Wallarm Kubernetes Ingress Controller

Kubernetes is a popular technology which aims to improve how containers, microservices and other distributed components are managed across varied infrastructure. Since it was first announced by Google in 2014, it has grown in adoption and is now one of the leading system for automated deployment...

Not all treasure is silver or gold

How Bug Bounty Programs Help Improve SaaS and Web Security By Captain Jack Sparrow, CC BY-SA 3.0, As many companies who have found themselves victims of a debilitating ransomware attack or major data breach have found out; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The same is true for...

Evolution of API Security – A Practical Guide to Addressing API Threats in 2023

The kind of API security scenarios we witnessed today were never like this from the beginning of time. It has gone to extra lengths to become responsive and productive as it’s now. How was it in the beginning? What changes has it faced? What more can we expect in the future? If this is what bothe...

My Takeaways from the Gartner I&O Conference

By Renata Budko, Wallarm Last week I spent a few days in Las Vegas with the great folks at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference. Gathered for the conference there were experts around the world from analysts to VPs to infrastructure and operations leaders to...

CVE-2024-29849: Veeam discloses Critical Vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass user authentication on its Backup Enterprise Manager web interface

On May 21, 2024, Veeam revealed a severe flaw across its Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager VBEM web interface that enables an unauthenticated attacker to log into the web interface as any user. Officially designated as CVE-2024-29849, the vulnerability presents a major threat with a CVSS V3 rating ...

TiE Inflect 2018 announces Wallarm as a 2018 TiE50 Finalist

We are excited to share one more win for the Wallarm team. Wallarm has been selected as a “2018 TiE50 Finalist” for the prestigious TiE50 Awards Program recognizing the world’s most innovative tech startups. This awards competition is part of TiE Inflect 2018, a prominent conference for tech...

OWASP APIsec Top-10 2023 Is Here | API Security Newsletter

Welcome to our May API newsletter, recapping some of the events of last month. As the old proverb goes, April showers bring May flowers – and this means the bees at the Wallarm hive have been in full foraging mode and the honey is flowing: lots of updates & improvements to the platform, and much...

CVE-2022-1388: Critical security vulnerabilities in F5 Big-IP allows attackers to execute arbitrary code

On May 5, 2022, MITRE published CVE-2022-1388, an authentication bypass vulnerability in the BIG-IP modules affecting the iControl REST component. The vulnerability was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9.8 The vulnerability was discovered internally by the F5 security team and there is no evidence of...

An Analog Approach to Secure Operations in Kubernetes

Security is not something you achieve. It's something you continually take care of and understand as constantly transforming. Here are our tips about your K8s cybersecurity The post An Analog Approach to Secure Operations in Kubernetes appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

Tips for Securing Online Payments

Understand how e-commerce transactions work, what a payment gateway is, and how to keep your online payments secure. Online businesses mean even more reliance of customer trust, which means higher security. The post Tips for Securing Online Payments appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

OWASP Top 10 2017 is Released

The Journey to the New and Improved Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks It was not too long ago that protecting your web server infrastructure consisted of simply placing the servers in their own zone behind the firewall and just opening a couple of ports. Outside of endpoint...

http2smugl: HTTP2 request smuggling security testing tool

HTTP/2 become the standard defacto for the modern web and causes new application security risks. The HTTP2 request smuggling is one of a few HTTP/2 vulnerabilities with the high severity that raised last year. In this post, we will describe it in detail and suggest an open-source tool http2smugl...

Application Security Testing — The Wallarm Approach

Testing the security of the corporate applications is a part of every-day life for Ops and DevOps professionals. Larger companies have whole teams dedicated to independent security testing, called Red Teams. These folks use various tools at their disposal to discover the flaws in both application...

16 Best DDOS Attack Tools in 2022

What are DDOS attack tools? DDOS attacks are cyber- attacks targeted at rendering certain computers, network systems and servers non-functional. The processes involved in its execution can be however complicated. Attackers have to carry out a long series of actions that involve social engineering...

App Security and PCI; Are you ready for the audit?

As most people know, merchants, financial institutions and anybody else who is involved in processing credit cards are subject to the PCI DSS compliance to reduce fraud and cybersecurity risks. This affects both brick-n-mortar stores and banks as well as card-not-present CNP transactions that...

PHP Remote Code Execution 0-Day Discovered in Real World CTF Exercise

When a security researcher found an unusual PHP script while solving an hCorem Capture the Flag task, it reveal hundreds of millions of users are vulnerable to attack. Learn the deep tech. The post PHP Remote Code Execution 0-Day Discovered in Real World CTF Exercise appeared first on Wallarm Blo...

API Vulnerabilities Jump Up 3.7x in Q2-2022

Since the beginning of 2022, the Wallarm security research team has been analyzing API vulnerabilities and exploits, and releasing quarterly reports. The Q1 report got a lot of attention and positive feedback from the cybersecurity community, as well as a few valuable ideas and suggestions. We...

Three new API exploits causes GitLab data privacy and availability issues

On May 10, 2022, and May 11, 2022, CVE-2022-1352 CVE-2021-1431, and CVE-2022-1545 were fixed and published on Gitlab-ORG public repository. There are no technical details or exploits yet, but according to the high-level description and titles, they gonna be critical Gitlab API vulnerabilities tha...

Autoscaling Wallarm Nodes in AWS, GCP, and Azure

Newly updated Wallarm Node images now natively support autoscaling capabilities in AWS, GCP, and Azure. Updated images are already available in cloud provider marketplaces and can rely on the native auto-scaling to adjust the number of nodes based on traffic, CPU load, and other parameters. What ...

Wallarm API Discovery: Discover API endpoints automatically and secure them

What do you know about your APIs? Why are the vulnerable v2 and v3 still exposed if they are deprecated for almost a year? What else is exposed and you don’t even know? Are Swagger specs up to date? Teaser: Surely not. A lot of questions, right? Meet Wallarm’s latest feature for API Discovery and...

CVE-2024-3080: ASUS warns Customers about the latest Authentication Bypass Vulnerability detected Across seven Router Models

ASUS announces major Firmware Update ASUS recently issued a firmware update to resolve a critical security vulnerability affecting seven different variants of its router models. Identified as CVE-2024-3080 with a CVSS v3 severity score of 9.8 critical, the vulnerability permits remote attackers t...

Testing with OpenAPI Specifications

The 2023 SANS Survey on API Security Jun-2023 found that less than 50 percent of respondents have API security testing tools in place. Even fewer 29 percent have API discovery tools. Wallarm delivers both these capabilities via our single, integrated App and API Security platform. Wallarm has lon...

Update on Spring Data MongoDB SpEL Expression Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2022-22980)

Background On June 20, 2022 Spring released Spring Data MongoDB 3.4.1 and 3.3.5 to address a critical CVE report: CVE-2022-22980: Spring Data MongoDB SpEL Expression injection vulnerability through annotated repository query methods. This vulnerability was originally reported on June 13, 2022...

Changes in OWASP API Security Top-10 2023RC | API Security Newsletter

Welcome to our March API newsletter, recapping some of the events of last month. And what a month it was. Among other buzzworthy news, OWASP published the initial Release Candidate for the 2023 API Security Top-10 list – we analyzed the ins & outs and presented them over the course of a couple of...

GCP ESPv2 Hit with Critical API Authorization Bypass CVE-2023-30845

This post delves into a very impactful JWT Authentication Bypass vulnerability CVE-2023-30845 found in ESP-v2, an open-source service proxy that provides API management capabilities using Google Service Infrastructure. This vulnerability allows malicious API clients to bypass JWT authentication...

CVE-2024-24919: Check Point’s Quantum Gateway comes under Attack as Hackers exploit Zero-Day Vulnerability

Active Exploits target Check Point Security Gateway Zero-Day Information Disclosure flaw Check Point Cybersecurity has issued hotfixes to address a zero-day vulnerability in its VPNs that has been exploited to gain remote access to firewalls and potentially infiltrate corporate networks. On...

Octopus Strike! Three Argo CD API Exploits In Two Weeks

Argo CD is a popular Continuous Deployment tool that enables DevOps teams to manage their applications across multiple environments. However, in the past two weeks, three critical vulnerabilities have been detected in the tool, exposing sensitive information and compromising the security of the...

Cybersecurity: What to Expect in the Year Ahead

So, what lies ahead? Let’s turn over our virtual coffee cups and read the coffee grounds. .... report also shows that as many as 60% of all hacker attacks are using a compromised web application to gain unauthorized access or steal data. The post Cybersecurity: What to Expect in the Year Ahead...

Wallarm New Open Source Module and Kaggle Hackathon

A key element of any security solution, whether its a WAF, NGWAF, RASP or even a SIEM or a classic IDS, is the ability to correctly detect whether an incoming API request is malicious. The traditional way to do it is using signatures and regular expressions regex. Some sets of signatures are...

CVE-2024-5655: Latest GitLab API Vulnerability Threatens Customer Data Exposure

A security flaw that impacts specific versions of GitLab's Community and Enterprise Edition products was just detected. This vulnerability can be exploited to execute pipelines under any user's credentials. GitLab is a web-based DevOps platform offering tools for software development, version...

Kafka vs RabbitMQ

An Intro to Kafka and RabbitMQ: The Masters of Messaging In the realm of messaging systems, two names stand out: Kafka and RabbitMQ. These two powerhouses have become the go-to solutions for developers and organizations looking to handle high-volume, real-time data processing and messaging. But...

Securing GraphQL API

Introduction to GraphQL Representational state transfer REST APIs are the most popular type of API. However, GraphQL is rapidly growing in popularity as a competitor to REST. GraphQL is a meta-layer with built-in query language to access object-oriented data. It’s based on JSON-encoded HTTP...

What stealthy attacks are hiding in API data — and why do most WAF miss them?!

What stealthy attacks are hiding in API data — and why do most WAF miss them?! API Data: What is it and how is it saying it? APIs are the blood flow of today’s applications — from online browser-based apps to mobile apps to sophisticated distributed enterprise applications connecting dozens of...

Apigee API Security policies howto

The Genesis of Apigee API Security Guidelines In today's digital epoch, APIs Application Programming Interfaces" have ascended to be the fundamental infrastructure underpinning software development - furnishing the medium for diverse software systems to interact and exchange data. Yet, with this...

New GigaOm Report: Path to DevOps Success

This month Wallarm has partnered with GigaOm to help our DevOps customers better understand the industry landscape and strategies to address the challenges of doing things the agile way. GigaOm’s perspective is that of the unbiased enterprise practitioner. GigaOm works directly with enterprises...

Wallarm starts to highlight CVE to address OWASP Top-10 A6 Vulnerable and Outdated Components

Attacks against known vulnerabilities are one of the most common security risks. Have you seen an updated OWASP Top-10? A risk that used to be A09 Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities is now titled A06:2021-Vulnerable and Outdated Components. This category moved up to 06 from 9 in 2017. We...

Wallarm CEO Ivan Novikov joins Forbes Technology Council

White hat security professional and entrepreneur Ivan Novikov has joined the Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only community that serves as a platform for technology leaders to discuss and solve pressing business challenges with their peers and share their insights with readers on...

Wallarm Named to the Big50 2018–19 Report on the Top Startups in Tech

Wallarm has been named a “Hot Startup to Watch” in Startup50’s Big50 2018–19 Startup Report. The Big50 2018–19 Startup Report spotlights 50 high-upside startups that have gained a foothold in fast-growth tech sectors. Each year, Startup50 features startups that are poised to upend the status quo ...

Cloudflare fixed an HTTP/2 smuggling vulnerability

On July 14th, Emil Lerner found and explored new ways of HTTP desync/smuggling exploitation based on HTTP/2 request processing issues. He submitted the bug to the Cloudflare security team through their bug bounty program. This security issue took Cloudflare a week to fix and was completed on July...

Make Sure Your Security Is Ready for the President’s Day Shopping Spree

By Tony Bradley The following article was originally written to provide e-retailers with tip and tricks for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping. However, with the biggest President’s day spring sales approaching, the best practices and how-to remain the same. More about e-commerce security...

CVE-2024-41110: Once Again, Docker Addresses API Vulnerability That Can Bypass Auth Plugins

Summary A significant vulnerability CVE-2024-41110 was recently discovered in Docker Engine version 18.09.1.Although the issue was identified and fixed in 2019, the patch did not apply to other major versions, resulting in regression. The vulnerability was assigned a CVSS score of 10 critical...

CVE-2024-36680: SQL Injection Vulnerability in Facebook’s PrestaShop Module Exposes Thousands of E-commerce Sites to Credit Card Fraud

SQL Injection Exposure in Promokit.eu Threatens Facebook's PrestaShop Customers PrestaShop is a free, open-source E-commerce platform launched in 2007. Built with PHP and MySQL, it offers customizable, scalable solutions for online stores. Features include product management, inventory tracking,...

What to Expect at RSA 2019

Attending RSAC 2019? The week promises to be full of exciting content, useful connections, networking and insights into new security trends. BSides San Francisco The week will start on March 3rd with the amazing BSides event. The BSides community has continuously raised the bar and put the INFO...

Improper Authorization in Confluence Data Center and Server (CVE-2023-22518)

In early November, the cybersecurity community witnessed the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server. This critical vulnerability was related to Improper Authorization and assigned CVE-2023-22518 identifier. In this blog, we delve into the details of these...

ChatGPT: Friend or Foe? | API Security Newsletter

Welcome to our April API newsletter, recapping some of the events of last month. This month’s topic is Generative AI tools e.g., ChatGPT in cybersecurity. It – along with API Security – dominated the 2023 RSA Conference, and there’s plenty of digital ink being spilled on the topic. Be sure to wat...

Numbers game: Exploring IntegerOverflow vulnerability in a popular nginx web server.

By @aLLy , Wallarm Research There was a very interesting vulnerability discovered in nginx, one of the most popular web/proxy/load balancing servers. This vulnerability leaks information about the application behind the nginx proxy. For example, a specially formed request can retrieve information...

From Regular Expressions to AI

Three generations of attack detection methodology The oldest and well-studied approach is based on signatures and heuristics. From before the internet times, this approach was implemented in most kinds of detection systems from firewalls to anti-viruses. The second genera- tion represents an...

Defining Wallarm API-specific Rules

Case Study Using SugarCRM API As an Example A unique Wallarm AI feature is its ability to automatically detect and parse complicated API protocols and then set up security rules based on specific data or parameters deep inside the API. Once parsed, the system creates the rules-based both on where...

Meet with Wallarm at BlackHat USA 2017

Meet Wallarm team at BlackHat USA 2017 Start your day with a good cup of coffee and a hearty breakfast at PRESS lounge. Join Wallarm team for breakfast on the last day of BlackHat conference. Meet and network with like-minded white hat security professionals while fueling up for another day of...

What Your Board Gets Wrong About AI Security

Editor's note: This article was originally published by Craig Riddell on LinkedIn. It has been republished here with the author's permission. Boards are giving AI security more airtime than ever. What they're not giving is the right framing. A year or two ago, AI was mostly a question of...