New Imperva Office & Customer Experience Centre Aims to Meet the Needs of Customers In Singapore & Across Asia Pacific and Japan

Since 2009, Imperva has proudly maintained offices in various countries across the Asia Pacific and Japan APJ region. As the company experiences momentum in this region, we continue to invest in expanding our presence to better support our valued customers, wherever they’re located in APJ. This...

CVE-2023-26360 – Adobe ColdFusion Arbitrary Code Execution

On March 14, 2023, Adobe released a security advisory affecting Adobe ColdFusion versions 2021 and 2018. The vulnerability was categorized as improper access control, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution. The exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction. No PoC has be...

Two-Week ATO Attack Mitigated by Imperva

Beginning on February 7, an Imperva-protected account was targeted by an ongoing account takeover ATO attack that lasted for two weeks. On average, attacks last a few hours or a couple days at most, so the length of this attack was an anomaly and underscores the persistence of the attackers. As a...

Imperva recognized as a Strong Performer in Forrester Wave: Data Security Platforms, Q1 2023

The Forrester Wave evaluated the largest end-to-end providers of data security capabilities across a wide range of functionality to enable controls to enforce data security policies for both structured and unstructured data. In this report, Forrester provides an assessment of the top vendors in t...

Imperva Announces Joining the EDB GlobalConnect Technology Partner Program and Certification of Imperva’s DSF Agents to Support EDB Postgres Advanced Server and Community PostgreSQL Databases

It’s official, Imperva has joined the EnterpriseDB EDB GlobalConnect Technology Partner Program. While Imperva has supported and protected the EDB Postgres Advanced Server and community PostgreSQL databases, it is now an EDB Certified security solution. Imperva’s Data Security Fabric DSF agents a...

Imperva releases its Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report 2023

The 2023 Imperva Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report reviews DDoS attack activity throughout 2022, provides insights into the year’s most noteworthy DDoS events, and offers recommendations for the year ahead. While the report focuses mainly on research data from the application and network DDoS...

Hospitals Hit by DDoS Attacks as Killnet Group Targets the Healthcare Sector – What You Need to do Now

The increase in DDoS attacks on healthcare organizations in the US in the last 48 hours by the Pro-Russian hacktivist group Killnet has become a serious concern. These types of attacks are designed to overload a network or system with traffic, making it difficult or impossible for users to access...

Everything You Need To Know About The Latest Imperva Online Fraud Prevention Feature Release

It’s a new year and we have lots of fresh features for Imperva Online Fraud Prevention solution, which encompasses Advanced Bot Protection, Account Takeover Protection, and Client-Side Protection. We have been busy adding a host of new advanced fraud detection and prevention capabilities as well ...

ManageEngine Vulnerability CVE-2022-47966

Recently, Zoho ManageEngine released a security advisory for CVE-2022-47966, which allows for pre-authentication remote code execution in at least 24 ManageEngine products, including ADSelfService Plus and ServiceDesk Plus. This vulnerability stems from the products’ use of an outdated Apache...

Google Chrome “SymStealer” Vulnerability: How to Protect Your Files from Being Stolen

The Imperva Red Team recently disclosed a vulnerability, dubbed CVE-2022-3656, affecting over 2.5 billion users of Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. This vulnerability allowed for the theft of sensitive files, such as crypto wallets and cloud provider credentials. Introduction Chrome is...

81% Increase in Large-Volume DDoS Attacks

Since 2021, distributed denial of service DDoS attacks have trended upwards, both in volume and frequency. Layer 7 DDoS attacks of at least 500,000 requests per second RPS increased 81% in the past year. In addition to greater frequency, attack sizes were larger in 2022 than in 2021. The largest...

Abusing JSON-Based SQL

Overview Modern databases, such as PostgreSQL, natively support JSON as data values that can be queried. This capability uses JSON-specific operators, including an operator to test for key presence. Imperva Threat Research has investigated these database native JSON operators and discovered...

Log4j: One Year Later

One year ago, the Log4j remote code execution vulnerability known as Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228 was announced. The critical severity level vulnerability in a logging framework used across virtually all Java environments quickly set the internet on fire when it was released and exploited. It’s...

The Global DDoS Threat Landscape – November 2022

Every month in this space, we will post the Global DDoS Threat Landscape blog on behalf of the Imperva Threat Research team. As DDoS attacks continue to pose a significant risk to businesses, it is critical that we regularly communicate our Threat Research team’s findings to help the cybersecurit...

How DevOps can protect cloud applications from cyberattacks

Many organizations today are moving away from centralized on-prem operations and towards highly scalable cloud solutions such as Amazon’s AWS Lambda functionality. This provides cost-saving benefits and reduces the overall management of an enterprise tech stack. Cloud computing architecture also...

The Global DDoS Threat Landscape – October 2022

Every month in this space, we will post the Global DDoS Threat Landscape blog on behalf of the Imperva Threat Research team. As DDoS attacks continue to pose a significant risk to businesses it is critical that we regularly communicate our Threat Research team’s findings to help the cybersecurity...

Apache Commons Text vulnerability CVE-2022-42889

Updated Oct. 19, 2022 CVE-2022-42889 was recently added to the NVD catalog, with a critical score of 9.8. This vulnerability allows remote code execution RCE in Apache Commons Text. It affects version numbers 1.5-1.9, and an upgrade to Apache Commons Text 1.10.0 disables the problem by default...

A Recap of Released Features in Q3 for Imperva’s Online Fraud Prevention Solution

Advanced Bot Protection Earlier this year, Imperva was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Bot Management, Q2 2022. Advanced Bot Protection ABP ranked at the top in the current offering category, based on criteria including the range of supported use cases, bot detection, configuration and...

7 Ways Imperva Solutions Reduce the Cost of Data Security

As we push into Q4, economic uncertainty caused by rising interest rates, as-yet unchecked inflation, and a bear market is driving many enterprises to buck the trend and tighten cyber security budgets for the last three months of 2022. The result is increased pressure to achieve data security whi...

Talking to our Team about Cybersecurity Careers, on Ada Lovelace Day

Today’s Ada Lovelace Day, and this is a time to highlight the achievements of women in technology, engineering, science, and mathematics, and to encourage girls and women to pursue careers in STEM. Imperva Enterprise Account Managers, Leanora Weaver and Rebecca Kelly, both members of the Imperva...