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From ChatBot To SpyBot: ChatGPT Post Exploitation
In the second installment of our blog post series on ChatGPT, we delve deeper into the security implications that come with the integration of AI into our daily routines. Building on the ...
New Sysrv Botnet Variant Makes Use of Google Subdomain to Spread XMRig Miner
Sysrv is a well-documented botnet first identified in 2020, with the main payload being a worm written in Golang. It drops a cryptominer onto infected hosts before attempting to propagate itself using ...
Imperva Customers are Protected Against New SQL Injection Vulnerability in WordPress Plugin
A critical security flaw, identified as CVE-2024-1071, was discovered in the Ultimate Member plugin for WordPress, affecting over 200,000 active installations. This vulnerability has a high severity CVSS score of 9.8 and ...
Imperva successfully defends against CVE-2024-25600 in WordPress Bricks Builder
A critical vulnerability in the Bricks Builder site builder for WordPress, identified as CVE-2024-25600, is currently under active exploitation, and poses a significant threat to over 25,000 sites. This flaw, with a ...
Threat Hunting Powered by Efficient and Straightforward Anomaly Detection on Your Data Lake
Effective monitoring and anomaly detection within a data environment are crucial, particularly in today’s data-driven landscape. At Imperva Threat Research, our data lake serves as the backbone for a range of critical ...
Attackers Quick to Weaponize CVE-2023-22527 for Malware Delivery
On January 16, 2024, Atlassian disclosed a critical vulnerability affecting Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server, tracked as CVE-2023-22527. The vulnerability is an unauthenticated OGNL injection bug, allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute ...
XSS Marks the Spot: Digging Up Vulnerabilities in ChatGPT
With its widespread use among businesses and individual users, ChatGPT is a prime target for attackers looking to access sensitive information. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through my discovery of ...
Hacking Microsoft and Wix with Keyboard Shortcuts
Browser vendors continuously tweak and refine browser functionalities to improve security. Implementing same-site cookies is a prime example of vendors’ efforts to mitigate Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. However, not all security ...
Python’s Colorama Typosquatting Meets ‘Fade Stealer’ Malware
As our hunt against malicious Python packages continues, Imperva Threat Research recently discovered an attempt to masquerade Fade Stealer malware as a nondescript package, Colorama. Why Colorama? Colorama is a package used ...
Security Flaw in CoCalc: One Click and Your Cloud is Ruined
TL;DR Imperva Threat Research discovered and reported a security flaw in the CoCalc Cloud environment. The flaw enabled potential attackers to completely take over a target’s account with only a single click ...
