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Managing Security in a DevOps Environment
DevOps is a software development practice in which development and operations engineers collaborate during the entire product lifecycle. With the adoption of DevOps at mainstream levels, we now see security starting to take a bigger role in DevOps’ day-to-day responsibilities. From a security...
Thwart Insider Threats with Machine Learning [Infographic]
Potentially the most lethal kind of threat to an organization’s security, insider threats can pose risks as significant as—if not more than—external attacks. Because insiders are granted trusted access to sensitive data, these threats often fly under the security radar. By examining how users...
Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-41940 in cPanel & WHM
What is CVE-2026-41940? CVE-2026-41940 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting cPanel & WHM, including DNSOnly, in versions after 11.40. The flaw, discovered by WatchTowr Labs, exists in the login flow and allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain unauthorized access to...
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...
Compromising Bank Customer Trust: The Price of Inadequate Data Protection
Banks hold not just money, but also emotions and aspirations. Countless stories unfold within bank walls, reflecting the intimate connection between money and emotion. Beyond the numbers and transactions, every dollar represents individuals’ hopes, dreams, and livelihoods. As the trusted custodia...
Online Retailers: Five Threats Targeting Your Business This Holiday Shopping Season
As the holiday season approaches, a palpable sense of joy and anticipation fills the air. Twinkling lights adorn homes, the aroma of freshly baked cookies wafts through the kitchen, and the sound of laughter and carolers melodies resonate on frosty evenings. Its a time when families come together...
New Secaucus Point of Presence Increases Resilience for Financial Services
We are thrilled to announce the opening of a new cutting-edge Point of Presence PoP in Secaucus, New Jersey, which adds resilience to our network infrastructure located in the Northeastern United States region. This PoP represents the first build using next generation technology designed to...
Database Ransomware: From Attack to Recovery
Introduction In recent years, ransomware attacks have risen sharply, due to their profitability, ease of access with ransomware-as-a-service RaaS tools, and an increasing attack surface. Ransomware is a type of attack in which the attacker locks and encrypts a victim’s data and then demands a...
The Battle Against Business Logic Attacks: Why Traditional Security Tools Fall Short
As the digital landscape continues to evolve, so do the tactics utilized by bad actors that are seeking to exploit application vulnerabilities. Among the most insidious types of attacks are business logic attacks BLAs. Unlike known attacks, which can be identified by signatures or patterns, such ...
The Worrying Rise of Cybercrime as a Service (CaaS)
What is CaaS? Put simply, Cybercrime as a Service CaaS means black hat hackers for hire. Now, any ex-employee with a grudge, any disgruntled customer, any troubled ex-partner, or vindictive competitor, literally anyone with the right browser, can hire a dark web bad actor to perform...
Imperva Stops Hordes of Bots from Hijacking Financial Accounts in Largest Recorded Account Takeover Attack
Consider for a moment that an army of bots is setting their sights on your website. They target your login page and hammer it with millions of requests in an ongoing attack that lasts days, raising your infrastructure and fraud prevention costs. Would this frighten you? What if this barrage of bo...
Why the Search for Best-Of-Breed Tooling is Causing Issues for Security Teams
The growing need to consolidate vendor portfolios The adoption of best-of-breed security solutions has led to unforeseen problems for SOCs. Onboarding a new solution increases complexity; it requires configuration, integration with existing tools, fine-tuning policies, and the ability to create...
Shifting from Network Security to Data Security
The world-wide events of 2020 have meant that organisations have had to simply react and adapt. More data is being moved to the cloud, applications are built in cloud environments, and more and more databases are being used to support the shift in the way we work. 59% of enterprises believe their...
Fast, Furious, and Scalable: Designing a High-throughput, Real-time Network Traffic Analyzer
These days, our focus is on spoiling our customers. For example, we give our DDoS Protection customers the peace of mind that their network traffic is routing through Impervas cloud for consistent volumetric attack protection. That protection works pretty well, but customers have started asking u...
Key Elements for DDoS Detection, Mitigation and Analysis
Given today’s volatile DDoS threat landscape with attacks ranging from massive volumetric assaults to sophisticated and persistent application level threats, comprehensive protection is a must for online businesses. But what are the most important considerations for evaluating potential solutions...
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 ...
DirtyCOW Bug Drives Attackers to A Backdoor in Vulnerable Drupal Web Servers
In this post we’ll unpack a short -- but no less serious -- attack that affected some Linux-based systems, on October 31. Throughout the campaign, the attacker used a chain of vulnerabilities including the infamous Drupalgeddon2 and DirtyCOW, and system misconfigurations to persistently infect...
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...
Machine Learning: Identify the Unpredictable – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]
When it comes to identifying insider threats, the fundamental challenge is how to determine when data access appears out of the ordinary for a typical user or system, and of those instances, which ones are dangerous versus merely unusual. A lot of solutions today serve up so many policy violation...
Closing the Sovereignty Gap: Bringing Active API Protection to Self-Managed Environments
How Thales is bringing active API protection to self-managed environments, without compromising digital sovereignty. APIs Changed Faster Than Security Architectures Organizations have invested heavily in discovering APIs, classifying sensitive data, and understanding API risk. That's progress. Bu...
From Cloudflare Bypass to Credit Card Theft
Introduction On July 6, 2025, a suspicious Python package called 'cloudscrapersafe' was uploaded to the Python Package Index PyPI. Marketed as a utility to evade Cloudflare’s anti-bot protections, this package was a modified version of a widely used 'cloudscraper' library, which is used to automa...
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...
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...
Lessons Learned From Exposing Unusual XSS Vulnerabilities
Misunderstood browser APIs are often at the core of many web security issues. With the rapid expansion of web APIs, keeping up with security best practices can be challenging. In this post, we’ll explore a few common mistakes developers make that lead to modern XSS Cross-Site Scripting...
From ChatBot To SpyBot: ChatGPT Post Exploitation
In the second installment of our blog post series on ChatGPT, we delve deeper into the security implications that come with the integration of AI into our daily routines. Building on the discoveries shared in our initial post, "XSS Marks the Spot: Digging Up Vulnerabilities in ChatGPT," where we...
Imperva Successfully Mitigates Record-Breaking DDoS Attack in Retail Industry
In the dynamic world of cybersecurity, November 13, 2023, marked a significant milestone for Imperva as we successfully mitigated the largest application-layer DDoS attack we’ve ever recorded in the retail industry. The target was a prominent Indonesian eCommerce platform, known for its diverse...
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...
Two-Week ATO Attack Mitigated by Imperva
Beginning on February 7, an Imperva-protected account was targeted by an ongoing account takeover ATO attack that lasted for two weeks. On average, attacks last a few hours or a couple days at most, so the length of this attack was an anomaly and underscores the persistence of the attackers. As a...
The Four-Step Approach to Modernizing Your DAM Strategy
Effective data security is critical to an organizations success and requires a strategy that aligns with the company’s objectives and those of its stakeholders. As the data landscape changes, most Database Activity Monitoring DAM solutions struggle to meet new data security requirements. The resu...
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...
Top 5 Most Vicious Bad Bots
Classified by The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP as ‘automated threats’, bad bots can be used to perform a plethora of actions on the application layer, from basic requests to elaborate sessions with sophisticated requests. Some of these bots are more malicious than others. This make...
API Security Checks in the Post-Pandemic World
The digital transformation journeys of many enterprises have been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. For 2020, IT resources shifted to support WFH policies with mobile and remote productivity solutions, while simultaneously managing multiple datacenter migration projects to the cloud for scale...
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 mitigates largest DDoS attacks of 2020… so far…
The word “unprecedented” has never been used so much as it has during 2020. And in the latest of many unprecedented events, July saw the two largest recorded DDoS attacks of the year so far. As revealed in our July 2020 Cyber Threat Index Report, published today, Imperva Research Labs recorded tw...
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...
Seven Must-Dos to Secure MySQL 8.0
Most database breaches are blamed on insiders such as employees who are either malicious or whose security has been compromised. In fact, most of these breaches are actually caused by poor security configuration and privilege abuse. Every new database version brings security upgrades. Use them...
Cloud Database Migration Peer Insights [Study]
Not long ago, for security, compliance or other reasons, it was unthinkable for many regulated organizations to move sensitive data into the cloud. It’s striking how things have changed. Maybe it was inevitable that services like email were cloud migration candidates. People trust Microsoft, and...
Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Jerusalem Bicha
We conclude our series featuring women in tech at Imperva with an interview with Jerusalem Bicha, network operations team lead at Imperva. We talked about her path to a career in cybersecurity. Tell us how you got into cybersecurity. JB: I actually don’t have a degree. My career in cybersecurity...
Protect Against WannaCry with Deception-Based Ransomware Detection
The WannaCry ransomware attack caught the world off guard—and may have even literally left some crying. The attack infected more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries by encrypting data on networked machines and demanding payments in Bitcoin. According to Malwarebytes researchers, the attack...
Why You Need a Database Audit Trail
Your ability to answer very detailed questions about what’s going on in your organization’s databases can make or break a compliance audit or security investigation. Aside from the obvious need for this information in the event of a breach, it’s also important because government, financial, and...
The Clock Is Already Ticking: Why Post-Quantum Cryptography Can’t Wait
There is a question I have been hearing more and more from CISOs, compliance officers, and security architects over the past year. It does not start with "we had a breach" or "we failed an audit." It starts with something that sounds almost philosophical: " Are we quantum-safe?" A year ago, that...
Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-49975 (HTTP/2 Bomb) DoS
TL;DR: CVE-2026-49975, dubbed the “HTTP/2 Bomb,” is a critical remote Denial-of-Service DoS vulnerability affecting default HTTP/2 configurations of major web servers including NGINX, Apache HTTPD, Microsoft IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare Pingora. Discovered by security firm Calif using OpenAI’s Code...
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...
The Rising Cost of Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks – A $186 Billion Wake-Up Call for Businesses
How much do bot attacks and API insecurity cost organizations? To answer these questions, Imperva engaged the Marsh McLennan Cyber Risk Intelligence Center to analyze incident data related to vulnerable APIs and bot attacks. Imperva’s latest report, “The Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks,"...
Episode 2: Behind the Scenes of a Tailor-Made Massive Phishing Campaign Part 2
Executive Summary Last summer, we investigated a massive, global phishing campaign impersonating almost 350 legitimate companies. Our continued investigation into this expansive phishing campaign revealed leaked backend source code, shedding light on the infrastructure behind the operation. This...
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...
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...
With Imperva’s DRA and ServiceNow, you can avoid burning out your cyber security employees
In todays world, CIOs and CISOs are facing a tough reality when it comes to the security staff shortage situation. With the deflating economy, nationalism, cybercrime, and nation-led adversaries, the demand for security personnel has increased, making it challenging for organizations to find and...
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...
Four Big Reasons to Update Your Software
ABP To shamelessly paraphrase the 1992 crime drama Glengarry Glen Ross, “Always be patching.” Any home computer needs to be updated regularly. Drives and software updates are critical to the smooth running of the average home PC, and can often be overlooked. Business and professional computers ar...