Numerous industriesβincluding technology, financial services, energy, healthcare, and governmentβare rushing to incorporate cloud-based and containerized web applications.Β
The benefits are undeniable; however, this shift presents new security challenges.Β
OPSWAT's 2023 Web Application Security reportΒ reveals:
75% of organizations have modernized their infrastructure this year.
78% have
European and U.S. law enforcement agencies have announced the dismantling of a bulletproof hosting service provider calledΒ Lolek Hosted, which cybercriminals have used to launch cyber-attacks across the globe.
"Five of its administrators were arrested, and all of its servers seized, rendering LolekHosted.net no longer available," EuropolΒ saidΒ in a statement.
"The service facilitated the
At least half of dozen GitHub accounts from fake researchers associated with a fraudulent cybersecurity company have been observed pushing malicious repositories on the code hosting service.
All seven repositories, which are still available as of writing, claim to be a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for purported zero-day flaws in Discord, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Exchange Server.
VulnCheck,
Cloud-based repository hosting service GitHub said it took the step of replacing its RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations "out of an abundance of caution" after it was briefly exposed in a public repository.
The activity, which was carried out at 05:00 UTC on March 24, 2023, is said to have been undertaken as a measure to prevent any bad actor from impersonating the service or