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...

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...

Healthcare Needs Risk-Based Cybersecurity for Comprehensive, Effective Protection

In the first blog post of this three-blog series, we discussed the extraordinarily powerful “perfect storm” of cyber risk faced by healthcare organizations. The second blog post reviews how data security risks persist despite HIPAA compliance. In this third blog, we will discuss how to get starte...

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 ...

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...

Concern over Coronavirus Leading to Global Spread of Fake Pharmacy Spam

High levels of concern around the Coronavirus are currently being used to increase the online popularity of spam campaigns designed to spread fake news and drive unsuspecting users to dubious online drug stores. Given the level of anxiety that currently exists globally around the spread of the...

From E-Commerce to Enterprise Employee: How I Overcame my Fears and Doubts

By Efrat Silberhaft One year ago, I was working as the sole designer in a small e-commerce startup. When the company shut down, I had to start looking for a new job. I decided to leave the startup world. What I didn't know is that my next step would turn out to be in a different field —...

Taking Stock: The Internet of Things, and Machine Learning Algorithms at War

It’s in the news every day; hackers targeting banks, hospitals, or, as we’ve come to fear the most, elections. Suffice to say then that cybersecurity has, in the last few years, gone from a relatively obscure industry – let's qualify that: not in the sense of importance, but rather how folks have...

New research shows 75% of ‘open’ Redis servers infected

Since our initial report on the RedisWannaMine attack that propagates through open Redis and Windows servers, we’ve been hearing about more and more attacks on Redis servers. Redis is a great tool, it can serve as in-memory distributed database, cache or a message broker and is widely popular...

Critical Actions to Finalize Your GDPR Compliance Program

Starting May 25, 2018, enforcement begins for the new EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR and its heightened principles and requirements regarding data privacy, data processing, and data security. The newly revised regulation applies to organizations doing business in the European Union or...

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...

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...

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...

Top 8 Database Security Best Practices

There is a large body of knowledge on what activities are required in order to secure databases and in order to comply with regulations and requirements. We’ve gathered the top 8 best practices for ensuring database security. Databases are arguably the most important and, unfortunately, also the...

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 4, Trends in Average Volumes of Stolen Records

Imperva research shows an increase in the volume of data stolen every year. In 2020, we started to see more and more breaches that exfiltrate records in billions. Based on the analysis of thousands of data breach details published on dbdigest, we made calculations on the raw data and found some...

Benefits of Building a Multi-prong Mousetrap for WAF Policies with ML

The reason behind buying a market-leading Web Application Firewall WAF is to protect your website and web applications from malicious attacks, plus complying with industry or regional data and privacy standards. In addition to the typical OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, WAFs need to address a litan...

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...

Top Insider Threat Concern? Careless Users. [Survey]

It’s been a busy year thus far in the cybercrime world with the stakes seeming to grow higher every month. Just last month, insider threats were making headlines with a news report that Reality Winner, a contractor for the National Security Association with a top-level security clearance, leaked...

On-Premises API Security on Kubernetes: What It Actually Looks Like in Practice

Let’s Talk About Where Your APIs Actually Run Quick answer: On-premises API security keeps API discovery, detection, and enforcement inside your own perimeter instead of a third-party cloud—the model regulated industries need. Deploying it natively on Kubernetes sidecar sensors → a discovery...

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...

A European Summer of Sports is Upon Us – What Does it Mean for Security?

The recent Champions League final in London congratulations, Real Madrid! marked the opening shot to a hot European summer of major sporting events. We now approach the highly anticipated UEFA EURO 2024 football tournament in Germany and the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. And as we do, bad actors a...

ManageEngine Vulnerability CVE-2022-47966

Recently, Zoho ManageEngine released a security advisory for CVE-2022-47966, which allows for pre-authentication remote code execution in at least 24 ManageEngine products, including ADSelfService Plus and ServiceDesk Plus. This vulnerability stems from the products’ use of an outdated Apache...

How your application and data security strategy can help you complete a high level FFIEC CAT assessment

More than ever, financial institutions depend on web applications to maintain operations and partner with other enterprises to provide services to customers, but the significant rise in the number of cyber attacks targeted at this industry in the last few years has the potential to undermine...

How to Create a Simulated Phishing Attack Across Your Company

Email is one of the many weapons at the disposal of bad actors on the Internet, and your employees are in the firing line. Attackers try to hide behind a trusted entity, sometimes even masquerading as a known vendor or even as a representative of a group within your own organization, like HR or I...

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 1, What Specific Types of Data Get Stolen?

As part of Imperva’s Security Labs’ ongoing efforts to monitor and report on the current Application and Data Security Threat landscape, we studied and analyzed over 100 of the largest and best-known data breaches of the last decade. Download the full report, Lessons Learned From Analyzing 100 Da...

Holidays Are Coming – the State of Security for E-commerce in 2020

With the Coronavirus pandemic driving consumers online, a new report from Imperva reveals how this year’s holiday shopping season will present online retailers with a level of traffic - and cyber-attack threats - like they’ve never seen before. Among the many effects of COVID-19 has been a huge...

2019 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

Today Imperva Research Labs, made up of senior researchers and industry experts who have been delivering sound and valid advice for over 15 years, is releasing a brand new Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report. The report is a statistical analysis of 3,643 network layer DDoS attacks throughout 2019...

E-commerce: Bad bots are ready for the holidays. Are you?

The busiest time for online retailers is almost upon us—the holiday season. Each business is looking at ways to take advantage of cyber week when a significant portion of annual sales are made. At this time, preparation is well underway for Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions. But another...

Imperva Cloud Security Now Available Through UK Government’s GCloud 10 Digital Marketplace

Building on the success of Imperva listing our market-leading, single stack Incapsula cloud platform for DDOS protection; CDN; load balancing and WAF on the GCloud 9 framework, Imperva has now added more products to the GCloud 10 portfolio. As the UK pushes for even greater digital adoption on a...

Building an Effective API Security Strategy: Easy If You Have the Right Tools

In their approach to application programming interface API security, organizations exposing web APIs must balance ease of access with control. Like the bank robber attacking banks because "that's where the money is," the use of APIs to provide access to applications and to business-critical data...

5 Key Factors to Consider When Comparing Cloud Security Solutions [Video]

Migrating to the cloud can be a challenge, and so can securing your platform once you’re there. It means having a security solution that is quick, adaptable and equipped to handle a wider breadth of attacks. Whether you’re in the market for a new security product, or you’re looking to switch, the...

Monitoring Data & Data Access to Support Ongoing GDPR Compliance – Part III: Tools

The new European Union EU-wide General Data Protection Regulation GDPR was signed into law in late April 2016, and the compliance deadline came into effect on May 25, 2018. The Regulation is expansive and covers a variety of subject areas, provisions, and actions in the form of documented Article...

Q2 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

This week we released our latest Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report, a statistical analysis of more than 15,000 network and application layer DDoS attacks mitigated by Imperva Incapsula services during Q2 2017. This quarter, for the fifth one in a row, we saw a decrease in the number of network...

Sensitive Data Access: Where Traditional UBA Solutions Fall Short – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

In today’s global information economy an ever-increasing amount of sensitive data is collected, used, exchanged, analyzed, and retained. And with that comes an ever-increasing number of accidental or intentional data breaches. Identifying inappropriate access to data is paramount in stopping a...

Challenges of Big Data Security – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

Database security best practices are also applicable for big data environments. The question is how to achieve security and compliance for big data environments given the challenges they present. Issues of volume, scale, and multiple layers/technologies/instances make for a uniquely complex...

Uncover Sensitive Data with the Classifier Tool

Understanding what sensitive data resides in your enterprise database is a critical step in securing your data. Imperva offers Classifier, a free data classification tool that allows you to quickly uncover sensitive data in your database. Classifier contains over 250 search rules for popular...

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...

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...

GraphQL Vulnerabilities and Common Attacks: Seen in the Wild

In our previous blog, we provided an overview of GraphQL security, along with details and examples of common attacks. Building on that foundation, this blog will take a closer look at real-world examples of GraphQL attacks that have recently occurred. We will explore the methods used by attackers...

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...

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 3, Securing Public Cloud Services

In the first two parts of this series, we gained insight into what specific types of data get stolen and what the root causes of breaches are, based on data breach information that Imperva’s Security Labs’ gathered, studied, and analyzed over the last ten years. You can get the full report, Lesso...

Imperva’s WAF Gateway 14.4 Protects Enterprises for the Post-COVID Era

Whether it’s called the New Normal or Next Normal era, COVID-19 has impacted all businesses worldwide and accelerated their digital transformation initiatives during this new post-pandemic era. Whether it’s from a recent retail trend like omnichannel commerce or a newly defined, post-COVID practi...

Enhanced Security at the Edge with Imperva DNS Protection

Your website is the gateway to your business and the potential for disruption of your site or damage to your web infrastructure makes DNS security a serious consideration for organizations. The criticality of DNS Services for ensuring network connectivity and website availability make them a hot...

Major Global Ransom Denial of Service Campaign Continues Rising Trend in Global DDoS Attacks

Extortionists Claim Connection to Notorious Threat Actor Groups In recent weeks Imperva has become aware of a considerable increase in the number of serious Ransom Denial of Service RDoS threats, with extortion campaigns targeting thousands of large commercial organizations globally, not least th...

Cloud Compliance – A Top Challenge for organizations

Regulatory compliance violations are among the top three biggest Cloud Application Security challenges for organizations, according to the CyberEdge Group’s ‘2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report’. Equally concerning are ‘Limitations of cloud service provider’s security tools’ which come in joint secon...

Key Findings from the 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report

The new 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report CDR released this week. Now in its seventh year, the annual report provides a look at how global cybersecurity professionals perceive threats and plan to defend against them. The CDR enables cybersecurity professionals to benchmark their company’s security...

Hey Belfast, Imperva’s Moving Into The Neighborhood

As a local, I’m very excited to be Imperva’s first Belfast hire, in charge of spinning up the operation in our new European location. Imperva provides best-in-class data and application security solutions on premises, in the cloud, and in hybrid environments. As we position ourselves for the next...

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...

Facebook, GDPR and the Right to Privacy: Three’s a Crowd?

Back in 2016 the European Union voted to pass the mother of all security laws, aimed at further extending the rights of its citizens to control how their data is used. The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR guards users against having their information shared without their explicit consent,...

Top Five Trends IT Security Pros Need to Think About Going into 2018

It’s that time of the year when we look back at the tech trends of 2017 to provide us with a hint of things to come. Accordingly, let’s engage in our favorite end-of-year pastime: predictions about the coming year. Equipped with Imperva’s own research, interactions with our customers, and a wealt...