Read: Apache Struts Patches ‘Critical Vulnerability’ CVE-2018-11776

On August 22, Apache Struts released a security patch fixing a critical remote code execution vulnerability. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2018-11776 S2-057 and affects Apache Struts versions 2.3 to 2.3.34 and 2.5 to 2.5.16. The vulnerability was responsibly disclosed by Man Yue Mo fro...

Google Chrome Bug Opens Access to Private Facebook Information

A browser bug in Google Chrome has been discovered that lets bad actors uncover private data stored on Facebook, Google sites and other platforms, by using video and audio HTML tags, and the filtering functions in websites. The bug in question exists in the Blink engine, which is used to power...

Imperva SecureSphere 11.5 / 12.0 / 13.0 - Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Title: Imperva SecureSphere = v13 - Privilege Escalation Author: 0x09AL Tested on: Imperva SecureSphere 11.5,12.0,13.0 Vendor: https://www.imperva.com/ Vulnerability Description There is a program named PCE.py which runs as root and starts a...

SecureSphere 12.0.0.50 SealMode Shell Escape

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule "SecureSphere v12.0.0.50 - SealMode Shell Escape root", 'Description' = %q This module exploits a vulnerability in SecureSphere cli to escape the...

SecureSphere 12.0.0.50 - SealMode Shell Escape (Metasploit)

SecureSphere 12.0.0.50 - SealMode Shell Escape Metasploit This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule "SecureSphere v12.0.0.50 - SealMode Shell Escape root", 'Description' = %q This module...

SecureSphere 12.0.0.50 - SealMode Shell Escape (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule "SecureSphere v12.0.0.50 - SealMode Shell Escape root", 'Description' = %q This module exploits a vulnerability in SecureSphere cli to escape the...

Imperva SecureSphere 12.0.0.50 - SealMode Shell Escape Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule "SecureSphere v12.0.0.50 - SealMode Shell Escape root", 'Description' = %q This module...

Imperva SecureSphere 11.5 / 12.0 / 13.0 Privilege Escalation

Title: Imperva SecureSphere = v13 - Privilege Escalation Author: 0x09AL Date: 01/08/2018 Tested on: Imperva SecureSphere 11.5,12.0,13.0 Vendor: https://www.imperva.com/ Vulnerability Description There is a program named PCE.py which runs as root and starts a unix domain socket listener in...

Imperva SecureSphere 11.5 12.0 13.0 - Privilege Escalation

Imperva SecureSphere 11.5 12.0 13.0 - Privilege Escalation Title: Imperva SecureSphere = v13 - Privilege Escalation Author: 0x09AL Date: 01/08/2018 Tested on: Imperva SecureSphere 11.5,12.0,13.0 Vendor: https://www.imperva.com/ Vulnerability Description There is a program named PCE.py which runs ...

Imperva SecureSphere 11.5 / 12.0 / 13.0 - Privilege Escalation

Title: Imperva SecureSphere = v13 - Privilege Escalation Author: 0x09AL Date: 01/08/2018 Tested on: Imperva SecureSphere 11.5,12.0,13.0 Vendor: https://www.imperva.com/ Vulnerability Description There is a program named PCE.py which runs as root and starts a unix domain socket listener in...

Imperva to Acquire DevOps Security Leader Prevoty

Today, we announced that we entered into an agreement to acquire Prevoty, an innovator and leader in building application security that can block attacks and monitor interactions inside application stacks using DevOps and agile development. I’m incredibly excited that the Prevoty team will join...

Imperva Cloud Security Now Available Through UK Government’s GCloud 10 Digital Marketplace

Building on the success of Imperva listing our market-leading, single stack Incapsula cloud platform for DDOS protection; CDN; load balancing and WAF on the GCloud 9 framework, Imperva has now added more products to the GCloud 10 portfolio. As the UK pushes for even greater digital adoption on a...

Drupal, Phishing and A New Cryptomining Botnet

It’s a well-known fact that security solutions must quickly adapt to new attack methods. There are several ways to achieve this goal, regularly applying security patches and updates, relying on threat intelligence and more. At Imperva, we use pattern anomaly detection as one of the tools to...

Clustering App Attacks with Machine Learning Part 3: Algorithm Results

In the previous blog posts in this series, we discussed the motivation for clustering attacks and the data used and how to calculate the distance between two attacks using different methods on each feature we extracted. In this final blog post, we’ll discuss the clustering algorithm itself – how ...

Auth0 Glitch Allows Attackers to Launch Phishing Attacks

UPDATE Researchers are warning of a glitch in the Auth0 identity-as-a-service offering, which could allow bad actors to spoof a legitimate website and collect sensitive information from visitors. Researchers at Imperva on Tuesday found that the subdomain names of Auth0 are susceptible to security...

Leveraging Imperva Solutions for GDPR Compliance Part II: Pseudonymization

Down to the wire- the GDPR compliance deadline is here. It’s May 25 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR is live. As you know by now, the risk and potential costs associated with a failure to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR are substantial. GDPR...

Five Ways Imperva Attack Analytics Helps You Cut Through the Event Noise

The maddening volume of events security teams have to deal with each day is growing at an exponential pace, making it increasingly difficult to effectively analyze and process credible threats. As more organizations move to cloud-based solutions, applications now reside at multiple locations – on...

Survey: 27 Percent of IT professionals receive more than 1 million security alerts daily

Imagine trying to tackle over one million security alerts in a day. That number is so huge that it may sound like hyperbole, but this is exactly what many security teams face. Dealing with such a high volume of potential threats on a regular basis can quickly lead to alert fatigue. Sure, we expec...

Imperva Python SDK – We’re All Consenting SecOps Here

Managing your WAF can be a complicated task. Custom policies, signatures, application profiles, gateway plugins… there’s a good reason ours is considered the best in the world. Back when security teams were in charge of just a handful of WAF stacks and a few dozen applications, things were...

Want to See What A Live DDoS Attack Looks Like?

We’re fortunate enough to have had Andy Shoemaker, founder of NimbusDDoS, and our own Ofer Gayer chat about DDoS attacks and shed some light on the gaps in many people’s understanding of the threats out there. In a new BrightTALK webinar alongside Imperva Senior Product Manager, Ofer, Andy...