Google Australia Customers Now Benefit From Imperva Cloud-Native WAAP Security

Many Australian businesses have moved their applications and data to cloud-native architectures for agility, scalability, and sovereignty. However, this move extends their attack surface beyond their typical security boundaries. As evidenced by the Thales 2026 Data Threat Report, attackers...

Your Redis Server Looks Fine. That’s the Problem.

Introduction There’s an automated attack circulating right now that breaks into unprotected Redis servers, takes over the underlying machine, and then carefully puts everything back the way it found it. It restores the database filename. It deletes the tools it used. It detaches from the...

Integrating Advanced API Security with Imperva Gateway Environment

As APIs power the majority of modern web applications, implementing robust API security is no longer optional - it’s a critical necessity for data protection. This guide explores how to seamlessly integrate API gateway security into your Imperva on-premises environment to mitigate OWASP Top 10...

Bridging the Security Knowledge Gap: Introducing AI ExplAIn for Imperva Cloud WAF

The challenge of maintaining robust web application security often comes down to communication. Security teams frequently spend countless hours explaining WAF blocking decisions to application developers who may lack security expertise. This communication gap not only creates friction between tea...

First Things First: Know and Prioritize Your Risk in Data Security

Fortify your risk posture by shifting focus from network security to data-centric security for more robust cyber defense. Cyberattacks are one of the most onerous threats faced by businesses today. Not only is cybercrime skyrocketing in volume, it is also increasing in AI/ML-powered sophisticatio...

New Mirai Botnet Variants Observed: How to Identify a Mirai-Style DDoS Attack

The Mirai Internet of Things IoT botnet, notorious for targeting connected household devices like cameras, alarm systems, and personal routers, continues evolving and poses significant cybersecurity threats. It has a history of executing massive DDoS attacks, including a major incident that...

Accelerating Cloud-Native Data Security Deployments at Scale with Imperva’s eDSF Kit

Todays evolving digital landscape and the rapid expansion of cloud technologies have necessitated a shift in the approach of deploying and managing data security across multiple platforms. Traditional methods of manual deployment of data activity monitoring, risk analytics, and threat detection...

The Dark Side of Web Development: Why You Should Be Prioritizing Shadow Code

In the fast-paced world of web development, staying ahead of the curve is paramount, as developers are frequently under pressure to deliver products and functionalities quickly and efficiently. To meet accelerated timelines, they often leverage third-party scripts and open-source libraries,...

“Oops, I insecurely coded again!”

The call is coming from inside the house It’s no secret that companies need to be vigilant about application security. However, frequently the source of application vulnerabilities may come as a surprise to security teams. While zero-day exploits are a principal focus of vulnerability mitigation...

Four Benefits of Software as a Service (SaaS) for Cybersecurity Teams

Software as a service, or SaaS as it’s more commonly known, is more than just a license delivery model and a way for cybersecurity teams to pay for critical cybersecurity software - it has real benefits for the customer. In a SaaS distribution model, the software is hosted by the software service...

3 Data Source Coverage Capabilities You Need from Your Database Security Solution

When Henry Ford, the de-facto inventor of mass production, was asked during a production meeting in 1909 in which colors his Model T automobile would be available to consumers, Ford - a notorious stickler for keeping costs to the bare minimum - offered almost no optional extras and that included...

The SysAdmin Class for the World’s Greatest Role-Playing Game

If you’re not sure what a System Administrator SysAdmin does, this is the person in your company or possibly an external contractor who fearlessly oversees the maintenance, care, configuration, and stable operation of your computers and servers. It’s your SysAdmin who is responsible for the...

One GRC Manager’s Practical Approach to GDPR Readiness

With about four months to go before the GDPR becomes effective many companies are still struggling with where to start. You’re not alone. According to this survey, the majority of companies are slow off the mark. On top of that, companies require resources and budget to prepare for and comply wit...

What SecureIQLab Cloud WAAP 5.0 means for your application security

You cannot verify a vendor’s security claims from their own datasheet, including ours. That is why independent validation matters. In our recent guide to the best WAAP solutions Best WAAP Solutions 2026: Enterprise Buyer Guide, we argued that every serious shortlist should include independent...

Why AI Bot Protection and Control Are Essential for Application Security

AI-driven automation is no longer emerging. It is already integrated and accepted as internet traffic. From AI assistants and crawlers to enterprise automation tools, websites are now routinely accessed by non-human actors operating at scale. Vulnerabilities or weaknesses in your application...

API Security for AI Agents: Why Protection Has Never Been More Important.

For years, a lot of risky APIs survived simply because they were hard to find. They weren’t documented. Only a handful of engineers knew the endpoints. And if an attacker wanted to abuse them, they had to spend real time reverse‑engineering traffic and guessing how things worked. That “security b...

Black Friday 2025 in Review: What Retailers Need to Know About This Year’s Holiday Shopping Season

Holiday shopping season is in full swing, and Black Friday 2025 continued to demonstrate that consumer demand and attacker activity shows no signs of slowing. According to Adobe Analytics, U.S. consumers spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, setting a new record and highlighting sustained...

CVE-2025-62725: From “docker compose ps” to System Compromise

Docker Compose powers millions of workflows, from CI/CD runners and local development stacks to cloud workspaces and enterprise build pipelines. It’s trusted by developers as the friendly layer above Docker Engine that turns a few YAML lines into a running application. In early October 2025, whil...

CVE-2025-49763 – Remote DoS via Memory Exhaustion in Apache Traffic Server via ESI Plugin

Remote attackers can trigger an avalanche of internal ESI requests, exhausting memory and causing denial-of-service in Apache Traffic Server. Executive Summary Imperva’s Offensive Security Team discovered CVE-2025-49763, a high-severity vulnerability CVSS v3.1 estimated score: 7.5 in Apache Traff...

Imperva Customers Protected Against Novel HTTP Desync Attacks

TL;DR: Recent Portswigger research introduced novel HTTP desync techniques discovered through an AI-assisted research system called the HTTP Terminator. The findings expand the range of unusual HTTP behaviors that can cause front-end and back-end systems to interpret the same traffic differently...

Securing Applications Anywhere: Breaking Down the Wall of Confusion

Application development has changed dramatically. Enterprises now release software faster, operate more digital services, and deploy applications across a mix of public cloud, private cloud, APIs, containers, and on-premises infrastructure. As application delivery has accelerated and architecture...

’Tis the Season to Be Cyber-Wary: How Thales Protects Against Account Takeover During Peak Shopping Season

The holiday shopping season is the busiest time of year for online retailers, and increasingly the most dangerous. As traffic surges and customers rush to place orders, cybercriminals use the distraction and volume to blend in. Account Takeover ATO attacks spike sharply in November and December,...

How Thales Protects Online Retail Sites from AI-Driven Bots during Holiday Shopping Season

Every November and December, online retailers gear up for their biggest revenue surge of the year. But while the traffic and transactions climb, so does the threat level. Cybercriminals know exactly when customer activity and the pressure on retail systems is at its highest and they’re automating...

Rethinking DDoS Defense: Why Scale Isn’t the Only Metric That Matters

In recent months, headlines have drawn attention to record-breaking DDoS attacks, often measured in terabits per second Tbps and accompanied by declarations of network capacity in the hundreds of Tbps. These figures, while impressive, can create a misleading narrative about what truly matters in...

Imperva Enhances Client-Side Protection to Help You Stay Ahead of PCI-DSS Compliance

When the latest PCI DSS 4.0 requirements came into full effect in March 2025, organizations processing cardholder data faced new obligations to protect payment pages from client-side risks. Requirements such as 6.4.3 script inventory, authorization, and integrity monitoring and 11.6.1 detection o...

Modernizing Data Security: Imperva and IBM Z in Action

As data security continues to evolve, businesses require solutions that scale to modern environments. Imperva and IBM Z have partnered to deliver a comprehensive approach to securing data within IBM z/OS environments while supporting the agility, resource availability, and cost-efficiency that...

Imperva Customers Protected Against XSS2Shell (CVE-2026-64638) in WordPress Core

TL;DR: CVE-2026-64638, dubbed XSS2Shell, is a high-severity WordPress Core vulnerability that begins as a pre-authentication reflected XSS on the login screen and can be chained to PHP code execution when a logged-in administrator is successfully targeted. WordPress fixed the issue in 7.0.3 and...

Bad Bot Report 2026: The Internet Is No Longer Human and It’s Changing How Business Works

For decades, companies have operated on a simple assumption that most internet traffic came from people. That assumption no longer holds. The latest 2026 Bad Bot Report: Bad Bots in the Agentic Age reinforces a shift that is now impossible to ignore. Automated traffic continues to outpace human...

Hacking Safari with GPT 5.4

When Anthropic unveiled Mythos and Project Glasswing, the reaction was immediate and polarized. Some dismissed it as fear-driven marketing, while others treated it as a credible shift in the threat landscape. Like with many things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. I wanted to test...

A Perfect Storm: DDoS Attack Hits Turkish Luxury Retailer During Fall Collection Launch

When high-stakes events meet unprecedented attack volumes, disruption can be devastating. A Turkish luxury retail platform experienced this firsthand when it was hit with a record-breaking application-layer DDoS attack, peaking at 14.2 million requests per second RPS. This marks the largest DDoS...

How Imperva Protects the Arts Industry from Ticketing Abuse by Carding Bots

The ticketing industry is under constant threat from malicious bots, with bad actors targeting these platforms for financial gain. Bots accounted for 31.1% of all traffic to entertainment platforms in 2024, with attacks ranging from scalping and credential stuffing to carding operations. When one...

Java(Script) Drive-By, Hacking Without 0days

A remote code execution chain in Google Chrome, which allows an attacker to execute code on the host machine, can cost anywhere from $250,000 to $500,000. Nowadays, such powers are typically reserved for governments and spy agencies. But not so long ago, similar capabilities were accessible to th...

Imperva DSF Secures Your Data in Amazon Web Services Enterprise Data Lakes

Data lakes serve as a central repository for storing several data types - structured, semi-structured, and unstructured - at scale. One of the ways data lakes are useful is they do not require any upfront work on the data. You can simply integrate and store data as it streams in from multiple...

Why PoP Count Isn’t the Real Measure of Application Security Performance

When evaluating cloud security platforms, one question comes up again and again: “How many Points of Presence do you have?” At first glance, the logic seems sound. More locations should mean lower latency, faster response times, and better protection. The assumption is simple: if security is...

When your DDoS mitigation provider goes down: Why traffic control can’t be outsourced

Since the headline-grabbing outages of 2021, we’ve had recurring conversations with large enterprises asking some version of the same question. Do we really want our CDN, security, and routing control to live in the same place? This issue of control has become more urgent after a series of...

Leveling Up Security: Understanding Cyber Threats in the Gaming Industry

Introduction As the G2E Global Gaming Expo conference kicks off in Las Vegas, it's important to highlight the significant role cybersecurity plays in the rapidly evolving gaming industry. From online casinos to eSports, gaming has grown into a massive global enterprise, making it a prime target f...

Measures Healthcare Providers Can Take to Mitigate Disruptions

Earlier this month, an internet outage affected public healthcare clusters in Singapore, including major hospitals and polyclinics, lasting more than seven hours from 9:20 am. Investigations identified that a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack was the cause of the online service outage. DD...

CopyEscape: Taking Over Docker Hosts with docker cp

Imperva Red Team uncovered CVE-2026-17106 , a container-to-host arbitrary file-write vulnerability in Docker’s docker cp command. Docker later confirmed that the same CVE also affected sbx cp when copying files out of Docker Sandboxes. A malicious container or sandbox could exploit the copy proce...

KuppingerCole 2025: Why Thales is a Market Leader in API Security

APIs are the backbone of modern applications connecting critical microservices and enabling enterprises to turn data into context-aware business logic via AI across their digital services. As applications become more contextual, APIs expose the data, workflows, and model interactions attackers...

On Entrust? Imperva has your back!

Managing SSL/TLS certificates is a critical yet complex task for any organization. Certificates ensure secure communication between users and your web applications, but maintaining them involves constant vigilance and expertise. From monitoring expiration dates to renewing and deploying new...