Threat Spotlight: Web apps under active threat from 10-year-old Shellshock bugs and miners
The Shellshock bugs — there are six related CVE designations — have the highest severity rating of 10. They exist in the Unix Bash shell, which is the default command-line interface on all Linux, Unix, and Mac-based operating systems. If...
Threat Spotlight: How attackers are targeting your web applications right now
The number of attacks targeting web applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) has increased significantly. Barracuda mitigated more than 18 billion attacks against applications during 2023, including 1.716 billion in December alone. Web applications are computer programs that are accessed...
Threat Spotlight: How bad bot traffic is changing
Once used primarily by search engines, bots now have a variety of uses — both good and bad. The good bots are primarily search engine crawlers and other similar bots used for aggregating or monitoring content. These bots obey the...
Two high-profile ransomware gangs targeting application vulnerabilities
Since the start of the ransomware epidemic, cybercriminals’ preferred method of attack always been phishing. Email security and user behavior were not advanced as they are today, and people being careless about checking before they click led to many ransomware infections. These...
