How Cache Purge Helps Keep Your Website Content Fresh and Responsive

Content Delivery Networks CDNs accelerate web traffic across the internet through servers residing in strategic locations known as points of presence or PoPs across the globe. Each PoP has a number of caching servers, each of which contains a cached version of your website or application. By...

Imperva Offers New Features to Simplify PCI DSS Compliance

The Silent Threat of Client-Side Attacks As more transactions move online, a silent threat is lurking in the deepest, darkest shadows of websites, threatening to steal your sensitive data. This rapidly evolving threat, known as client-side attacks such as Magecart, formjacking, and online skimmin...

Six paths to a job in cybersecurity

Like many high-tech businesses, the cybersecurity industry is facing a widening skills gap. One of the main reasons why many companies do not have effective data security practices is the lack of actual skilled cybersecurity practitioners. In a November 2019 report, the International Information...

A Few Hours After the Publication: Dozens of Scanning Attempts for Vulnerable PHP Servers

On March 28th the official PHP Git repository was compromised in order to open a backdoor into many web servers. The attackers were able to gain access to the PHP official main Git server, uploading two malicious commits, including a backdoor. The malicious commits were discovered a few hours...

The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Widening the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

While there are undoubtedly many major challenges within the world of cybersecurity, one of the principal roadblocks to the implementation of effective data security is the lack of skilled cybersecurity practitioners. In a November 2019 report, the International Information System Security...

Surge in online traffic increases risk to businesses

Imperva Research Labs has been monitoring the data across our thousands of customers since the outbreak of COVID-19. In reviewing anonymized data from our CyberThreat Index, we see new risks and several initial security implications from this pandemic for our customers and global businesses. We...

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...

Abusing JSON-Based SQL

Overview Modern databases, such as PostgreSQL, natively support JSON as data values that can be queried. This capability uses JSON-specific operators, including an operator to test for key presence. Imperva Threat Research has investigated these database native JSON operators and discovered...

13 Cybersecurity Horror Stories to Give you Sleepless Nights

Are we sitting comfortably? Twas a dark and stormy night, and the cybersecurity team stood patiently in their Scrum meeting. “Tell us a tale,” the CISO said, and one of their number raised their hand. They caught the eye of their colleagues, and began… 1. An artists tale Curious reader, gird thy...

How to mitigate security vulnerabilities automatically with RASP

In a world where DevOps is oiling the wheels of accelerated software development, it’s hardly surprising that automation, code re-use and third-party libraries are integral parts of our high-speed app development cycle. But what happens when the pace of development outstrips security? Or when the...

Shorter, sharper DDoS attacks are on the rise – and attackers are sidestepping traditional mitigation approaches

Imagine that your network is under attack. A couple of minutes ago, you detected a large burst of traffic, out of nowhere. Now it’s in excess of 60 Gbps, and overwhelming your network. Your mitigation service hasn’t picked up the attack yet, and you’re just about to take a closer look when it sto...

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...

Web Scraping: The Fine Line Between Business Intelligence and Data Privacy Violation. Is it Legal?

Web Scraping is the use of automated software also known as bots to extract content and data from a website. It is also classified by the OWASP as an automated threat OAT-011. Web Scraping differs from Screen Scraping in that it can extract underlying HTML code and data that is stored in database...

How bad bots are targeting the healthcare sector

Credential cracking, or password spraying, is one of the most effective ways for cybercriminals to get access to user accounts. It refers to the brute-force automated cracking, or pairing of usernames and passwords by using sophisticated high-speed bots. According to a National Cyber Awareness...

Making Compliance and Risk Part of DevOps – 2020 Trend #4

In our 2020 Trends blog, Imperva CTO Kunal Anand predicts that fully automated processes will make compliance more rapid and less expensive. As businesses incorporate security into software development lifecycles SDLC, continuous integration-continuous deployment CICD processes will reduce risk a...

Cloud Transformation – 2020 Trend #1

The Imperva team is closing out 2019 with a series on the cybersecurity trends we predict will shape the landscape in 2020. Last week, Imperva CTO Kunal Anand mined insights from our global customer base and our research team, Imperva Research Labs, to come up with his top five list of...

72 Hours: Understanding the GDPR Data Breach Reporting Timeline

We're down to the wire with respect to the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR compliance deadline of May 25, 2018. Organizations that fail to comply could face fines of up to €20M roughly $22M or 4 percent of their annual global turnover from the prior year and we’ll soon see just how EU...

Addressing Data Across Borders for the GDPR

Most enterprises today do business across the globe, have databases in multiple countries and DBAs or users in different regions who have access to those databases. With GDPR mandating privacy requirements for personal data of European Union EU residents and visitors, it is important for an...

CVE-2025-54068 Laravel Livewire Credential Theft Campaign: 6,000+ Applications Compromised

Introduction On May 24, 2026, Imperva observed exploitation attempts against Laravel Livewire applications, blocked by the Imperva Cloud WAF. What initially appeared to be unremarkable deserialization attack traffic turned out to be part of a large-scale credential theft operation exploiting...

Imperva Defends Against Targeted Exploits Used By APT29 Hackers

Recently, U.S. and U.K. cyber agencies have warned of a renewed wave of attacks led by Russian APT29 hackers. These sophisticated threat actors have been actively exploiting vulnerabilities in Zimbra Collaboration Suite and JetBrains TeamCity, specifically CVE-2022-27924 and CVE-2023-42793, to...

How can we Prevent an Internet of Compromised Things?

The shape of things to come An increasing array of physical household and business objects now come with a plethora of sensors, software, and processing abilities, connecting to like-minded devices and swapping data with additional systems via the internet or across networks. These objects and...

Gain Control of Rapidly Securing Your Critical APIs Without Worrying About Your Backend Stack

Imagine trying to protect your web application farm, while needing to integrate with all the different web servers backend stacks on a one-to-one basis. This requires a WAF that understands systems such as Nginx, Apache, IIS, and Tomcat. You will effectively start a project that will never end du...

At Kong Summit 2022, Imperva Will Demonstrate how to Use Terraform to Onboard Kong-managed Apps and Discover API Endpoints

Imperva and Kong are working together to simplify APIs Imperva is attending Kong’s 2022 Summit on September 28 and 29 in San Francisco. Imperva’s Summit booth will feature both a recorded and live demo built to showcase how Kong and Imperva seamlessly integrate using Terraform. Imperva, a...

Top Challenges to Implementing Data Privacy: Nailing Down Discovery and Classification First is Key

Why Discover and Classify is so critical Ice hockey goal-scoring great Wayne Gretzky is reported to have said, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” The data security version of this quip is “you protect zero percent of the data you can’t see” and the data privacy version is “if you...

Imperva Introduces New Features to Help Prevent Online Fraud

As we move more of our daily activities and the services we consume online, the threat of fraud grows, and the risks become greater. Data suggests the majority of organizations are already detecting a rise in online fraud. In a recent survey of senior risk executives, 67 percent said that their...

Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection

In July, Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection, and one of the largest DDoS attacks so far in 2021. The attack lasted for 40 minutes and generated a massive throughput of 1.02 terabytes per second Tbps and 155 million packets per second Mpps. Imperva also mitigated...

How a DDoS Attack on an Internet Service Provider Can Paralyze Critical Infrastructure

The motivation behind Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks is often unknown. In some cases it might be cyber-vandalism, causing disruption for disruption’s sake. In other cases it might be down to hactivism, reaction to a cause or an event. And while DDoS attacks on business enterprises can...

Virtual Hackathon Generates Next Generation of Imperva Innovation

“How do we run a global hackathon amid a global pandemic?” That was my first thought when I began planning the 2020 Imperva Hackathon earlier this year. While the event is designed to foster innovation and uncover new ideas, in a global company like ours it’s also about making new friends and...

Will AI Change the Role of Cybersecurity?

Mention artificial intelligence AI and security and a lot of people think of Skynet from The Terminator movies. Sure enough, at a recent Bay Area Cyber Security Meetup group panel on AI and machine learning, it was moderator Alan Zeichick – technology analyst, journalist and speaker – who first...

Three Ways to Use Data Classification Scan Results

In July we launched Classifier, a free data classification tool that allows you to quickly and easily uncover sensitive data in your databases. Since its launch, the tool has been widely used around the globe, which comes as no surprise given the heightened focus on data protection. Furthermore,...

Challenges of Insider Threat Detection – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

Insider threat detection and containment of insider threats requires an expert understanding of both users and how they use and access enterprise data. In our first Whiteboard Wednesday, Drew Schuil, Vice President of Global Product Strategy at Imperva, talks about the challenges of insider threa...

Database Activity Monitoring: A Do’s and Don’ts Checklist for DBAs

In a previous post, we looked at the limitations of native audit, the free tool often used by database administrators DBAs for logging database activity. While it has its appeal—it’s already part of the database server and does not require additional cost for third-party appliances or...

Imperva customers are protected against the recent GoAnywhere MFT vulnerability CVE-2024-0204

Recently, Fortra released a security advisory for CVE-2024-0204, a GoAnywhere MFT authentication bypass vulnerability. This bug allows an unauthenticated attacker to create an administrative user by exploiting an InitialAccountSetup.xhtml endpoint–accessible via path traversal–to initiate the...

Applying Data Ontology Concepts to Protect Data

Data breaches continue to be the thorn for most organizations despite the sophisticated and innovative cybersecurity tools that are used to stop what is now the inevitable cost of doing business in a hyperconnected world. In this blog post, I’ll explain how organizations can increase the...

Anonymous Sudan, MOVEit, and Cl0p

There are three concurrent events of significant concern: 1. An Anonymous Sudan group chat on Telegram has revealed imminent threats from Russia to the US financial system, specifically targeting the SWIFT network. The motive behind this attack is disruption. By attacking SWIFT and inducing...

Imperva and Kong Partner to Bring API Security to the Gateway for Enhanced API Management

Imperva is delighted to announce a new partnership with Kong Inc, provider of the leading cloud-native API platform, to offer best-in-class API Security to users of the Kong platform. Through the new partnership, Kong Enterprise customers can protect their business applications and data by...

Deanonymizing OpenSea NFT Owners via Cross-Site Search Vulnerability

TLDR Recently, a cross-site search vulnerability was discovered affecting the popular NFT marketplace OpenSea. When successfully exploited, this issue allows for the deanonymization of OpenSea users by linking an IP address, a browser session, or an email in certain conditions to a specific...

6 ways cybersecurity teams can save time and money

The phrase “time is money”, originally attributed to Benjamin Franklin, reprimands the slothful for wasting their working hours. As one of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin clearly never worked a day in cybersecurity. This is an area where fresh blood is hard to find to...

Why now is the time to make database security a priority

Today, fast-growing organizations are generating data at a breakneck pace, and building up diverse database environments in order to store and share data more effectively. While these activities are the sign of a thriving business, governing and securing all this data rarely meets the pace of new...

Questions to Ask Your Application Security Provider

There is a great deal to consider when evaluating application security providers. Understanding your goals will help. If your goal is vendor consolidation, then selecting those that offer multiple security capabilities over single products may make more sense. And if your goal is out-of-the-box...

Software Supply Chain Attacks: From Formjacking to Third Party Code Changes

2020 wasn’t the first year in which software supply chain attacks caused major damage, but it certainly brought them to the general public. Much has been said about the headline-grabbing nation state examples, but there is a wide spectrum of these attacks and some are commoditized. Protecting...

Auditing Your Database – Is It Enough For Your Data Security Needs?

Audit trails have been a feature of databases for a long time, but are they still compatible with todays data security demands? What do you need to do, as a security officer, to get the most information about what’s happening to your company’s data? Are audit trail features impregnable to possibl...

Imperva Takes on its Largest Recorded Account Takeover Attack on a Single Company

Imperva recently detected and mitigated the largest - and most concentrated - series of brute force ATO account takeover attacks in its history. Over the course of 60 hours from midnight on October 28, our ATO team’s monitoring systems detected more than 44 million ATO attempts on the login page ...

Why I joined Imperva

I’ve been in the cybersecurity industry for a couple of decades now, and the tech industry even longer. If there’s one thing I’ve learned across all my roles, it’s the value of focusing on customer experience. It sounds intuitive, right? I’m sure many of you are nodding your heads or giving me th...

How to Protect Holiday Shoppers from Bots and Scammers

It’s the most wonderful time of year for gift card scammers. With Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holidays just around the corner, consumers will spend billions on gift cards for hard-to-shop-for friends, family, and colleagues. Imperva VP Tiffany Olson Kleemann was interviewed on Good Morning...

A Web-Driven World Needs Better Web Security

Web interfaces are everywhere. From social media sites to online shopping portals to your CRM, the humble web interface is now used to access much of the online world. So, it isn’t difficult to see why web applications are a prime target for cybercriminals. Because they’re used by customers and...

Stronger Together, Red Hat 3scale Integration

Most enterprises today rely on customers accessing their applications to conduct daily business. These enterprises know by now that application programming interfaces APIs are becoming more common than ever before to enable communication between applications and end users. Even though they are...

Fortnite Scammers Approaching $1m in Annual Takings

When something seems too good to be true, it probably is. It’s a hard lesson to learn and, in this case, one that’s being taught by scammers. The perpetrators are abusing the fact that online players of Battle Royale games may be very eager to get free in-game currency and items, and are willing ...

Three Reasons Why GDPR Encourages Pseudonymization

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR is the European Union’s new data regulation designed to provide individuals with rights and protections over their personal data that is collected or created by businesses or government entities. It unifies data protection regulation across all member...

Protecting Xero’s Cloud-Based Accounting Platform from Cyber Attacks

Meeting with customers is always insightful, and recently I got a chance to sit down with Aaron McKeown, head of security engineering and architecture at Xero, to talk about how they use Imperva SecureSphere for their cloud-hosted applications. Founded in 2006, Xero provides cloud accounting...