The Global DDoS Threat Landscape – September 2022

Every month in this space, we will post the State of the Global DDoS Threat Landscape blog on behalf of the Imperva Threat Research team. As DDoS attacks become more frequent, varied, and sophisticated, it is critical that we regularly communicate the Imperva Threat Research team’s findings and...

Cybersecurity and PR: Making Data Protection Public

The customer cares Customers regularly see news about privacy and hacking, and they want to know that it’s safe for them to give over their personal data. A lack of trust in an eCommerce site is a leading reason why potential customers abandon their shopping carts. Consumers have no shortage of...

Is it Illegal to Scrape a Website for Content?

Web scraping is the process of using bots to extract information from a website. In recent years, the debate over web scraping is growing more complex as business intelligence and data privacy issues arise. The practice of web scraping has gone on for nearly as long as there have been websites. T...

How to Reduce the Risk of Buy Now, Pay Later Fraud

According to a recent FinTech trends report, 2022 is expected to be a big year for Buy Now, Pay Later BNPL. Apple’s recent announcement of its entry into BNPL with Apple Pay Later represents a seismic boom for a sector which is projected to top $1 trillion in annual gross merchandise volume by...

How Insider Threats Drive Better Data Protection Strategies

Fifty-eight percent of sensitive data security incidents are caused by insider threats, according to a recent study by Forrester Research. Insider threats originate from inappropriate use of legitimate authorized user accounts. These accounts - assigned to internal employees and business associat...

Imperva Recognized as a Best Place to Work in Israel

It is not easy and takes many things to create a winning workplace, including and certainly not limited to: a vibrant culture, a balanced approach to professional and personal life, career advancement opportunities and, most importantly, a group of talented, world-class professionals who care abo...

The Threat of DDoS Attacks Creates A Recipe for Election Chaos

Four years ago, we published a blog on the ways a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack could disrupt the U.S. Presidential election. Unfortunately, the same risk persists in 2020. In fact, given the historic influx of mail-in ballot voting for the November 3 election, a targeted DDoS attack...

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...

Imperva Customers Protected Against Critical “ToolShell” Zero‑Day in Microsoft SharePoint

A critical zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, tracked as CVE-2025-53770, is under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 9.8, impacts on-premises SharePoint Server 2016, 2019, and Subscription Edition, and allows unauthenticated remote code execution...

The Database Kill Chain

Cyber Threat Modeling Frameworks Modern attacks targeting sensitive data have become complex. An organization with many assets might be lost when trying to assess its overall risk, understand the pain points and prioritize the tasks required to secure its information systems. Cyber threat modelin...

Cursor’s Magic Comes with a Catch: The Trust Setting You’re Missing

Occasionally, a new AI tool emerges unexpectedly and dominates the conversation on social media. This time, that tool is Cursor, an AI coding platform that’s making waves for simplifying app development with advanced models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o. In a recent video posted on X, which h...

Zero Reasons not to Move to Zero Trust with RASP

What is Zero Trust? Zero Trust is a security methodology that enterprises are rapidly adopting to enhance data protection by reducing the sole reliance on traditional perimeter-based protections. Traditionally, cybersecurity strategies have relied on a hardened perimeter with security tools like...

The Data-Centric Approach to Data Privacy

All organizations understand how critical it is to have access to their customers and prospects’ sensitive personal data. This intelligence is essential to helping them create and maintain relationships so they can deliver tailored experiences and recommendations. Having this sensitive personal...

Infographic: What is the economic impact of a data security platform?

Data security is important regardless of how your organization approaches cybersecurity. Whether it’s a protection-first approach, detection and remediation, or somewhere in between, data security enables organizations to inform on risk posture, protect against unauthorized data access and may...

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...

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...

Operation Eastwood: Measuring the Real Impact on NoName057(16)

Introduction On July 16, 2025, Europol revealed the details of Operation Eastwood, a coordinated international strike against one of the most active pro-Russian cybercrime groups, NoName057016. The announcement promised a major disruption to the group’s activities. In this blog, we explore whethe...

How to ‘Win’ a Red Team Exercise

What is a red team exercise? Organizations that conduct red team exercises use penetration testing tactics to assess vulnerabilities and discover weak points in their cybersecurity preparation. Usually, this involves two teams - one red the protagonists and one blue the incident responders who mu...

Reduce Risk from Insider Threats Using Imperva Data Security Fabric

The definition of insider threats is as broad as the risks it represents. While insider threats may originate from negligent or malicious employees, they can also be external cybercriminals who bypassed perimeter controls using a compromised user account. No matter the source, or motivation,...

Five Data Privacy Tips for Consumers

As a consumer, you must assume that your personal information is not 100% safe online. Hackers cause data breaches every single day, exposing our email addresses, passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers and other sensitive personal data in the process. Most people don’t think abou...

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...

Q3 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

Today we are releasing our latest Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report, a statistical analysis of 5,765 network and application layer DDoS attacks mitigated by Imperva Incapsula services during Q3 2017. Before diving into the report’s highlights, it should be mentioned that this quarter was marked...

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...

Why we all Need a Password Manager

What is a password manager? A password manager helps users create unique and complex passwords and store them in an encrypted fashion, meaning each website, application, or program that needs login information can use a more secure string of characters, letters, and symbols. Users don’t have to...

For Cost-Conscious Compliance Reporting, Rethink Your Data Retention Capability

Staffing costs required to generate reports for compliance audits are high, but the time required to generate the reports themselves is not necessarily to blame if you have suitable access to your data. Today, the cost to retain data is the real challenge in compliance reporting. In this post,...

4 Bad Bots Likely to Cause Problems for the Remainder of 2022

A short primer on internet bots An Internet bot bot, for short is a software application that runs automated tasks over the internet. Bots typically run simple tasks which they can perform at a dramatically greater rate than any human. Beneficial or anodyne bots are characterized as legitimate, o...

Data Masking 101 – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

Data masking is an effective way to protect a large majority of your organization’s data. It replaces original data with realistic, but fictional data—reducing production data sprawl and your attack surface footprint, while maintaining the data's use for things like development, analytics modelin...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

New Imperva Office & Customer Experience Centre Aims to Meet the Needs of Customers In Singapore & Across Asia Pacific and Japan

Since 2009, Imperva has proudly maintained offices in various countries across the Asia Pacific and Japan APJ region. As the company experiences momentum in this region, we continue to invest in expanding our presence to better support our valued customers, wherever they’re located in APJ. This...

What You Need to Do Today to Protect Against Account Takeover Attacks

Historically, account takeover ATO has been recognized as an attack in which cybercriminals take ownership of online accounts using stolen passwords and usernames. Cybercriminals purchase a list of account credentials from the dark web that are usually compiled by hackers through social...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Hidden DoS Vector in SQL Parsers

SQL parsers are critical components of the modern data stack. They validate queries before they reach the database, transpile between dialects, and lint codebases for style violations. Increasingly, they also power AI-driven SQL generation in LLM-integrated data tools. Our research focused on two...

CVE-2026-21589: Critical Pre-Authentication File Read Affects Atlassian Data Center Products

Atlassian has released an out-of-band security advisory for CVE-2026-21589, a critical arbitrary file access vulnerability affecting a broad range of its Data Center products. The flaw carries a CVSS 4.0 score of 9.3 and can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction. Becaus...

Is Your DDoS Protection Actually On?

Readiness is a visibility problem, and it's one many organizations don't know they have. Most security controls tell you when they're broken. A bad firewall rule lets traffic through that shouldn't be there. An expired certificate generates alerts. A misconfigured WAF starts blocking legitimate...