
How to Develop Machine Learning Skills for Every Employee in Your Company
Everyone loves Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science (DS), and it’s probably not going to change for the next decade or so. Even so, most people only have the general idea what data science is and what machine learning or AI algorithms can do. This is quite normal and a ... Read More

Lessons learned building supervised machine learning into DDoS Protection
Imperva’s Data Scientists trained a machine-learning model to auto-configure DDoS security policies and this blog shares some of the lessons learned along the way. Data scientists consider labeled data the gold standard and, despite having to filter out anomalies, there is an overall tendency to trust it. In training a ... Read More

Imperva SD-SOC: How Using AI and Time Series Traffic Improves DDoS Mitigation
Much has changed since we first started providing protection against DDoS attacks. Attacks which were once considered huge are now mitigated on a daily basis, attackers are becoming more sophisticated by the day, and mitigation takes a matter of seconds, as opposed to minutes, to kick in. But one thing ... Read More

DDoS Attacks Grow More Sophisticated as Imperva Mitigates Largest Attack
Only a few months ago Imperva reported mitigating against two of the largest DDoS attacks of 2020. However, in the past few weeks we’ve observed a rise in the number of DDoS attacks against our customers where both the volume of attacks and their level of intensity have increased significantly ... Read More

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 ... Read More

The Challenges of DIY Botnet Detection – and How to Overcome Them
Botnets have been around for over two decades, and with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) they have spread further to devices no one imagined they would – printers, webcams, and even toasters and fridges. Some botnets enlist infected devices to mine cryptocurrency or steal passwords from other ... Read More

Scapy-sploit: Python Network Tool is Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) Attack CVE pending
We recently discovered that the latest version of Scapy, a powerful packet manipulation tool used by cybersecurity researchers and network engineers, is susceptible to a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability. Ironically, we found this vulnerability while researching ways to better detect and fight DDoS attacks. Written in the very popular ... Read More

The World’s Most Popular Coding Language Happens to be Most Hackers’ Weapon of Choice
Python will soon be the world’s most prevalent coding language. That’s quite a statement, but if you look at its simplicity, flexibility and the relative ease with which folks pick it up, it’s not hard to see why The Economist recently touted it as the soon-to-be most used language, globally ... Read More

Fortnite Scammers Approaching $1m in Annual Takings
When something seems too good to be true, it probably is. It’s a hard lesson to learn and, in this case, one that’s being taught by scammers. The perpetrators are abusing the fact that online players of Battle Royale games may be very eager to get free in-game currency and ... Read More

A WordPress SPAMbot Wants You to Bet on the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Our researchers recently picked up on a spike in SPAM activity directed at sites powered by WordPress, which, naturally, led them to take a closer look. Turns out the attack was launched by a botnet and implemented in the form of comment SPAM – meaningless, generic text generated from a ... Read More