Imperva Shields Against Windows DNS Server RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1350)

Recently, Check Point researchers found a 17-year-old high-profile flaw, SIGRed CVE-2020-1350. The flaw is a wormable, critical vulnerability in the Windows DNS server, and can be triggered by a malicious DNS response. On a zero to 10 scale, this vulnerability has received a CVSS base score of 10...

The Anatomy of Massive Application Layer DDoS Attacks

During 2020 between June 18 and June 24 Imperva mitigated massive 200K RPS Request Per Second attacks on a daily basis. Here at Imperva we investigate major attacks we mitigated in order to gain a better understanding of their anatomy and allow for smarter mitigation. In this blog post we’ll...

DDoS Protection for Networks: Combatting Local Preference from ISPs

One of the most common issues we have seen when onboarding customers to our DDoS Protection for Networks service is when a customer’s ISP implements a high local preference. This prevents the Internet from recognizing that Imperva is the best path. Local Preference Local preference is one of the...

How bad bots are targeting the healthcare sector

Credential cracking, or password spraying, is one of the most effective ways for cybercriminals to get access to user accounts. It refers to the brute-force automated cracking, or pairing of usernames and passwords by using sophisticated high-speed bots. According to a National Cyber Awareness...

Introducing Imperva Cloud Data Security

We are excited to announce that our latest data security innovation is now available worldwide! Made for the cloud, Imperva Cloud Data Security CDS builds on our industry-leading application and data security solutions, providing an industry-first, complete cloud data SaaS security solution that...

Australian Cyber Attack Vectors Blocked Out of the Box by Imperva WAF

On June 18, 2020, the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC released a disclosure detailing a ‘sophisticated’ and sustained attack against Australian government bodies and companies. The disclosure was covered by several mainstream media outlets including the BBC, and the Guardian. The following...

Why should you worry about DNS attacks?

Domain Name System DNS is a very basic protocol and service that enables Internet users and network devices to discover websites using human-readable hostnames instead of numeric IP addresses. This article provides a detailed explanation of how DNS works. If the DNS service is attacked or doesn’t...

Imperva Prevents Client-Side Attacks like Formjacking and Magecart

The Blindspot of Web Security is Client-side Code One of the troubling blindspots for security teams is third party JavaScript services embedded on a website. The popularity of JavaScript services used by developers and marketing teams means this blindspot is hiding an expanding attack service. I...

DDoS Protection for Networks: Divert Traffic Using More Specific Routing

In our previous blog post, we talked about AS autonomous system prepending, but sometimes a customer might have restrictions that would not allow them to use AS prepending. If the customer owned more than a less specific prefix, for example /23 prefix, they could advertise a more specific route...

Key Elements for DDoS Detection, Mitigation and Analysis

Given today’s volatile DDoS threat landscape with attacks ranging from massive volumetric assaults to sophisticated and persistent application level threats, comprehensive protection is a must for online businesses. But what are the most important considerations for evaluating potential solutions...

DDoS Protection for Networks: Utilizing AS Prepending to Route Traffic Through Imperva

In order for Imperva to protect customers’ traffic using DDoS Protection for Networks, the Internet must select Imperva as the best path. So what does this mean? Does Imperva automatically take over the customer’s prefix and control the routing of the Internet? Well…not exactly. Internet Routing...

Open Banking Around the World

Open Banking, the practice of sharing financial data with competitors and third parties via open APIs, offers many benefits for consumers who not only have more control over their data, but who can now manage their finances much more efficiently. What started with the European Union Payment...

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...

Implementing Privacy in a Real World Application

Background Whenever Personally Identifiable Information PII is involved, it is wise to encrypt it from the get go. Strong encryption coupled with need-to-know access is key to gaining the trust of your customers and protecting their privacy. And it’s often required by ever-evolving data privacy...

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...

Imperva Takes on its Largest Recorded Account Takeover Attack on a Single Company

Imperva recently detected and mitigated the largest - and most concentrated - series of brute force ATO account takeover attacks in its history. Over the course of 60 hours from midnight on October 28, our ATO team’s monitoring systems detected more than 44 million ATO attempts on the login page ...

Smart Mesh Topology Boosts Capacity and Performance

Recently we introduced our advanced architectural topology for ensuring that traffic inspection and request logs are maintained within the region. This capability is especially beneficial to our customers who need to meet certain regional compliance requirements, as is the case in Australia and...

Pinpoint and Act Upon “Bad Reputation” IPs

There’s no question that today’s cyber attackers use increasingly sophisticated methods in order to disrupt business or steal private data. And faced with so many attacks from various sources, IT professionals are forced to constantly challenge themselves to identify those alerts more critical th...

Is Your AWS Data Secure and Compliant? Cloud Database Visibility in Minutes

Internal and external attackers are after your data. Regardless of where the data resides, cloud, or on-premises, you need to protect it. In some cases that data needs to be put under compliance controls. Data protection principles hold for data hosted in the cloud database as a service DBaaS. Fo...

Hybrid DDoS Protection is Like a Faulty Airbag

We know that some businesses are the target of constant DDoS attacks, while others face attacks less frequently. If your company falls on the side of less-frequent attacks or having never been attacked at all, you might be wondering, “does the threat still exist?” And “does it exist to the level ...

Python and Go Top the Chart of 2019’s Most Popular Hacking Tools

Imperva Cloud WAF protects over a hundred thousand websites globally and observes around a billion of attacks daily. We detect thousands of hacking tools on a daily basis and employ various measures to stop malicious requests. Here are the most dangerous tools and attacks we discover while...

How Imperva Advanced Mesh Topology Keeps Canadian Data In-Country

The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act PIPEDA is a Canadian federal law that sets out how organizations can collect, use and disclose personal information in the course of commercial activity. While PIPEDA does not prohibit the transfer of personal information outside of...

When Bandwidth Doesn’t Last

Introduction Imperva’s Cloud WAF networking team went through a major transition from an operation team to a development team during the SDN era. We saw new products emerging for our network infrastructure - moving from manual operation to automatic. But, while the change of mindset from being an...

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...

Imperva Cloud WAF Customers Can Easily Integrate Advanced Bot Protection for Increased Security

Almost 25% of web traffic is bad bots, and only growing both in volume and sophistication. This information and more is available in Imperva’s annual Bad Bot Report 2020. What are bad bots? They are not benign. Bad bots plague websites, mobile applications, and APIs with the goal of high-speed an...

Imperva Poised to Deliver its Leading Advanced Bot Protection and Network Security in India

With a presence in India since 2017, Imperva is continuing to provide a level of security excellence in the region. With Asia in general as both the target and source of most network DDoS attacks, and India topping the list for the first time in our latest DDoS threat landscape report, this is mo...

Advanced Bot Protection integrated into Imperva’s Cloud Application Security

Today, Imperva announced the general availability of Advanced Bot Protection that now fully integrates the industry-leading bot protection technology into its Cloud Application Security platform. By integrating Advanced Bot Protection this enables true defense-in-depth security by delivering bot...

More Insights on The Global DDoS Threat Landscape

Recently, edge services product manager David Elmaleh and Imperva Research Labs’ data scientist Johnathan Azaria shared their DDoS knowledge in a live BrightTalk webinar about the current threat landscape and what you need to do to ensure you are adequately prepared. David and Johnathan not only...

Bad Bot Report 2020: Bad Bots Strike Back

The 7th Annual Bad Bot Report is now available from Imperva. Prepared by data from Imperva’s Threat Research Lab, it provides a comprehensive look at the bad bot landscape and the impact of this malicious traffic across multiple industries. Bad bot traffic rose to 24.1%, it’s highest proportion...

New Cyber Threat Index Shows Industries Are Under Attack in Uncertain Times

It has been more than a month since businesses around the world started to implement contingencies in response to the Coronavirus. The Cyber Threat Index Report by Imperva Research Labs tracks changes in traffic and attack trends across multiple industries and countries. This month’s edition look...

The 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report: Simplify Security with Unified Tools and Monitoring

The CyberEdge Group’s recently released 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report CDR details findings based on a survey of 1200 security IT professionals from around the globe. Although multiple key takeaways emerged from analyzing their perceptions and insights, it’s worth digging a little further into o...

Imperva is a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Web Application Firewalls, Q1

Web application firewalls continue to be a core technology function for securing critical assets, and for IT professionals, market analyst reports and validation are critical when deciding upon new WAF solutions. That’s why we’re proud to share that Imperva Cloud WAF has recently been recognized ...

New Imperva Framework: Accelerating the development of large scale solutions with “Stepping”

Handling large amounts of data at scale is a common task in the high-tech industry nowadays. To address this challenge many frameworks have been developed and made publicly available such as distributed messaging queues, distributed databases, lightweight protocols and caching servers, among...

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...

Imperva Boosts Capacity to Meet Demand in Malaysia

Imperva is enhancing support for its customers in Asia by increasing capacity at its PoP in Kuala Lumpur KL, Malaysia. Home to hundreds of multinational companies, KL’s thriving high-tech economy and strong financial center positions it well as a global hot-spot for business. Imperva is boosting...

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...

Surge in online traffic increases risk to businesses

Imperva Research Labs has been monitoring the data across our thousands of customers since the outbreak of COVID-19. In reviewing anonymized data from our CyberThreat Index, we see new risks and several initial security implications from this pandemic for our customers and global businesses. We...

COVID-19 affects everyone: we’re here to help.

A message from our Chief Executive Officer, Pam Murphy: All of us at Imperva wish you good health and safety as the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak continues to unfold. As we respond to the ongoing crisis, we have established the following core principles to keep us focused on what's important:...

Imperva Wants to Hear From YOU!

Imperva is pleased to announce UserVoice, a new product feedback system that allows YOU to shape the future of Imperva product lines. UserVoice empowers Imperva users to share feedback and ideas in one comprehensive, crowd-sourced place where they can also see and react to the ideas others submit...

Deploy a Cloud WAF & DDoS Solution While Complying with Australian Data Sovereignty

Australia has strict data sovereignty laws in place to ensure that personal customer data remains within the country’s borders. However, we often hear about cloud-based WAF vendors being unable to guarantee that data will not be moved across borders for inspection and data logging purposes. This...

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:...

Reputation Intelligence At Your Fingertips

How important is a reputation? American entertainer Will Rogers once famously said, “it takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.” Our reputations are valuable commodities that establish rapport and clout among our colleagues, partners, and customers. A good...

Lift the DDoS Smokescreen: Investigate Underlying Attacks

"Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him." Sun Tzu The sophistication of cybercriminals and the attraction of the “Black Hat” cyberspace have grown dramatically over the years. In the past, cyber assaults were carried out mostly by amateurs, motivated by boredom or plain...

Imperva Launches the Cyber Threat Index

Today, we are proud to announce the launch of the Cyber Threat Index, a new online information portal from the minds of our threat researchers at Imperva Research Labs. The current Cyber Threat Index is 776. This is categorized as High and is up 8 percent since December. But what is the Cyber...

The Resurrection of PHPUnit RCE Vulnerability

Once a software patch is released, we tend to believe it means “problem solved”. Most of the time, however, this is not actually the case. Fully solving the problem requires all developers to grab the latest patch version and deploy it in their environment. Since upgrading isn’t an especially...

How we productized our staging environment and survived to tell the tale

Managing the Imperva SaaS infrastructure is like herding cats. There are so many moving parts, new developments, testing, fixing bugs, patching, reducing our SLAs, fighting the bad guys and, most importantly, pushing our latest and greatest to production every week. And it all runs like clockwork...

I know where you rode last summer: Uncovering the security issues of shared scooter services

We recently discovered flaws in the security of shared electric scooter services that have worrying implications for the safety and privacy of their users. Not only is it possible to remotely ring the bells of scooters all over the world, but external parties are able to track the location and...

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...

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...

Imperva Received Top Scores in Gartner’s “Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web Application Firewalls”

The web application landscape is constantly changing, and the tools needed for the best application security protection need to change with the landscape. With Imperva’s recent improvements in API Security, Bot Management, DDoS and Cloud WAF, it’s easy to see why we are among the highest-scored...