Bad bot activity on sports betting websites rises during Euro 2020

Across Europe, the EURO 2020 tournament captivated fans over the past month, with Italy ultimately defeating England to take home the cup on July 11. As fans eagerly watched the matches, Imperva Research Labs was busy monitoring activity that wasn’t happening on the playing field -- but across a...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in omeka/omeka-s

✍️ Description Stored xss bug using a xss payload in the Title when adding a new site. the xss is getting executed when you are trying to delete the website, see the PoC for details. 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept Goto http://localhost/omeka/omeka-s/admin/site and click on add new site copy paste the...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in leantime/leantime

✍️ Description Stored xss bug using a xss payload in the Hypothesis when adding a new Research 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept Goto http://localhost/leancanvas/simpleCanvas and click on add new and copy paste the following xss payload javascript " Click on safe and see the xss popup with the cookie. 💥...

jSonar to Begin a New Chapter in Collaboration

A message from JSonar co-founder and CTO, Ron Bennatan. My wife complains that I’m a boring person. I’ve been doing the same thing for 25 years now – databases, then security, then database security, then data security and then some data lake security. But by that account Tom Brady is a boring...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in devcode-it/openstamanager

✍️ Description Stored xss through file upload via anagrafiche 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept Go to an existing Anagrafiche or create a new one. Upload a .svg file with the following content: javascript alertdocument.cookie; give a name you want ending with .svg store-xss.svg for example. when you click on...

Infographic: Bad Bot Sophistication Levels

All bad bots interact with applications in the same way a legitimate user would, making them harder to detect and block. They enable high-speed abuse, misuse, and attacks on your websites, mobile apps, and APIs. They allow bot operators, attackers, unsavory competitors, and fraudsters to perform ...

Infographic: How Do You Stop Bad Bots?

According to Imperva’s Bad Bot Report 2021, bad bot traffic has maintained its upwards trend, amounting to 25.6 percent of all traffic in 2020, an all-time high. Combined with good bot traffic, 40.8 percent of internet traffic in 2020 wasn’t human, as human traffic decreased by 5.7 percent to 59....

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 4, Trends in Average Volumes of Stolen Records

Imperva research shows an increase in the volume of data stolen every year. In 2020, we started to see more and more breaches that exfiltrate records in billions. Based on the analysis of thousands of data breach details published on dbdigest, we made calculations on the raw data and found some...

Imperva delivers mile high performance and protection with new PoPs in Denver and Dublin

We are very pleased to announce that we are extending our global coverage with the addition of two new PoPs points of presence in Denver in the US and Dublin, Ireland. The new PoPs will enhance Imperva’s existing network to provide enhanced protection against distributed denial of service DDoS...

Infographic: What Are Bad Bots Doing?

By now, anyone with even a passing interest in how the Web functions has heard of bots. Most people understand that there are good and bad bots. Legitimate bots like Googlebot, an application used by Google to crawl the Internet and index it for search, and others like it represent tremendous...

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 1, What Specific Types of Data Get Stolen?

As part of Imperva’s Security Labs’ ongoing efforts to monitor and report on the current Application and Data Security Threat landscape, we studied and analyzed over 100 of the largest and best-known data breaches of the last decade. Download the full report, Lessons Learned From Analyzing 100 Da...

Making Diversity and Inclusion a Business Imperative at Imperva

To create meaningful change, you need to be the difference you wish to see in the world. At Imperva, we’re taking meaningful action and investing to create a workplace that brings together all voices, experiences and identities. We recognize that true innovation requires diversity of thought,...

Is It Time to Consider Replacing Your CDN?

Content delivery networks CDNs are the pipelines of the Internet. Working behind the scenes, they are reshaping how information is consumed online, accelerating web traffic, enhancing user experience, and providing every website with the ability to truly go global. As you may imagine, any...

Infographic: How Are Bad Bots Hurting Your Business?

Bad bots are software applications which run automated tasks with malicious intent over the internet. They scrape data from sites without permission in order to reuse it and gain a competitive edge e.g. pricing, inventory levels, proprietary content, etc.. They are used for scalping, the act of...

Imperva’s WAF Gateway 14.4 Protects Enterprises for the Post-COVID Era

Whether it’s called the New Normal or Next Normal era, COVID-19 has impacted all businesses worldwide and accelerated their digital transformation initiatives during this new post-pandemic era. Whether it’s from a recent retail trend like omnichannel commerce or a newly defined, post-COVID practi...

Why Geek Pride Day is Something to be Proud Of

It’s fair to say that the majority of us who work in cybersecurity are ‘of a certain mindset’. There’s something that comes with the culture and tradition of personal computing, coding, and data that fosters an interest in elements of geek counter culture. Happy to wear our fandoms, obsessions, a...

Imperva® Offers Free Serverless Protection for AWS Lambda

Just as other instant computing infrastructures have done in the past, Function-as-a-Service FaaS now enables DevOps teams to deploy applications more efficiently at a fraction of the cost. AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services’ AWS serverless approach to infrastructure, enables companies to go-to-mark...

Fast, Effective N-grams Extraction and Analysis with SQL

Features extraction is expensive, especially when dealing with big data. That’s why it’s great when you have the ability to preprocess close to the database - the data stays in the DB and doesn’t have to move out, unless necessary. One common approach for text data representation is N-grams...

Sun Life Financial Turns to Imperva to Stop Vulnerabilities and Zero-Day Threats In Application Development Environments

Canadian financial services company saves time and money by relying on Imperva Runtime Protection RASP Sun Life Financial, a Canadian financial services company, discovered a critical vulnerability in nearly 600 of their WebLogic servers in production. With so much at risk, the financial firm...

Imperva® Opens the first dedicated DDoS scrubbing center in Santiago, Chile

Imperva is excited to be further expanding our presence in Latin America by launching a new Point of Presence PoP in Santiago, Chile, in partnership with leading Chilean Telecommunications provider Entel Corporations. Located within Entel’s gold-standard Ciudad de Los Valles datacenter, which has...