F5 Labs

It can be easy to give in to frustration and pessimism during catastrophic events. But there are signs that not all is lost, even in the world of software dependencies.

As Christmas quickly approaches, seasonal phishing trends once again show that attackers are taking advantage of increased online shopping. Fraudsters doubled their efforts in November attacking ecommerce giants such as Amazon. The real attacker focus, however, was cryptocurrency with fraudulent sites...

The log4j security vulnerability is one of the most widespread cybersecurity vulnerabilities in recent years. Here's a non-technical explanation of it.

Scans continue against remote logins like VNC, RDP, and SSH, as well as MySQL and Elasticsearch. And what’s going on in Malaysia and Lithuania?

Retail fraud, identity theft, account takeovers, stolen payment cards—it feels like digital fraud is everywhere. Understand it better to fight it more effectively.

A look at multi-cloud security strategies, including the emerging practices of omni-cloud, Functions as a Service, Containers as a Service, cloud security posture management, and data sovereignty.

Creating an encrypted HTTPS website depends on a lot more than simply throwing a digital certificate at it and hoping for the best. In fact, Transport Layer Security (TLS) and HTTPS misconfigurations are now so commonplace that in the 2021 OWASP Top 10, Cryptographic Failures now comes in second place....

DNS is better known, but some recent high-profile outages are a reminder that Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) failures can take sites down too.

Managing hardened systems without exposing them to unwanted attack vectors is difficult. Jump boxes are one way to do it—learn why and how.

South Africa’s cyberattack landscape saw targeting of Scryba, PHP, and CVE-2017-9841 web vulnerabilities.

A detailed look at an 840-Gbps DDoS attack on a financial services provider and a deeper dive into attacking nodes.

Existing fraud tricks are finding new use in buy now, pay later payment systems.

Stopping ransomware takes work—F5 looks at the defense techniques of user account management, network segmentation, and data backup.

The title of this report is not a typo. “The State of the State of Application Exploits in Security Incidents” is a meta-analysis of several prominent industry reports, each of which covers the state of application security.

Mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) allows two parties to authenticate each other during the initial connection of an SSL/TLS handshake.

Examining three breach and compliance failure cases under the New York Department of Financial Services’ 23 NYCRR Part 500 cybersecurity regulation.

A detailed examination of application risk and cybersecurity attack chains, broken down by sector.

From spoofing device fingerprints to hijacking authenticated sessions, attackers use a range of techniques to bypass multifactor authentication.

MITRE ATT&CK, a framework that uniquely describes cyberattacks from the attacker’s perspective, is quickly being adopted by organizations worldwide as a tool for analyzing threats and improving security defenses.

A review of 2018-2020 cyberattacks at brokerages, investment funds, payment processors, and financial services organizations as well as API security incidents and open banking.