Automated cyber attacks on web applications
New Barracuda investigation: Cyber criminals are increasingly turning to bots and automation to make their attacks more efficient and to avoid detection. Barracuda analyzed a two-month data sample of web application attacks that were blocked by Barracuda systems and found a massive number of automated attacks. The top five attacks were dominated by attacks carried out with automated tools. Almost 20 percent of the attacks discovered were fuzzing attacks in which automation attempts to find and exploit application vulnerabilities. Injection attacks followed with around 12 percent, whereby most of the attackers automated ...