Researchers Uncover Classiscam Scam-as-a-Service Operations in Singapore

A sophisticated scam-as-a-service operation dubbed Classiscam has now infiltrated into Singapore, more than 1.5 years after expanding to Europe. "Scammers posing as legitimate buyers approach sellers with the request to purchase goods from their listings and the ultimate aim of stealing payment...

[The Lost Bots] Season 2, Episode 2: The Worst and Best Hollywood Cybersecurity Depictions

!\The Lost Bots\ Season 2, Episode 2: The Worst and Best Hollywood Cybersecurity Depictionshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/07/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png Welcome back to The Lost Bots! In this episode, our hosts Jeffrey Gardner, Detection and Response D&R Practice Advisor, and Stephe...

CVE-2022-31168

Zulip is an open source team chat tool. Due to an incorrect authorization check in Zulip Server 5.4 and earlier, a member of an organization could craft an API call that grants organization administrator privileges to one of their bots. The vulnerability is fixed in Zulip Server 5.5. Members who...

CVE-2022-31168 Zulip Server insufficient authorization for changing bot roles

Zulip is an open source team chat tool. Due to an incorrect authorization check in Zulip Server 5.4 and earlier, a member of an organization could craft an API call that grants organization administrator privileges to one of their bots. The vulnerability is fixed in Zulip Server 5.5. Members who...

Mantis Botnet Behind the Largest HTTPS DDoS Attack Targeting Cloudflare Customers

The botnet behind the largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack in June 2022 has been linked to a spate of attacks aimed at nearly 1,000 Cloudflare customers. Calling the powerful botnet Mantis, the web performance and security company attributed it to more than 3,000 HTTP DDoS...

Five Ways the Gaming & Gambling Industry is Targeted by Bad Bots

Let’s play a game of chance: What are the odds that your gaming website is being targeted by bad bots? Imperva research suggests they’re higher than you may think. Imperva’s 2022 Bad Bot Report reveals that 53.9 percent of traffic to gaming and gambling websites comes from bad bots. With the...

Buys/sells will be front-run by MEV bots

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Since the value of the vault depends on the Bancor formula, it's important that transactions can't be front-run, because doing so, even for small amounts, will change the valuation price for subsequent buys/sells. The link the sponsor provided describes...

Bots Are Scalping Israeli Government Services

Bots can be used for good, but can also be nefarious. In this post, see Akamai's research on the Israeli Gamken bot copycat...

Bots Are Scalping Israeli Government Services

Bots can be used for good, but can also be nefarious. In this post, see Akamai's research on the Israeli Gamken bot copycat...

Natural Language Processing and “Mindful” AI Drive More Sophisticated Bad Bot Attacks

The evolution from human to bot attacks Over the last several years of my career in cyber security, I have been fortunate to work with professionals who researched and developed new cyber security detection and prevention solutions that block high-end cyber attacks. Initially, these attacks were...

CVE-2022-1801

The Very Simple Contact Form WordPress plugin before 11.6 exposes the solution to the captcha in the rendered contact form, both as hidden input fields and as plain text in the page, making it very easy for bots to bypass the captcha check, rendering the page a likely target for spam bots...

CVE-2022-1801

The Very Simple Contact Form WordPress plugin before 11.6 exposes the solution to the captcha in the rendered contact form, both as hidden input fields and as plain text in the page, making it very easy for bots to bypass the captcha check, rendering the page a likely target for spam bots...

Authentication flaw

The Very Simple Contact Form WordPress plugin before 11.6 exposes the solution to the captcha in the rendered contact form, both as hidden input fields and as plain text in the page, making it very easy for bots to bypass the captcha check, rendering the page a likely target for spam bots...

CVE-2022-1801 Very Simple Contact Form < 11.6 - Captcha bypass

The Very Simple Contact Form WordPress plugin before 11.6 exposes the solution to the captcha in the rendered contact form, both as hidden input fields and as plain text in the page, making it very easy for bots to bypass the captcha check, rendering the page a likely target for spam bots...

PT-2022-14124 · WordPress · Very Simple Contact Form

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Very Simple Contact Form WordPress plugin versions prior to 11.6 Description: The issue allows bots to bypass the captcha check by exposing the solution in the rendered contact form as hidden input fields and plain text, making the page a...

Evasive Bots Drive Online Fraud – 2022 Imperva Bad Bot Report

The 2022 Imperva Bad Bot Report is now available. The report is the ninth annual in-depth analysis of bot traffic, created with data collected from Impervas global network throughout the past year by the Imperva Threat Research Team. Bad bots are software applications that run automated tasks wit...

Arbitrage Bots Could Extract Value From Buyer of Call Options

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Arbitrage bots could monitor the Cally contract and the price of the underlying asset being auctioned for all vaults that have outstanding call options, and whenever the underlying asset price rises above the strike price of the outstanding call option,...

Potential Sandwich Attack: Arbitrage bots can front run reward tokens being sent to the liquidity mining contracts

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact For the PARMiner and DemandMiner contracts, arbitrage bots could harvest significant portion of rewards by monitoring MEV, and front run any reward token either a.mimo or par being transferred to the liquidityMining contract i.e. call the deposit functio...

4 Bad Bots Likely to Cause Problems for the Remainder of 2022

A short primer on internet bots An Internet bot bot, for short is a software application that runs automated tasks over the internet. Bots typically run simple tasks which they can perform at a dramatically greater rate than any human. Beneficial or anodyne bots are characterized as legitimate, o...

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...