiGuard Labs has...

2021 Healthcare Cybersecurity Priorities: Experts Weigh In

Healthcare cybersecurity is in triage mode. As systems are stretched to the limits by COVID-19 and technology becomes an essential part of everyday patient interactions, hospital and healthcare IT departments have been left to figure out how to make it all work together, safely and securely. Most...

Akamai's Polymorphic AI Framework Preemptively Manages Bots

Too many security efforts react to threats as they come. While security teams often succeed through Herculean efforts, being constantly under siege takes its toll on your resources. The relentless barrage of bot attacks will eventually crack the human- and system-based methods to block or mitigat...

Secure Your SaaS Apps With Security Posture Management Platform

As security professionals who have spent more than a few years in the industry, we know a good challenge when we see one. SaaS and cloud-based technologies are growing rapidly, offering organizations convenience and constant feature refreshes without the need to install and deploy software...

SecOps Teams Wrestle with Manual Processes, HR Gaps

Only about half of enterprises are satisfied with their ability to detect cybersecurity threats, according to a survey from Forrester Consulting – with respondents painting a picture of major resource and technology gaps hamstringing their efforts to block cyberattacks. According to the...

GHSA-86QR-9VQC-PGC6 Code execution in Spring Integration

Spring Integration framework provides Kryo Codec implementations as an alternative for Java deserialization. When Kryo is configured with default options, all unregistered classes are resolved on demand. This leads to the "deserialization gadgets" exploit when provided data contains malicious cod...

Code execution in Spring Integration

Spring Integration framework provides Kryo Codec implementations as an alternative for Java deserialization. When Kryo is configured with default options, all unregistered classes are resolved on demand. This leads to the "deserialization gadgets" exploit when provided data contains malicious cod...

CVE-2020-5413

Spring Integration framework provides Kryo Codec implementations as an alternative for Java deserialization. When Kryo is configured with default options, all unregistered classes are resolved on demand. This leads to the "deserialization gadgets" exploit when provided data contains malicious cod...

Making Azure Sentinel work for you

Microsoft Azure Sentinel is the first Security Incident and Event Management SIEM solution built into a major public cloud platform that delivers intelligent security analytics across enterprise environments and offers automatic scalability to meet changing needs. This new white paper outlines be...

Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3d: Zen and the art of threat hunting

Threat hunting is a powerful way for the SOC to reduce organizational risk, but it’s commonly portrayed and seen as a complex and mysterious art form for deep experts only, which can be counterproductive. In this and the next blog we will shed light on this important function and recommend simple...

The European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2020 – Meet the Finalists

Qualys is sponsoring the EU Cybersecurity Blogger Awards for 2020, representing a ‘who’s who’ of people that write and share their opinions around the security sector. Ahead of the winners being announced on the 2nd of June, we thought we’d ask some questions around what is taking place in securi...

Record 0-Second SLA PPS Mitigation

Record-High 312 Mpps Attack Mitigated in 0 Seconds On May 2, 2020, Akamai blocked a large PPS-focused attack against one of our financial services customers in 0 seconds, utilizing a proactive mitigation posture. This was one of the largest PPS levels we have on record, and the biggest mitigated ...

Predicting the Future of the SOC Analyst

I’ve been a SOC Analyst for four years now and was a desktop support engineer before that. When I first started as a SOC Analyst it was an exciting change. I was going to help protect the company and resolve suspicious incidents before they turned into breaches. The reality of my day-to-day was n...

Mitigating vulnerabilities in endpoint network stacks

The skyrocketing demand for tools that enable real-time collaboration, remote desktops for accessing company information, and other services that enable remote work underlines the tremendous importance of building and shipping secure products and services. While this is magnified as organizations...