Law, PR firms targeted

November 18, 2009

The FBI warned Tuesday of an increase in targeted phishing emails containing malicious attachments or links that are being sent to law and public relations firms. If executed, the malicious payload used in the attack attempts to download and execute the file ‘srhost.exe' from the domain ‘https://d.ueopen.com,' the agency said in an alert. Any network traffic associated with the domain ‘ueopen.com' should indicate a network is compromised. — AM

Angela Moscaritolo

Application security

Vulnerable API, bot attack losses on the rise

SC StaffSeptember 19, 2024

Automated API exploitation, which comprised 30% of all API attacks, was two to three times higher among organizations with revenues exceeding $1 billion, with the elevated likelihood of abuse attributed to the presence of more exposed or insecure APIs within their ecosystems.