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...

Securing the Journey: Cybersecurity Challenges in the Tourism Industry

This weekend is World Tourism Day, a celebration of the global travel industry and the cultural, economic, and social connections it fosters. However, as the tourism industry continues to grow and evolve, it faces an increasing array of cybersecurity threats. From data breaches targeting personal...

When You’re Always Under #DDoS Attack

We recently mitigated a 1.55 terabit per second Tbps, DDoS attack for a steady customer of ours. This particular customer is a reputable domain name service DNS provider. I’ve personally used them for over a decade to register domains for all the projects I will never complete or, tbh, start. But...

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...

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...

Advanced Persistent Threat Groups Behind DDoS Attacks on Danish Hospitals

On Sunday 26 February the websites of several Danish hospitals were taken offline after being hit by Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks claimed by a group calling themselves ‘Anonymous Sudan’. According to reports on Twitter patient care was unaffected by the attacks and the sites were ba...

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...

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...

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...

Code Execution in Jupyter Notebook Exports

After our research on Cursor , in the context of developer-ecosystem security, we turn our attention to the Jupyter ecosystem. We expose security risks we identified in the notebook’s export functionality, in the default Windows environment, to help organizations better protect their assets and...

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...

Closing the Loop on API Security: How Imperva Helps You Expose, Contain, and Mitigate Business Logic Threats

In a world powered by APIs, waiting for an attack is waiting too long. Business logic risks like Broken Object Level Authorization BOLA don’t announce themselves with obvious signatures or malware. They hide in plain sight within normal-looking traffic and by the time a BOLA exploit turns into a...

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...

Cyber Threats in Costume: When Attacks Hide Behind a Mask

Introduction As Halloween approaches, the idea of costumes and disguises takes center stage, but the spirit of deception isn’t limited to one night. In the digital world, cyberattacks can also wear masks, concealing their true intentions to slip past defenses. Just as a costume can obscure who’s...

Enhancing Security and Compliance in the Energy Sector: Imperva’s Cipher Suite Support

In the energy and utility sector, safeguarding data and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards is paramount. With the increasing digitalization of operations, from smart grids to IoT-enabled devices, the need for robust encryption methods to protect sensitive information has never been...

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...

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,...

Why Generative AI Needs a New Kind of Security

There is a moment every CISO is having right now, often without warning. A developer shows a working internal demo of an AI assistant trained on the company's own documents. The product team is already planning a customer-facing version. The board has signed off on the budget. And somewhere in th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

’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,...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...