Category: Web Attacks

WaterHole attack

Watering hole attacks: how APT and cyber criminals infiltrate secure infrastructures

My first encounter with the world of cyber-criminals occurred through a watering hole attack campaign many years ago. I visited a Persian website and discovered that it was downloading malware onto visitorsbrowsers. I promptly contacted the site administrator, who informed me that they had no technical knowledge of the issue. It became apparent that
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credential stuffing

Credential stuffing is no DDoS!

I have heard this many times over the course of the last several years: someone is experiencing a heavy DDoS attack on their website. When I ask them what type of attack they are experiencing, the answer is usually that the bad guys are sending them thousands or even millions of POST requests. When I
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application ddos attacks

Application layer DDoS attacks, and how they can be mitigated

DDoS (distributed denial of service) and DoS (denial of service) attacks can be broadly classified into three categories based on the layers of the OSI model they target: network layer (Layer 3), transport layer (Layer 4), and application layer (Layer 7). Layer 3 and Layer 4 attacks are typically less complexeven though that they might
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