bad bots

Everything You Need To Know About The Latest Imperva Online Fraud Prevention Feature Release
It’s a new year and we have lots of fresh features for Imperva Online Fraud Prevention solution, which encompasses Advanced Bot Protection, Account Takeover Protection, and Client-Side Protection. We have been busy ...

Bots Are Now Robocalling to Phish For Your Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Codes
Phishing for 2FA codes is the latest in specialized bots that make it easier and quicker for fraudsters to fool their targets into providing their authentication codes or OTPs. The post Bots ...

Buyer Beware! Account Takeover Attacks Surging This Shopping Season
The prevalence of Account Takeover (ATO) attacks continues to rise, as the threat creeps its way to the top of the list of security concerns for organizations today. Last year, Imperva recorded ...

13 Cybersecurity Horror Stories to Give you Sleepless Nights
Are we sitting comfortably? Twas a dark and stormy night, and the cybersecurity team stood patiently in their Scrum meeting. “Tell us a tale,” the CISO said, and one of their number ...

Imperva Stops Hordes of Bots from Hijacking Financial Accounts in Largest Recorded Account Takeover Attack
Consider for a moment that an army of bots is setting their sights on your website. They target your login page and hammer it with millions of requests in an ongoing attack ...
Out with the WAF, in with the WAAP
Advanced attacks call for advanced protection Bad actors are constantly discovering new attack vectors to exploit applications. To meet the threat, organizations need enterprise-level security more now than ever. Traditionally, implementing a ...
Why a Resilient Content Delivery Network (CDN) is Key to Website Performance
Today’s online users have built-up certain standards of quality when visiting a website. They expect a high performance website with fast page load times and easily accessible, fresh and dynamic content. They ...
Is it Illegal to Scrape a Website for Content?
Web scraping is the process of using bots to extract information from a website. In recent years, the debate over web scraping is growing more complex as business intelligence and data privacy ...

US Websites Targeted by 40% of the Bad Bot Traffic Worldwide
Bad bot attacks are often the first indicator of fraudulent activity targeting your website. This activity may be over-the-top, like validating stolen user credentials and credit card information to later be sold ...
Bots Hide Behind User Privacy – Should You Be Concerned?
Bot operators are perpetually devising innovative techniques to sneak past security as they go about their dubious, often downright illegal business. Emulating human behavior and traffic patterns are key elements of their ...