Adversarial SQL Injection Generation with LLM-Based Architectures

SQL injection SQLi attacks are still one of the serious attacks ranked in the Open Worldwide Application Security Project OWASP Top 10 threats. Today, with advances in Artificial Intelligence AI, especially in Large Language Models LLMs, an opportunity has been created for automating adversarial...

Prompt Injection 2.0: Hybrid AI Threats

Prompt injection attacks, where malicious input is designed to manipulate AI systems into ignoring their original instructions and following unauthorized commands instead, were first discovered by Preamble, Inc. in May 2022 and responsibly disclosed to OpenAI. Over the last three years, these...

Exploit for CVE-2023-5561

CVE-2023-5561-POC-Updated This repository contains a modified...

PT-2025-14377 · Express +2 · Express +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: React Router versions 7.0.0 through 7.4.0 Remix versions 2.11.1 and later, prior to 2.16.3 Description: The issue allows anyone to spoof the URL used in an incoming Request by putting a URL pathname in the port section of a URL that is part o...

nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling via Content Length Obfuscation

An HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability was found in Node.js due to Content-Length Obfuscation in the HTTP server. Malformed headers, particularly if a space is inserted before a content-length header, can result in HTTP request smuggling. This flaw allows attackers to inject a second request...

Demystifying a Common Cybersecurity Myth

One of the most common misconceptions in file upload cybersecurity is that certain tools are "enough" on their own—this is simply not the case. In our latest whitepaper OPSWAT CEO and Founder, Benny Czarny, takes a comprehensive look at what it takes to prevent malware threats in today's...

2022 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

SUMMARY The following cybersecurity agencies coauthored this joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA: United States: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, National Security Agency NSA, and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Australia: Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyb...

Information stealer compromises legitimate sites to attack other sites

Security researchers at Akamai have published a blog about a new Magecart-alike web skimming campaign that uses compromised legitimate sites as command and control C2 servers. A web skimmer is a piece of malicious code embedded in web payment pages to steal personally identifiable information PII...

Lack of Visibility: The Challenge of Protecting Websites from Third-Party Scripts

Third-party apps such as Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, HotJar, and JQuery have become critical tools for businesses to optimize their website performance and services for a global audience. However, as their importance has grown, so has the threat of cyber incidents involving unmanaged third-part...

Researchers Detail New Attack Method to Bypass Popular Web Application Firewalls

A new attack method can be used to circumvent web application firewalls WAFs of various vendors and infiltrate systems, potentially enabling attackers to gain access to sensitive business and customer information. Web application firewalls are a key line of defense to help filter, monitor, and...

A Search for API Security in the Operator’s Tool Box

Much has been written about modern application security tools and solutions from the provider’s perspective about their functionality and security features. When I was asked to write a blog about API Gateways and API Security, I felt it may be more useful to think about the subject from the user’...

WAF-A-MoLE - A Guided Mutation-Based Fuzzer For ML-based Web Application Firewalls

A guided mutation-based fuzzer for ML-based Web Application Firewalls, inspired by AFL and based on the FuzzingBook by Andreas Zeller et al. Given an input SQL injection query, it tries to produce a semantic invariant query that is able to bypass the target WAF. You can use this tool for assessin...

Securing REST with free API Firewall How-to guide

In our modern world, web applications are becoming ever more important. Bad actors know this and they target them more frequently than ever before. This is not likely to stop any time soon as the number of web applications the world needs will only go up with its reliance on technology. To fully...

Securing REST with free API Firewall. How-to guide

In our modern world, web applications are becoming ever more important. Bad actors know this and they target them more frequently than ever before. This is not likely to stop any time soon as the number of web applications the world needs will only go up with its reliance on technology. To fully...

Akamai Recognized as 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls

Akamai has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls for the second time. Gartner defines web application firewalls WAFs as "solutions designed to protect web applications and APIs from a variety of attacks, including automated bots, injection and...

Akamai Recognized as 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls

Akamai has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls for the second time...

Why WAFs can’t catch VMware CVE-2021-21972 Remote Code Execution Exploit?

The recent critical security issue in VMware vCenter was discovered this January and fixed on February 23rd . The exploit looks like a simple JSP shell upload, but for some reason, its a blind spot for Web Application Firewalls WAFs. Lets understand why. The CVE-2021-21972 affects vCenter version...

Akamai Identified as a Leader in DDoS Mitigation by Forrester

This week, Akamai was again recognized as a Leader in the latest The Forrester Wave™: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q1 2021. Akamai has also been recognized by Forrester as a Leader in its most recent The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020, The Forrester New...

Imperva is a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Web Application Firewalls, Q1

Web application firewalls continue to be a core technology function for securing critical assets, and for IT professionals, market analyst reports and validation are critical when deciding upon new WAF solutions. That’s why we’re proud to share that Imperva Cloud WAF has recently been recognized ...

March 2020 -- What's New in Security, Part 1

Welcome to Akamai's March 2020 Release! This release offers a week of product updates, with each day highlighting continued innovations across a different area of Akamai's product portfolio: Monday and Tuesday feature two days of security updates. There's a lot going on in Akamai's security...