How to Protect Your SaaS from Bot Attacks with SafeLine WAF

Most SaaS teams remember the day their user traffic started growing fast. Few notice the day bots started targeting them. On paper, everything looks great: more sign-ups, more sessions, more API calls. But in reality, something feels off: Sign-ups increase, but users aren’t activating. Server cos...

Black Friday 2025 in Review: What Retailers Need to Know About This Year’s Holiday Shopping Season

Holiday shopping season is in full swing, and Black Friday 2025 continued to demonstrate that consumer demand and attacker activity shows no signs of slowing. According to Adobe Analytics, U.S. consumers spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, setting a new record and highlighting sustained...

Top Tool Capabilities to Prevent AI-Powered Attacks

Recent advances in AI technologies have granted organizations and individuals alike unprecedented productivity, efficiency, and operational benefits. AI is, without question, the single most exciting emerging technology in the world. However, it also brings enormous risks. While the dystopian,...

Cyber Threats in Costume: When Attacks Hide Behind a Mask

Introduction As Halloween approaches, the idea of costumes and disguises takes center stage, but the spirit of deception isn’t limited to one night. In the digital world, cyberattacks can also wear masks, concealing their true intentions to slip past defenses. Just as a costume can obscure who’s...

Bad Bots: 6 Common Bot Attacks and Why They Happen

Learn about the different types of bot attacks, why they happen, and how to protect your website from these threats with effective bot mitigation strategies...

Seven Cybersecurity Tips to Protect Your Retail Business This Holiday Season

It’s no secret that the holiday season is the busiest time for online retailers, with sales starting as early as October and stretching until late December. According to the NRF, census data suggests that 2023 holiday sales experienced a 3.8% growth, reaching a record $964.4 billion about $3,000...

Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks Costing Businesses Up to $186 Billion Annually

Organizations are losing between $94 - $186 billion annually to vulnerable or insecure APIs Application Programming Interfaces and automated abuse by bots. That's according to The Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks report from Imperva, a Thales company. The report highlights that these securi...

The Rising Cost of Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks – A $186 Billion Wake-Up Call for Businesses

How much do bot attacks and API insecurity cost organizations? To answer these questions, Imperva engaged the Marsh McLennan Cyber Risk Intelligence Center to analyze incident data related to vulnerable APIs and bot attacks. Imperva’s latest report, “The Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks,"...

Worried About Bot Attacks on B2C APIs? You May Be Missing a Bigger Risk

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68% of US Websites Exposed to Bot Attacks

By Deeba Ahmed The conclusion was reached after researchers evaluated over 9,500 of the largest transactional websites in terms of traffic,… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 68% of US Websites Exposed to Bot Attacks...

What Else Can You Do to Defend Against Bots?

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SWAP TRADES COULD BE EXECUTED AT A LATER POINT IN TIME BY THE MINERS, IF deadline == 0

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The Swapper.swapExactInput external function, has the deadline parameter to control the execution time of the swap transaction. If the block.timestamp has elapsed the deadline given the transaction will revert as per the implementation in the...

Rising Bot Attacks – Why is Your Organization Struggling to Deal with Them?

By Waqas Bot attacks rose by 41% in H1 2021, with the financial services and media industries facing the highest proportion… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Rising Bot Attacks – Why is Your Organization Struggling to Deal with Them?...

US Websites Targeted by 40% of the Bad Bot Traffic Worldwide

Bad bot attacks are often the first indicator of fraudulent activity targeting your website. This activity may be over-the-top, like validating stolen user credentials and credit card information to later be sold on the dark web or scraping proprietary data to gain a competitive advantage. Bot...

Imperva is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management, Q2 2022

We are thrilled to announce that Imperva has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Bot Management, Q2 2022 report – a trusted source for technology buyers that helps security and risk professionals select the right vendor for their needs in a technology marketplace. The report offers a...

Why ATO Attacks Are Attacks on Your Customers

Motivated by the continual surge in eCommerce, which according to UNCTAD has seen unprecedented growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers are scrambling to adapt to a shift in consumer demand and create unique customer experiences that set them apart from the competition. The rise in online...

Massive LinkedIn Phishing, Bot Attacks Feed on the Job-Hungry

Emotionally vulnerable and willing to offer up any information that lands the gig, job seekers are prime targets for social engineering campaigns. And with the “Great Resignation” in full swing, cybercriminals are having an easy time finding their next victim. Just since Feb. 1, analysts have...

New research reveals that one third of all log-in attempts on eCommerce sites are malicious

What do humans and bots have in common? A love for visiting online shopping sites: more than half 57% of all attacks on retail websites in 2021 were carried out by bots, compared to 33% for all other industries. It gets worse: a third of all log-in attempts on retail eCommerce websites are accoun...

Holiday “to-do list” for cybersecurity professionals working in eCommerce

The period from mid-November to the end of the year is always particularly stressful for cybersecurity professionals in the eCommerce space. It seems like every hacker and cyber criminal on earth is trying even harder to steal customers’ data or stop digital business operations. And the reason it...

Benefits of Building a Multi-prong Mousetrap for WAF Policies with ML

The reason behind buying a market-leading Web Application Firewall WAF is to protect your website and web applications from malicious attacks, plus complying with industry or regional data and privacy standards. In addition to the typical OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, WAFs need to address a litan...