Bot Defense

Moving from Threat Hunting to Threat Catching

The goal of a Threat Hunter is to find an attacker in the middle of an attack before they can…

4 days ago

Tales from the Front Lines: Large Retailer Achieves Near Immediate Time-to-Value

One of our newest customers is a large, community-based retailer that had a mobile application and API account takeover problem.…

4 weeks ago

Get Ready— It’s Almost Bots Attack Week!

All next week, experts from Cequence Security will be sharing key threat research findings and best-practice recommendations for protecting your…

3 months ago

Tales from the Front Lines: Maintaining Detection Efficacy (and Your Cool) in the Summer Heat

In a previous blog, I talked about how the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown had corresponded to an increase in attack intensity.…

4 months ago

Help! There’s an OpenBullet Attack Config for Our Site – What Should we Do?

Thinly veiled as a web testing tool, OpenBullet a commonly used attack management toolkit that allows a bad actor to…

5 months ago

Looking for a Silver Tail Replacement?

When RSA Security announced end-of-life (EOL) for Silver Tail, a popular fraud prevention product, they left a lot of customers…

6 months ago

Tales from the Front Lines: Attackers Target APIs with GET-Based ATOs

This blog will describe how account takeovers (ATO) can be executed against APIs using GET methods, as opposed to POST.…

6 months ago

Tales from the Frontlines: Increasingly Sophisticated Cat and Mouse Games

The last Tales from the Frontlines post focused on a single customer and the attack volume increase they experienced following…

6 months ago

Tales from the Front Lines: Why Simple Attacks Like Content Scraping are the Hardest to Block

Of all of the automated business logic abuse attacks, the simple act of copying and pasting content from one web…

7 months ago

Simplifying Bot Prevention with CDN Integration

Nearly every customer we speak with is in the process of executing a cloud migration initiative. In many cases, the…

8 months ago