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APIs will continue to drive business and accelerate digital transformation this year to the extent that nearly no other technology can; according to the 19th Developer Economics survey by Slashdata, almost 90% of all developers use APIs. This makes them a target for attackers who aren’t afraid to engage in any tactic, especially tried-and-true methods like parameter tampering attacks - malicious API attack traffic surged 117% from 2021 to 2022.

Crystal Bay Casino is a gambling establishment located in Lake Tahoe. The facility includes slots, table games, and sports betting and features a small hotel known as the Border House for gamblers to stay in luxury. This luxury casino was recently hit by an attack on its IT servers, and its customers may have had their confidential information exposed in the attack. Learn about the full scope of the attack and how the casino is responding to this incident to protect its customers.

Dole PLC is a massive agricultural company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Dole has several offices and production facilities in the United States and supplies food products in 75 separate countries. The company maintains a staff of over 38,000 employees and offers more than 300 different products throughout the world.

It may be the shortest month, but February brought no shortage of bad behavior by cybercriminals. In our latest cyber attack roundup of the ever-thriving world of cybercrime, we look at a disturbing theft from one of the United States’ most secretive government organizations, a long-running ransomware tie-up for a major media company, a never-ending nightmare for a security-minded internet company, and the latest of many breaches for one of the backbones of the modern web.

The Dutch Police have arrested three individuals for suspected ransomware activity, which generated at least 2.5M Euro in extortion fees. The actors are believed to have attacked thousands of organizations, compromising the data of tens of millions of individuals. This is another example of successful law enforcement activity against ransomware operations. Such activity has increased over the past year, leading to the arrest of several prominent ransomware group members, such as Revil and Netwalker.

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) acts as a vital bridge between the world of IP addresses and MAC addresses, allowing devices on local area networks to seek out each other's physical address based solely on their IP. ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) can also be defined as a communication protocol used to map a network layer address (such as an IP address) to a link layer address (such as a MAC address).

Willie Sutton, the criminal who became legendary for stealing from banks during a forty year career, was once asked, "Why do you keep robbing banks?" His answer? "Because that's where the money is." However, today there's a better target for robbers today than banks, which are typically well-defended against theft... Cryptocurrency wallets.