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Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks Costing Businesses Up to 6 Billion Annually

Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks Costing Businesses Up to $186 Billion Annually

Organizations are losing between $94 – $186 billion annually to vulnerable or insecure APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and automated abuse by bots. That’s according to The Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks report from… 

New Gorilla Botnet Launches Over 300,000 DDoS Attacks Across 100 Countries

New Gorilla Botnet Launches Over 300,000 DDoS Attacks Across 100 Countries

Oct 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananIoT Security / Botnet Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new botnet malware family called Gorilla (aka GorillaBot) that is a variant of the leaked Mirai botnet source code. Cybersecurity firm NSFOCUS, which… 

Critical Apache Avro SDK Flaw Allows Remote Code Execution in Java Applications

Critical Apache Avro SDK Flaw Allows Remote Code Execution in Java Applications

Oct 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananOpen Source / Software Security A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Apache Avro Java Software Development Kit (SDK) that, if successfully exploited, could allow the execution of arbitrary code… 

Google Blocks Unsafe Android App Sideloading in India for Improved Fraud Protection

Google Blocks Unsafe Android App Sideloading in India for Improved Fraud Protection

Oct 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Mobile Security Google has announced that it’s piloting a new security initiative that automatically blocks sideloading of potentially unsafe Android apps in India, after similar tests in Singapore, Thailand, and…