New Research: Crypto-mining Drives Almost 90% of All Remote Code Execution Attacks

It’s early in 2018 and we have already witnessed one of the top contenders in this year’s web application attacks. Continuing the trend from the last months of 2017, crypto-mining malware is quickly becoming attackers’ favorite modus operandi. In December 2017, 88 percent of all remote code...

Imperva Customers Protected Against Critical ServiceNow Vulnerability

Introduction ServiceNow is a widely used platform for IT service management, and its security is paramount for businesses relying on it for their operations. Recently, a critical vulnerability was discovered that could potentially allow attackers to access all data within ServiceNow instances. Th...

Imperva defends customers against CVE-2024-22024 in Ivanti products

Ivanti recently published an urgent warning about an authentication bypass in Ivanti Connect Secure, Ivanti Policy Secure, and ZTA gateways, tracked as CVE-2024-22024. The bug, which carries a severity score of 8.3, was discovered during an internal review. Since its announcement on February 8,...

Imperva defends customers against recent vulnerabilities in Apache OFBiz

On December 26, researchers from SonicWall Capture Labs discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability in Apache OFBiz, tracked as CVE-2023-51467. This bug has a CVSS score of 9.8 and allows attackers to achieve server-side request forgery SSRF by bypassing the program’s authentication. This...

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...

How Scanning Your Projects for Security Issues Can Lead to Remote Code Execution

The Imperva Red Team recently discovered and disclosed CVE-2022-40764, a command injection vulnerability affecting Snyk CLI. Snyk is a security company best known for its dependency vulnerability management software. The disclosed command injection vulnerability affects the Snyk command-line...

Imperva Earns Three Cyber Defense Global InfoSec Awards for 2022

The Cyber Defense Awards in conjunction with Cyber Defense Magazine recently announced the winners of their prestigious annual Global Infosec Awards for 2022. We are proud to say that Imperva earned three Global Infosec Awards; as Most Innovative for Application Security, Cutting Edge for Cloud...

Attack Analytics Multi-Sensor Integrations Provide Unmatched Visibility

Since debuting Attack Analytics back in 2018, this groundbreaking security analytics functionality has come a long way. Time and again our customers have told us how powerful they find the tool and how much time it saves them. Attack Analytics better positions Imperva’s customers to focus on what...

5 Things to Know About Imperva RASP

Imperva Runtime Application Self-Protection RASP is a server-side security solution for applications, providing application security by default. Here are 5 things to know about Imperva RASP: 1. RASP and a WAF are complementary While a cloud-based web application firewall keeps previously known ba...

Remote File Inclusion (RFI) – Detecting the Undetectable

Intro Remote File Inclusion RFI is an attack exploiting the functionality in web applications which allows the inclusion of external source code without validating its content or origin. An RFI payload is a link that points to a malicious file that an application will include in its code example:...

Secure Your Digital Transformation

Digital transformation DX is on the mind, IT budget sheet, and board meeting agenda for the majority of enterprise-level organizations. The term digital transformation is becoming ubiquitous, but its definition can be ambiguous. Within the context of this blog, DX refers to how organizations...

Making Our Security Portfolio Simpler — and Better

Since its inception in 2009, Incapsula has been a proud part of Imperva, the analyst-recognized cybersecurity leader. However, cybersecurity needs are evolving, and so are we. On April 7th, we will officially retire Incapsula.com. All of the great Incapsula web site content that wasn’t already...

The Year Ahead: Cybersecurity Trends To Look Out for In 2019

A Proven Record Tracking Cybersecurity Trends This time of the year is always exciting for us, as we get to take a step back, analyze how we did throughout the year, and look ahead at what the coming year will bring. Taking full advantage of our team’s expertise in data and application security,...

The Data Breach ‘Kill Chain’: Early Detection is Key

Today, organizations rely heavily on data, with a big portion of that data made up of sensitive information. As organizations become the custodians of more and more sensitive information, the frequency of data breaches increases accordingly. In some cases, the origin of a data breach is outside o...

4 Steps to Monitor and Audit Privileged Users of Data Stores

Changing regulatory requirements for protection and privacy of data and increasing numbers of data breaches are driving a greater focus on data protection. Understanding who is accessing critical data, what was accessed and when it was accessed is a critical component of strong security operation...

Imperva Defends Against Targeted Exploits Used By APT29 Hackers

Recently, U.S. and U.K. cyber agencies have warned of a renewed wave of attacks led by Russian APT29 hackers. These sophisticated threat actors have been actively exploiting vulnerabilities in Zimbra Collaboration Suite and JetBrains TeamCity, specifically CVE-2022-27924 and CVE-2023-42793, to...

XSS Marks the Spot: Digging Up Vulnerabilities in ChatGPT

With its widespread use among businesses and individual users, ChatGPT is a prime target for attackers looking to access sensitive information. In this blog post, Ill walk you through my discovery of two cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in ChatGPT and a few other vulnerabilities. When...

The 4 most common bad bot attack methods targeting financial services

Organizations in the financial services sector are high-value targets for cybercriminals. In recent years, more sophisticated botnets and other bad bot attack methods have enabled malicious hackers to ratchet up the speed of attacks on this sector. The four most common ways hackers deploy botnets...

Machine Learning Testing for Data Scientists

In one software development project after another, it has been proven that testing saves time. Does this hold true for machine learning projects? Should data scientists write tests? Will it make their work better and/or faster? We believe the answer is YES! In this post we describe a full...

Why Data Security and Privacy in the digital age are crucial

Privacy is considered a basic human right but, with so much of our personal data now ‘out there’ in cyberspace, how private can it really be? Data is everywhere, and with rising internet usage, an increase in cloud technologies, and our growing reliance on IoT devices, it continues to grow...

Clear Message Sent: Don’t Roll the Dice on Data Privacy Compliance

Last month, two leading companies each received what were then record-setting fines for data breach violations: £183 million for British Airways and then, just two weeks later, $5 billion for Facebook. Regulators sent a clear message to organizations around the world — if you don't treat your...

Read: Our Top Picks for 2018’s Biggest Cybersecurity Stories… So Far

Our threat research team's been burning the candle at both ends this year, what with the sheer number of nasties out there at any given time. But with so many to choose from, how did we populate a list with just seven cybersecurity threats, and why? For one, it'll take the rest of the year to...

Beware! A threat actor could steal the titles of your private (and draft) WordPress posts with this new vulnerability!

As of today, almost a billion sites have been built using WordPress, powering businesses and organizations of all sizes. That makes any newly discovered vulnerability especially concerning—like the one recently found and reported by Imperva researchers, which could affect any WordPress site. In...

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 ...

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...

Five Tips to Impress at Your CISO Job Interview

Chief Information Security Officers CISOs are in demand and the lack of experienced candidates, coupled with the evolving required skill set, helped make it the highest paying tech job in 2020. With 100% of large corporations Fortune 500, Global 2000 forecast to have a CISO or equivalent position...

NIST Recognizes RASP as Critical to Lowering Risk

The United States Congress ratified the Cybersecurity Framework set forth by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST in 2014 to standardize the practices and controls that mitigate constantly evolving cyberthreats. The framework has been adopted by federal and local government...

Clustering App Attacks with Machine Learning Part 2: Calculating Distance

In our previous post in this series we discussed our motivation to cluster attacks on apps, the data we used and how we enriched it by extracting more meaningful features out of the raw data. We talked about the many features that can be extracted from IP and URL. In this blog post we’ll discuss...

Leveraging Imperva Solutions for GDPR Compliance Part II: Pseudonymization

Down to the wire- the GDPR compliance deadline is here. It’s May 25 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR is live. As you know by now, the risk and potential costs associated with a failure to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR are substantial. GDPR...

Ransomware Attacks on MySQL and MongoDB

Ransomware is arguably one of the most vicious types of attack cyber security experts are dealing with today. The impact ransomware attacks can have on an organization is huge and costly. A ransomware payment alone does not reflect the total expense of an attack—the more significant costs come fr...

A Leader for Four Consecutive Years in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAFs

Gartner has published their 2017 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF and Imperva has again been named a WAF leader—now for four consecutive years. Attacks remain same, but infrastructure is changing According to 2017 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, web app attacks remain t...

Navigating the API Security Landscape: Your Definitive API Security Buyer’s Guide for 2025

APIs power today’s digital economy—connecting customers, partners, and internal services at breakneck speed. But with that agility comes risk: in 2024 alone, API vulnerabilities cost organizations a staggering$2.5 billion in remediation, fines, and lost revenue. As APIs proliferate, traditional...

Why Attackers Target the Financial Services Industry

This is Part 1 of a new monthly series from Imperva Threat Research exploring attackers’ motivations to target specific industries. Stay tuned for next months’ exploration of the healthcare industry! Key Takeaways Financial services sites are the most targeted , and it’s important to stay ahead o...

jSonar to Begin a New Chapter in Collaboration

A message from JSonar co-founder and CTO, Ron Bennatan. My wife complains that I’m a boring person. I’ve been doing the same thing for 25 years now – databases, then security, then database security, then data security and then some data lake security. But by that account Tom Brady is a boring...

Is It Time to Consider Replacing Your CDN?

Content delivery networks CDNs are the pipelines of the Internet. Working behind the scenes, they are reshaping how information is consumed online, accelerating web traffic, enhancing user experience, and providing every website with the ability to truly go global. As you may imagine, any...

Adding Some Salt to Our Network – Part 2

How our configuration management actually works Following a previous post which explained why we needed a configuration management system, this post explores how we built and implemented our configuration management using SaltStack. It describes the structure of our configuration and the toolset ...

Enhance Imperva Cloud WAF with a New Management Tool in the Imperva GitHub

Imperva recently launched the Imperva GitHub where our global community can access tools, code repositories and other neat resources that aid collaboration and streamline development. The nice thing about these tools is that you can clone them and customize them with whatever functionality you...

Indonesian Hacker Group Cashes In On Blockbuster Movie Titles

When breaking the law isn't a barrier, there’s always a way to make a quick buck. We see it every day, and this time from an Indonesian cybercrime campaign infecting vulnerable websites by luring their visitors to a network of scam websites using blockbuster movies. The attack part I: Recruiting...

Five Cloud Migration Strategies for Applications

Regardless of your current IT environment or your vision for migrating to the cloud, numerous strategies exist that can accommodate your cloud-migration approach. Fortunately, this range of options allows you to proceed with caution while making progress toward your ultimate objective. Always kee...

Protecting Xero’s Cloud-Based Accounting Platform from Cyber Attacks

Meeting with customers is always insightful, and recently I got a chance to sit down with Aaron McKeown, head of security engineering and architecture at Xero, to talk about how they use Imperva SecureSphere for their cloud-hosted applications. Founded in 2006, Xero provides cloud accounting...

Conversations on Securing Microservices, API Gateways and Containers

Last month, I met James name changed while at AWS Summit in London. As I was managing Imperva's booth, he walked over to me with a query about what we do. A conversation ensued and James described his company for me. They were into financial-legal intermediation between underwriters, insurance...

Gaining Insights Is Fundamental for API Security

As enterprises continue their digital transformation journey in this Post-COVID era, applications are the engine that drives their business growth. Whether it’s a digital-first enterprise or one that is accelerating its digital transformation initiatives, APIs are not only opening up systems so...

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...

Introduction to SQL: Examples, Best Practices and Pitfalls

SQL Structured Query Language has been with us for more than half a century and it’s not going away anytime soon. Popular in both traditional relational databases and newer NoSQL databases technologies, SQL is widely used for data analytics, Big Data processing, coding languages, and more. I’m a...

API Security and The Silent Menace of Unknown APIs

The digital application landscape is evolving rapidly, with APIs as the backbone of modern software development. However, amidst all this innovation lies a silent menace: the prevalence of unknown APIs. These APIs, often lurking beyond sanctioned channels, pose significant security risks to...

The Added Value of SNI-Only Mode in Imperva Cloud WAF

Imperva has modified the default behavior for new cloud WAF sites, now enforcing Server Name Indication SNI-only traffic by default. This shift is aimed at optimizing the utilization of TLS-related features, both those currently in place and those slated for the future roadmap. This blog post wil...

How to Secure All Your APIs Through Multiple Deployment Options

Imperva has invested in strengthening our API Security offering to meet the needs of customers since the acquisition of CloudVector in 2021. Since then, the product’s capabilities have expanded, positioning it as a leader in the growing API Security market. What makes Imperva API Security unique ...

Game Over: How to Stop DDoS Attacks on Online Gamers

You’re just about to take out a long-time rival, claim Victory Royale or round out a royal flush when your ping spikes or you’re DCed. Chances are you, or the game you’re playing, have been hit by a denial of service DoS attack. What’s the story? A recent report cited that of all cyber attacks...

Providing Security and Acceleration of Single Page Applications

HTTP/2 + gRPC and protobuf Today many digital transformation and DevOps teams have been tasked with building applications that will enhance their customer’s digital experience. The goal, to make the user experience smoother, faster and less impeded by transactional and security controls, is a cor...

Imperva Wins Awards for Best Database Security, Coolest Cloud Security Vendor

SC Magazine has long been one of the most respected names in cybersecurity journalism, and one that has written about Imperva’s security research and solutions many times. So we’re proud to announce that we’ve won the 2019 SC Award for Best Database Security solution at SC’s awards ceremony on...