bad bots
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 ...
ATO Attacks Targeting Financial Services Increased 58 Percent in May. Who Else Needs to Worry?
Account takeover (ATO) is a form of identity theft that cyber criminals use to get unauthorized access to the accounts of legitimate users through some kind of brute force method such as ...
Natural Language Processing and “Mindful” AI Drive More Sophisticated Bad Bot Attacks
The evolution from human to bot attacks Over the last several years of my career in cyber security, I have been fortunate to work with professionals who researched and developed new cyber ...
Imperva Introduces New Features to Help Prevent Online Fraud
As we move more of our daily activities and the services we consume online, the threat of fraud grows, and the risks become greater. Data suggests the majority of organizations are already ...
How to Reduce the Risk of Buy Now, Pay Later Fraud
According to a recent FinTech trends report, 2022 is expected to be a big year for Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL). Apple’s recent announcement of its entry into BNPL with Apple Pay ...
