Somebody’s watching! When cameras are more than just ‘smart’
Every year the number of smart devices grows. Coffee machines, bracelets, fridges, cars and loads of other useful gadgets have now gone smart. We...
Masha and these Bears
Sofacy, also known as APT28, Fancy Bear, and Tsar Team, is a prolific, well resourced, and persistent adversary. They are sometimes portrayed as wild...
The Slingshot APT FAQ
While analysing an incident which involved a suspected keylogger, we identified a malicious library able to interact with a virtual file system, which is...
The devil’s in the Rich header
In our previous blog, we detailed our findings on the attack against the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics. For this investigation, our analysts were provided...
Financial Cyberthreats in 2017
In 2017, we saw a number of changes to the world of financial threats and new actors emerging. As we have previously noted, fraud...
IoT hack: how to break a smart home… again
There can never be too many IoT gadgets – that’s what people usually think when buying yet another connected device with advanced functionality. From...
Tax refund, or How to lose your remaining cash
Every year, vast numbers of people around the globe relish the delightful prospect of filling out tax returns, applying for tax refunds, etc. Given...
A Slice of 2017 Sofacy Activity
Sofacy, also known as APT28, Fancy Bear, and Tsar Team, is a highly active and prolific APT. From their high volume 0day deployment to...
Spam and phishing in 2017
Figures of the year
The share of spam in mail traffic came to 56.63%, down 1.68% against 2016.
The biggest source of spam remains the US...
A vulnerable driver: lesson almost learned
Recently, we started receiving suspicious events from our internal sandbox Exploit Checker plugin. Our heuristics for supervisor mode code execution in the user address...
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Attackers Are Quick to Exploit vBulletin’s Latest 0-day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Imperva’s Cloud WAF has identified instances of a new 0-day vulnerability being exploited within a matter of hours of the exploit being published.
On Monday...
Ransomware: two pieces of good news
“All your files have been encrypted.” How many times has this suddenly popped up on your screen? We hope never, because it’s one of...
A Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAF, Six Years Running
Gartner has published its 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and Imperva has been named a Leader for the sixth consecutive...
