Do Any HTTP Clients Not Support SNI?

In this blog post, we’ll share the results of an internal research project we conducted on our CDN customers focused on websites that are getting non-Server Name Indication SNI traffic. The goal of our research was to answer the following questions: How much non-SNI traffic is seen? What is the...

Improving Cybersecurity: Different Certifications Explained

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the choice of cryptographic algorithms and certificates plays a pivotal role in ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information. While traditional methods such as the RSA public-key cryptosystem have been the cornerstone of secu...

Optimizing Data Lakes: Streamlining Storage with Effective Object Management

Data lakes are a popular solution for data storage, and for good reason. Data lakes are flexible and cost effective, as they allow multiple query engines and many object formats without the need to manage resources like disks, CPUs, and memory. In a data lake, data is simply stored in an object...

Imperva uncovers new Indicators of Compromise for FBI and CISA-flagged AndroxGh0st botnet

On January 16, a joint alert from FBI and CISA warned about a concerning development: the emergence of a botnet driven by AndroxGh0st malware targeting vulnerable applications and web servers. AndroxGh0st is a Python-based malware, first seen in late 2022, designed to target Laravel .env files an...

Imperva customers are protected against the recent GoAnywhere MFT vulnerability CVE-2024-0204

Recently, Fortra released a security advisory for CVE-2024-0204, a GoAnywhere MFT authentication bypass vulnerability. This bug allows an unauthenticated attacker to create an administrative user by exploiting an InitialAccountSetup.xhtml endpoint–accessible via path traversal–to initiate the...

Are You Ready for PCI DSS 4.0?

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS is the global benchmark for ensuring companies that handle credit card information maintain a secure environment. It provides a framework to help organizations protect sensitive cardholder data from theft and secure payment card systems. In...

Python’s Poisoned Package: Another ‘Blank Grabber’ Malware in PyPI

Python Package Index PyPI is a platform that offers an extensive range of packages to simplify and enhance the development process. Malicious actors regularly upload phishing packages in the platform’s repository aimed at delivering malware to steal the victims information, or more frequently, to...

HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Mitigation With Imperva WAF

In the modern application landscape, where businesses are constantly under the threat of cyber attacks, one of the most recent to emerge is HTTP/2 Rapid Reset CVE-2023-44487, a type of Distributed Denial-of-Service DDoS attack. This attack is larger than any previously reported application layer...

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...

How Cache Purge Helps Keep Your Website Content Fresh and Responsive

Content Delivery Networks CDNs accelerate web traffic across the internet through servers residing in strategic locations known as points of presence or PoPs across the globe. Each PoP has a number of caching servers, each of which contains a cached version of your website or application. By...

Shifting from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha

We are adding another CAPTCHA vendor and helping our customers migrate from Googles reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha. Why We Are Making This Change We continuously evaluate our security measures to ensure they align with the evolving landscape of threats. After carefully evaluating several different CAPTCHA...

CVE-2023-50164: A Critical Vulnerability in Apache Struts

On December 7, 2023, Apache released a security advisory regarding CVE-2023-50164, a critical vulnerability in Apache Struts with CVSS score 9.8. Versions from 2.5.0 to 2.5.32 and 6.0.0 to 6.3.0 were affected. Apache Struts is a popular, free, open-source framework that is used in the creation of...

CVE-2023-22524: RCE Vulnerability in Atlassian Companion for macOS

TL;DR This blog unveils a remote code execution vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-22524, in Atlassian Companion for macOS, which has recently been patched. This critical vulnerability stemmed from an ability to bypass both the apps blocklist and macOS Gatekeeper, potentially allowing the...

Imperva Detects Undocumented 8220 Gang Activities

Imperva Threat Research has detected previously undocumented activity from the 8220 gang, which is known for the mass deployment of malware using a variety of continuously evolving TTPs. This threat actor has been known to target both Windows and Linux web servers with cryptojacking malware. In...

Are HTTP Content-Security-Policy (CSP) Headers Sufficient to Secure Your Client Side?

Modern web frameworks have shifted business logic from the server side to the client side web browser, enhancing performance, flexibility, and user experience. However, this move introduces security and privacy concerns, as exposing sensitive logic and data can lead to vulnerabilities like code...

2024 Predictions for Cybersecurity: The Rise of AI Brings New Challenges

The emergence of generative AI has put new resources in the hands of both attackers and defenders, and in 2024, Imperva believes the technology will have an even greater impact. Understanding how attackers are leveraging the technology will be critical for organizations seeking to keep...

Is Web Scraping Illegal? Depends on Who You Ask

Web scraping has existed for a long time, and depending on who you ask, it can be loved or hated. But where is the line drawn between extracting data for legitimate business purposes and malicious data extraction that hurts business? The bar is getting blurrier by the day, and the introduction of...

Imperva Named an Overall Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: API Security and Management Report

Imperva named an Overall Leader Were thrilled to share that Imperva has achieved the prestigious status of Overall Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: API Security and Management report. Our Leadership excels across the sub-categories of Product, Innovation, and Market Leadership and ...

Imperva & Thales: Pioneering a New Era in Cybersecurity

Imperva has been a beacon of excellence for over twenty years in the digital protection landscape, where innovation is paramount. Renowned for its groundbreaking products, Imperva has not just secured applications, APIs, and data for the worlds leading organizations but has done so with incredibl...

Accelerating Cloud-Native Data Security Deployments at Scale with Imperva’s eDSF Kit

Todays evolving digital landscape and the rapid expansion of cloud technologies have necessitated a shift in the approach of deploying and managing data security across multiple platforms. Traditional methods of manual deployment of data activity monitoring, risk analytics, and threat detection...

Imperva Successfully Mitigates Record-Breaking DDoS Attack in Retail Industry

In the dynamic world of cybersecurity, November 13, 2023, marked a significant milestone for Imperva as we successfully mitigated the largest application-layer DDoS attack we’ve ever recorded in the retail industry. The target was a prominent Indonesian eCommerce platform, known for its diverse...

Five Takeaways from Black Friday & Cyber Monday Cyber Attacks

The online retail industry is one of the prime targets for cybercrime, as detailed in our annual analysis of the cybersecurity threats targeting eCommerce websites and applications. As the 2023 holiday shopping season continues, Imperva Threat Research is closely monitoring how cybercriminals are...

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...

Online Retailers: Five Threats Targeting Your Business This Holiday Shopping Season

As the holiday season approaches, a palpable sense of joy and anticipation fills the air. Twinkling lights adorn homes, the aroma of freshly baked cookies wafts through the kitchen, and the sound of laughter and carolers melodies resonate on frosty evenings. Its a time when families come together...

Imperva Expands Global Network, Adds First PoP in Vietnam

We are delighted to announce our first Point of Presence PoP in Hanoi, Vietnam, expanding our global network with our 16th PoP located in the Asia Pacific & Japan APJ region. Alongside its rich culture and historic sites, Hanoi, the enchanting capital city of Vietnam, is a bustling business cente...

Navigating the Sea, Exploiting DigitalOcean APIs

Cloud service providers are now fundamental elements of internet infrastructure, granting organizations and individuals the ability to scale and efficiently store, manage, and process data. DigitalOcean is one such provider, well-regarded for its simplicity and developer-friendly platform, and...

Imperva customers are protected against CVE-2023-22518 in Confluence Data Center and Server

Atlassian released patches for the recently released vulnerability CVE-2023-22518 in their Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server products. This is a critical vulnerability, allowing attackers to bypass the authentication mechanism to potentially gain unauthorized access to sensitive...

New Secaucus Point of Presence Increases Resilience for Financial Services

We are thrilled to announce the opening of a new cutting-edge Point of Presence PoP in Secaucus, New Jersey, which adds resilience to our network infrastructure located in the Northeastern United States region. This PoP represents the first build using next generation technology designed to...

Why Bad Bots Are the Digital Demons of the Internet

In the dimly lit corners of the internet, where shadows flicker and eerie silences prevail, there lurks entities of malevolent intent. They are not the stuff of old wives tales or campfire ghost stories. We’re talking about bad bots, the digital bogeymen of the digital age. These nefarious beings...

Imperva Customers are Protected Against the Latest F5 BIG-IP Vulnerability

Imperva is tracking the recent critical security vulnerability impacting F5’s BIG-IP solution. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-46747, could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and potentially compromise the system via request smuggling. Imperva Threat Research has been actively monitoring this...

The Haunted House of IoT: When Everyday Devices Turn Against You

In todays interconnected world, the Internet of Things IoT promises convenience and innovation. From smart fridges that tell you when youre out of milk to connected light bulbs that adjust to your mood, the future seems to be right at our fingertips. What happens when these devices, designed to...

Analysis: A Ransomware Attack on a PostgreSQL Database

In 2017, we reported on a database ransomware campaign targeting MySQL and MongoDB. Since then, we’ve observed similar attack tactics on a PostgreSQL database in Imperva Threat Research lab. In general, the attack flow contained: A brute force attack on the database for known users and weak...

Database Ransomware: From Attack to Recovery

Introduction In recent years, ransomware attacks have risen sharply, due to their profitability, ease of access with ransomware-as-a-service RaaS tools, and an increasing attack surface. Ransomware is a type of attack in which the attacker locks and encrypts a victim’s data and then demands a...

Breaking the Chain of Data Access: The Importance of Separating Human and Application Users

Data, the lifeblood of any organization, relies on the database as its beating heart. As a result, businesses invest heavily in designing and monitoring all access to it. In traditional literature, there are two types of users: administrative users, who manage the entire lifecycle of a database...

How to use DSF Collections & Index Patterns – A Tutorial

In conventional terminology, Imperva Data Security Fabric DSF is a database system, replete with a GUI interface for aggregation pipeline building, workflow orchestration, extensible scripting Playbooks, and self-service data discovery Kibana-based Discover. Imperva DSF is purpose-built for data...

DDoS Attacks Leveraged by Attackers in Israel Conflict

Over the last few years, we’ve observed Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks used in many conflicts. In the Russia-Ukraine war, DDoS was used both by government cyber agencies and individual hacktivist groups to disrupt the flow of information and deface sites to promote propaganda. The...

Recent Vulnerabilities in Popular Applications Blocked by Imperva

Multiple vulnerabilities in popular and widespread applications have been disclosed recently, tracked as CVE-2023-36845, CVE-2023-40044, CVE-2023-42793, CVE-2023-29357, and CVE-2023-22515. These vulnerabilities, which affect several products and can be exploited to allow arbitrary code execution,...

Atlassian CVE-2023-22515 Blocked by Imperva

Atlassian, an Australian software company, has released emergency security updates to address a severe zero-day vulnerability in its Confluence Data Center and Server software. This vulnerability is actively being exploited, allowing attackers to create unauthorized Confluence administrator...

Why Cool Dashboards Don’t Equal Effective Security Analytics

Mark Twain once said, “Data is like garbage. You’d better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.” This statement rings true in todays cybersecurity landscape. Security professionals are inundated with a flood of data, and often, they dont know how to make sense of it. To add...

Protecting Against HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: CVE-2023-44487

Today, Google disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol. Imperva collaborated proactively with Google to gain advanced insights into this vulnerability. After a comprehensive inspection of this vulnerability by Imperva’s Product Development and Threat Research teams, we can confir...

How to Protect Against Data Lake Hacking

Data lakes, or centralized repositories for large-scale data, are a popular solution for data storage, and there are good reasons for that. Data lakes are flexible and cost-effective, as they allow many object formats and multiple query engines, and there is no need to manage or pay for resources...

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...

The Dark Side of Web Development: Why You Should Be Prioritizing Shadow Code

In the fast-paced world of web development, staying ahead of the curve is paramount, as developers are frequently under pressure to deliver products and functionalities quickly and efficiently. To meet accelerated timelines, they often leverage third-party scripts and open-source libraries,...

How to Predict Customer Churn Using SQL Pattern Detection

Introduction to SQLs MATCHRECOGNIZE Clause SQL is a great way to perform analysis on your data. It is very common and supported by many database engines including big data solutions. SQL is used in many cases to analyze data in our data lake. However, when it comes to pattern detection, SQL...

GraphQL Vulnerabilities and Common Attacks: What You Need to Know

GraphQL is a powerful query language for APIs that has gained popularity in recent years for its flexibility and ability to provide a great developer experience. However, with the rise of GraphQL usage comes the potential for security vulnerabilities and attacks. In this blog post, we will descri...

Imperva Clinches 2023 SC Media Trust Award for Best Database Security Solution: A Back-to-Back Victory

Imperva, a global leader in cybersecurity, is proud to announce that we have once again been honored for our industry-leading database security solutions, earning the prestigious 2023 SC Media Trust Award for Best Database Security Solution. This accolade marks the second consecutive year that...

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 ...

Applying Data Ontology Concepts to Protect Data

Data breaches continue to be the thorn for most organizations despite the sophisticated and innovative cybersecurity tools that are used to stop what is now the inevitable cost of doing business in a hyperconnected world. In this blog post, I’ll explain how organizations can increase the...

Behind the Scenes of a Tailor-Made Massive Phishing Campaign

A global phishing campaign caught our attention after one of our colleagues was targeted by, and nearly fell victim, to a social engineering attack. The campaign involved more than 800 different scam domains and impersonated around 340 legitimate companies all over the world – including well-know...

How Generative AI Will Transform Cybersecurity

One of the most promising developments in the fight against cybersecurity threats is the use of artificial intelligence AI. This cutting-edge technology has the potential to revolutionize the way organizations manage cyberthreats, offering unprecedented levels of protection and adaptability. AI i...