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A deep dive into a wide variety of cloud-related security data breaches, both maliciously caused and accidental.

IoT botnet Gafgyt targets popular routers through RCE vulnerabilities, and even removes competing malware.

New campaign activity for remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities disclosed this year picked up in the month of November.

The same countries that attacked the rest of the world also attacked systems in Russia, but from different networks and IP addresses.

Attackers targeted applications and conducted credential stuffing attacks against systems in Asia during the fall of 2019.

A Mirai variant named Echobot appeared mid-2019. Echobot has been seen expanding its arsenal to 71 exploits, targeting SCADA systems and IoT devices.

Europe saw more in-region attack traffic—the hardest kind to filter out—than any of the 8 regions of the world we analyzed.

Attackers probed Australian applications for vulnerabilities on the most commonly used ports, and credential stuffing attacks were prevalent.

Cloud security breaches happen, but how prevalent and dangerous are they? More than you might think.

DanaBot makes a strong resurgence at the end of 2019, using new tactics and techniques and expanding beyond its traditional banking targets.

Learn from the best CISOs how to handle the challenges of aligning technology and compliance with security architecture.

Latin American systems received more attacks from IP addresses within the region that coincidentally did not attack anywhere else in the world.

The U.S. and Canada have 95% of top source traffic countries in common.

Vulnerable web servers are the top target for threat actors, who continue to exploit known vulnerabilities with the goal of running commands remotely.

U.S. systems were heavily targeted by IP addresses in Russia, Moldova, and France that launched credential stuffing attacks on VNC port 5900 beginning in June 2019.

IP addresses assigned in Russia launched significantly more attacks against Middle East systems than any other regions of the world.

The widespread adoption of cloud services is causing a widespread expansion of the attack surface. F5 Labs' David Warburton writes for CSO Australia, discussing how you can still manage risk in an outsourced world.

A good starting point for improving API security is to develop a technical security standard (sometimes called API security policies) for each API. F5 Labs' Ray Pompon writes for Help Net Security, discussing how we can improve our API security.

Insertion point security used to be easy: protect the perimeter. F5 Labs' Preston Hogue writes for SecurityWeek, discussing the new reality of insertion point security in a world where apps are your perimeter.

The short, concentrated brief on the 2019 application threat landscape, and what you can do to protect your apps.