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ADC Hacker Intelligence Initiative

The Imperva Hacker Intelligence Initiative goes inside the cyber-underground and provides analysis of the trending hacking techniques and interesting attack campaigns.

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NEW: Report #16 -- Get What You Give: The Value of Shared Threat Intelligence


Imperva's ADC analyzed real-world traffic from sixty Web applications in order to identify attack patterns. The report demonstrates that, across a community of Web applications, early identification of attack sources and attack payloads can significantly improve the effectiveness of application security. Furthermore, it reduces the cost of decision making with respect to attack traffic across the community. Here's how, based on the traffic analyzed by the ADC:
  • Multiple target SQL attackers generated nearly 6x their share of the population.
  • Multiple target comment spam attackers generated 4.3x their share of the population.
  • Multiple target RFI attackers generated 1.7x their share of the population (this amounted to 73% of total attacks).


Tags: Hackers, Hacking, Web Application Security, Database Security, Application Security, Remote File Inclusion, Local File Inclusion, Comment Spam


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Report #13 -- Monitoring Hacker Forums


Imperva's second annual hacker forum analysis detects black market for social network fraud. By examining what information hackers seek out or share in forums, security teams can better understand where hackers are focusing their efforts. One thing is unmistakable: If organizations neglect SQL injection security, we believe that hackers will place more focus on those attacks.

Tags: Hackers, Hacking, Trends, SQL Injection, Web Application Security, Database Security, Application Security


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Report #5 -- Monitoring Hacker Forums


As a part of Imperva's hacker intelligence initiative, we monitor hacker forums to understand many of the technical aspects of hacking. Forums are the cornerstone of hacking - they are used by hackers for training, communications, collaboration, recruitment, commerce and even social interaction. Forums contain tutorials to help curious neophytes mature their skills. Chat rooms are filled with technical subjects ranging from advice on attack planning and solicitations for help with specific campaigns. Commercially, forums are a marketplace for selling of stolen data and attack software. Most surprisingly, forums build a sense of community where members can engage in discussions on religion, philosophy and relationships.

Tags: Hackers, Hacking, Trends, LulzSec, Hacktivist, DDoS, SQL Injection, Web Application Security, Database Security, Application Security

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