Analysis: A Ransomware Attack on a PostgreSQL Database

In 2017, we reported on a database ransomware campaign targeting MySQL and MongoDB. Since then, we’ve observed similar attack tactics on a PostgreSQL database in Imperva Threat Research lab. In general, the attack flow contained: A brute force attack on the database for known users and weak...

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 Red Team Discovers Vulnerability in TikTok That Can Reveal User Activity and Information

TL;DR The Imperva Red Team discovered a vulnerability in TikTok, a popular social media platform with more than one billion users worldwide, that could allow attackers to monitor users activity on both mobile and desktop devices. This vulnerability, which has now been fixed, was caused by a windo...

Imperva Continues to Innovate With New Features for Online Fraud Prevention

Last year, Imperva embarked on a mission to help organizations combat the growing threat of digital fraud. We introduced a new solution and a range of innovative features to help detect and prevent online fraud at its earliest stages. Imperva Online Fraud Prevention stops fraud ranging from...

The Anatomy of a Scalping Bot: NSB Was Copped!

In recent years, scalping bots have become a growing concern for online retailers. In this two-part blog series, we will analyze the inner workings of the Nike Shoe Bot NSB scalping bot, one of the most dangerous scalping bots around. We will take a closer look at the components of NSB, how we...

Imperva Unveils Latest API Security Enhancements

Imperva is continuing to evolve its API Security offering to help customers better protect their APIs, wherever they are, and to meet changing market requirements. Since launching API Security in March 2022, we continued investing in our API Security offering with the goal of simplifying the...

Hospitals Hit by DDoS Attacks as Killnet Group Targets the Healthcare Sector – What You Need to do Now

The increase in DDoS attacks on healthcare organizations in the US in the last 48 hours by the Pro-Russian hacktivist group Killnet has become a serious concern. These types of attacks are designed to overload a network or system with traffic, making it difficult or impossible for users to access...

Why a “Lift-and-shift” Cloud Migration Strategy Doesn’t Support Data Security

The classic 1982 Steven Spielberg horror film “Poltergeist” chronicles disturbing, unexplained paranormal activity happening in a suburban family’s idyllic home. As the activity becomes more sinister and terrifying, the family learns that their neighborhood was built on an old burial ground. It...

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...

Advanced Bot Protection Handling More Traffic Than Ever

It’s been six months since we launched the Advanced Bot Protection solution as fully integrated into Imperva’s Application Security platform. Previously, the Advanced Bot Protection solution lived on a separate platform, known as the ‘Distil’ platform, from our acquisition of Distil Networks...

Imperva SD-SOC: How Using AI and Time Series Traffic Improves DDoS Mitigation

Much has changed since we first started providing protection against DDoS attacks. Attacks which were once considered huge are now mitigated on a daily basis, attackers are becoming more sophisticated by the day, and mitigation takes a matter of seconds, as opposed to minutes, to kick in. But one...

DDoS Protection for Networks: Combatting Local Preference from ISPs

One of the most common issues we have seen when onboarding customers to our DDoS Protection for Networks service is when a customer’s ISP implements a high local preference. This prevents the Internet from recognizing that Imperva is the best path. Local Preference Local preference is one of the...

Open Banking Around the World

Open Banking, the practice of sharing financial data with competitors and third parties via open APIs, offers many benefits for consumers who not only have more control over their data, but who can now manage their finances much more efficiently. What started with the European Union Payment...

Imperva is a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Web Application Firewalls, Q1

Web application firewalls continue to be a core technology function for securing critical assets, and for IT professionals, market analyst reports and validation are critical when deciding upon new WAF solutions. That’s why we’re proud to share that Imperva Cloud WAF has recently been recognized ...

The AI’ker’s Guide to the (cybersecurity) Galaxy

As a security veteran I find myself from time to time having to explain to newbies the importance of adopting a ‘hacker’s way of thinking’, and the difference between hacker’s and builder’s thinking. If you can’t think like an attacker, how are you going to build solutions to defend against them?...

Imperva Protects Against the Apache Camel Vulnerabilities

Introduction: Understanding the Apache Camel Flaw On March 9, 2025, Apache released a security advisory for CVE-2025-27636, a vulnerability in the Apache Camel framework that allows attackers to bypass header filtering via miscased headers. Although rated as moderate, this vulnerability...

Hacking Microsoft and Wix with Keyboard Shortcuts

Browser vendors continuously tweak and refine browser functionalities to improve security. Implementing same-site cookies is a prime example of vendors’ efforts to mitigate Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF attacks. However, not all security measures are foolproof. In their quest to combat Cross-Si...

DDoS Attacks Leveraged by Attackers in Israel Conflict

Over the last few years, we’ve observed Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks used in many conflicts. In the Russia-Ukraine war, DDoS was used both by government cyber agencies and individual hacktivist groups to disrupt the flow of information and deface sites to promote propaganda. The...

Why Insisting on Complicated Passwords can be a Dangerous Security Practice

According to the Forester Insider Threat report, commissioned by Imperva in 2021, 50% of the companies surveyed plan to increase security awareness among their employees over the next 12 months. Many are already doing so and have solid practices in place. According to the 2022 Ponemon Report on t...

Relay races, batons, and techniques: How to improve your cloud security posture

In 2008, the US 4x100m relay team was the favorite to win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Not a massive surprise, considering that team included the second fastest athlete in history, Tyson Gay. It was a great shock though when the team blundered on the last exchange, dropping the baton,...

Why you need to rethink your data security strategy and go beyond DLP

The increasing frequency and scale of data breaches has highlighted the need for organizations to rethink their approach to data security. Data Loss Prevention DLP technologies have been around for decades and formed a large part of many organizations’ data protection strategies. However, there i...

How to help your DevOps teams become integral to your cybersecurity strategy

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? It’s a classic paradox, but anyone who has witnessed the relationship between SecOps and DevOps teams in any enterprise may have an inkling of how that might unfold. There is nothing new about the contentious relationship between...

Data security is broken: What’s next?

One out of every two on-premises databases globally has at least one vulnerability, finds a new study from Imperva Research Labs spanning 27,000 on-prem databases, based on insights from a proprietary database scanning service introduced by Imperva Innovation five years ago. The question is: why ...

The 4-phase approach smart companies take to mitigate DDoS attacks

Distributed denial of service DDoS attacks have been a significant feature of the cyber threat landscape over the past two decades. The 2021 DDoS Threat Landscape Report reveals that attacks today are constantly evolving in complexity, volume, size, and frequency. The only constant in DDoS attack...

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...

Achieving Product Platform mindset

Imperva has decided to gradually shift to a company-wide Platform mindset in which, instead of having a set of separate products and features, there is a set of capabilities and building blocks upon which the products and features are built. Until now, special Platform teams have developed Platfo...

Imperva Customers Are Protected Against CVE-2025-31161 in CrushFTP

Introduction A critical security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-31161 previously tracked as CVE-2025-2825, has been discovered in CrushFTP versions 10.0.0 through 10.8.3 and 11.0.0 through 11.3.0. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to access unpatched CrushFTP servers if...

Imperva Protects Against Apache Tomcat Deserialization Vulnerability

Overview A newly disclosed vulnerability, CVE-2025-24813, affecting Apache Tomcat, has been identified as a high-risk path equivalence vulnerability that allows attackers to manipulate filenames with internal dots . under specific conditions, leading to unauthorized file access, modification, and...

How Imperva Infused AI Throughout Research and Development

The Age of AI Is Upon Us The current pace of technological change beggars’ belief. Generative Artificial Intelligence GenAI, released to the world a mere two years ago, promises to eliminate much of the tedium of the digital world. Software engineers around the world are already using it to speed...

PCI DSS 4.0.1: New Clarifications on Client-Side Security – What You Need to Know

As a leading provider of web application and API security solutions, Imperva is committed to helping merchants, payment processors, and anyone seeking to comply with the latest PCI DSS requirements. We previously discussed the changes introduced in PCI DSS 4.0. This blog will cover the...

Improving Cybersecurity: Different Certifications Explained

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the choice of cryptographic algorithms and certificates plays a pivotal role in ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information. While traditional methods such as the RSA public-key cryptosystem have been the cornerstone of secu...

Imperva Expands Global Network, Adds First PoP in Vietnam

We are delighted to announce our first Point of Presence PoP in Hanoi, Vietnam, expanding our global network with our 16th PoP located in the Asia Pacific & Japan APJ region. Alongside its rich culture and historic sites, Hanoi, the enchanting capital city of Vietnam, is a bustling business cente...

Understanding Business Logic Abuse and Its Detection Challenges

Digital modernization and automation have been on a rapid trajectory for the last 5 years and were thrust forward at an even faster pace when the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown period took hold in 2020. For businesses and consumers alike this acceleration of advanced technology...

Imperva® and Fortanix Partner to Protect Confidential Customer Data

Imperva Data Security Fabric and Fortanix Data Security Manager combine to provide end-to-end data security. Imperva, Inc., @Imperva the cybersecurity leader that protects critical applications, APIs, and data, anywhere at scale, and Fortanix, Inc. @Fortanix, the Data Security company powered by...

Imperva releases its Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report 2023

The 2023 Imperva Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report reviews DDoS attack activity throughout 2022, provides insights into the year’s most noteworthy DDoS events, and offers recommendations for the year ahead. While the report focuses mainly on research data from the application and network DDoS...

Avoid The (Automated) Nightmare Before Christmas

While Christmas is often seen by most as a joyous time to be spent with family and friends, exchanging good wishes and gifts, there are those who seek to exploit it. For fraudsters, this time of the year is above all, an opportunity for profits to be made, all while wreaking havoc on eCommerce...

How Imperva Mitigates Security Threats in Oracle Cloud Infrastructures

Most organizations today rely on an unprecedented number of computing resources to build, deploy and scale the workflows and applications they need to succeed. They are responsible for more data than ever before, on-premises and in the cloud, which presents them with challenges they’ve never face...

In the Fight Against DDoS Attacks, not all PoPs are Created Equal

A distributed denial of service DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to make an online service unavailable to users, usually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of its hosting server. A DDoS attack is launched from numerous compromised devices, often distributed globally in what ...

How Imperva Data Security Fabric Reduces Splunk Ingestion Costs and Accelerates Incident Management

They say the devil is in the details. This is especially true for security professionals that use Splunk as their organization’s primary security analytics engine. Splunk analytics gives security teams a real-time view of machine data from networks, data centers, or IT environments. Organizations...

RASP: The World Cup’s Last Line of Cyber Defense

No greater sporting event exists that brings the peoples of the world together more effectively than the FIFA World Cup, with the first match kickoff set for Monday, 21 November 2022, in Doha, Qatar, at the Al Bayt stadium in Al Khor. Football fans from all across the globe will pour into the Gul...

Bad bots continue to evolve. Your mitigation strategy should, too.

With the global pandemic continuing to catalyze digitalization, we’ve seen two years worth of digital transformation take place in a mere two months, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Clearly, bad actors are capitalizing on the opportunities that digital transformation creates, as more da...

Bad Bot Report 2021: The Pandemic of the Internet

The 8th Annual Bad Bot Report is now available from Imperva. Created using data from Imperva’s Threat Research Lab, it provides a comprehensive look at the bad bot landscape and the impact that this malicious traffic has across multiple industries. Bad bot traffic amounted to 25.6 percent of all...

Five Ways Bad Bots Are Threatening Financial Services

For years now, the biggest security concerns for businesses in the financial services sector have mainly been related to data security, privacy, compliance and everything in between. Nevertheless, application security is equally as important and complex, as it consists of multiple potential attac...

Imperva A Seven-Time Magic Quadrant Leader and Named Highest for Completeness of Vision for WAF

Gartner has published its 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF and Imperva has been named a Leader for the seventh consecutive year! It’s rare to be a part of defining a market and even less common to lead that market through a fundamental shift. Leading the market throug...

I know where you rode last summer: Uncovering the security issues of shared scooter services

We recently discovered flaws in the security of shared electric scooter services that have worrying implications for the safety and privacy of their users. Not only is it possible to remotely ring the bells of scooters all over the world, but external parties are able to track the location and...

Good Bots In. Bad Bots Out.

More than half of Internet traffic today comes from bots. These non-human visitors crawl the web constantly, their numbers are increasing, and they are getting smarter and more human-like by the minute. Imperva has been tracking these trends for more than five years, in an ongoing statistical stu...

Data Anonymization: Motivation and Mechanics

Data is one of the most valuable assets a company has in its possession. And while it may not be listed as a line item on the balance sheet, when a company’s data is breached it can have a very negative impact on the bottom line—in a company’s stock price, reputation and brand. One approach to...

CVE-2026-42945: Imperva Customers Protected Against Critical NGINX Rewrite Module Vulnerability

TL;DR: Researchers recently disclosed CVE-2026-42945, a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting both NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus. The flaw exists within the ngxhttprewritemodule component and can allow unauthenticated attackers to trigger denial-of-service conditions and...

GraphQL Vulnerabilities and Common Attacks: Seen in the Wild

In our previous blog, we provided an overview of GraphQL security, along with details and examples of common attacks. Building on that foundation, this blog will take a closer look at real-world examples of GraphQL attacks that have recently occurred. We will explore the methods used by attackers...

Elevate Your Cybersecurity with Imperva Cloud WAF: More Than Just a Checkbox

In the world of digital modernization, having a web application firewall WAF isnt an option - its a necessity. But in the endless sea of security solutions, how do you choose the right one? How do you ensure that youre not merely checking a box, but genuinely fortifying your digital fortress? Whi...