Over 4 million mobile apps (Android and iOS combined) are available to download. A majority of those apps store and process confidential user information such as contact number, email, age, gender, banking details, etc. No wonder mobile apps are one of the most lucrative and sought-after targets for hackers, and app fraud volumes are expected to double by 2026.
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ChatGPT, the public generative AI that came out in late November 2022, has raised legitimate concerns about its potential to amplify the severity and complexity of cyberthreats. In fact, as soon as OpenAI announced its release many security experts predicted that it would only be a matter of time before attackers started using this AI chatbot to craft malware or even augment phishing attacks.
Everybody’s doing it: shifting applications to the cloud. More flexibility. More storage. More scalability. But how does this affect application security? What challenges does it present?
Cloud environments, in all their dynamic complexity, demand careful monitoring by DevOps and security teams. But the sheer abundance of telemetry data associated with the thousands of resources, users, and roles that comprise these environments can make monitoring a formidable task, causing security risks and other issues to be all too easily overlooked.
Since the beginning of 2023, Snyk has documented around 6800 malicious packages across PyPI and the npm registry, which requires little to no interaction, almost 860 of which were discovered by us.
According to the AV-TEST Institute, more than 1 billion strains of malware have been created, and more than 500,00 new pieces of malware are detected every day. One of the main reasons for this rapid growth is that malware creators frequently reuse source code. They modify existing malware to meet the specific objectives of an attack campaign or to avoid signature-based detection.
In late 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) chat and conversational bots garnered large followings and user bases. AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Meta’s Blender Bot3 and DeepMind, and Google’s Sparrow, have numerous benefits and uses, including potentially replacing current search engines, but there are notable drawbacks.
I’m excited to share the latest evidence of Salt leadership in API security, with two powerful tributes. First – Salt Security has been honored as winning the “Peace of Mind” category during the first-ever Ally Technology Partner Awards! Ally Financial, the nation’s largest digital-only bank and leading auto finance company, highlighted five suppliers for their outstanding service excellence across a broad array of criteria.
