5 Romance Fraud Schemes Made Possible by Account Generation Bots
This Valentine’s Day, bot operators don’t have love on the brain, just money on their mind (yes, a cheesy, but timely Rihanna reference). Romance [...]
3 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2023 [Backed By Data]
Co-authored by Kasada's Threat Intelligence Team Bots have gained massive popularity in the media as Elon Musk made it his personal mission to get rid [...]
How Bots Impacted 2022 Holiday Sales
The holiday sales data is in! As anticipated, bad bot activity ramped up around the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales events again this year. [...]
Freebie Bots: The Latest Threat to Retailers this Holiday Season and Beyond
Special Thanks to Kasada Research and Threat Intelligence Team for their contributions and insights Introduction: What are Freebie Bots? Steep discounts drove Cyber Monday online [...]
Kasada Details the Latest Threat to Retailers this Holiday Season – Freebie Bots
Freebie Bots Make it Easy to Locate and Purchase Erroneously Priced In-Demand Goods at a Massive Discount, Impacting Hundreds of Retailers’ Revenues and Infrastructure Costs [...]
4 Types of Web Scraping & Why They’re So Difficult to Stop
The most common automated threat we defend our customers against and have observed across the internet is web scraping. It’s even more common than account [...]
Why I Joined Kasada: Redefining Application Security
Automated threats to websites, mobile apps, and APIs aren’t new at all. But that’s what makes the current state of Application Security and API Security [...]
Top Holiday Retail Threats: What to Watch out for in 2022
Cyberattacks and retail threats your organization should be prepared for and what actions you can take. It’s almost that time of year again, holiday season, [...]
The Truth About Your Bot Detection’s Threat Intelligence
A paradigm shift in bot detection The traditional data used to differentiate between humans and bots can no longer be trusted. This new paradigm creates [...]
Bots Breaking Bad: Stolen Pharmacy Accounts Up for Sale
By Kasada Threat Research Team Using Bots to Steal Pharmacy Accounts and Resell Prescriptions For the first time, Kasada threat intelligence observed the use of [...]
The Emergence of Solver Services: The New Way Fraudsters Bypass Bot Management Vendors
We need to talk about a dirty not-so-little secret in the bot mitigation industry. Enterprising actors in the underground bot economy are creating and selling [...]
Spring4Shell Zero-Day Vulnerability: While You’re Waiting for Your WAF
Spring4Shell CVE-2022-22965 A newly disclosed remote code execution vulnerability in Spring Core, a widely used Java framework, has been identified. Exploitation of CVE-2022-22965 has been [...]
Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) Fraud – Stopping Automated Attacks While Reducing Friction
The Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) industry is still relatively new, but accounted for 2.1% of all global e-commerce transactions in 2021 (nearly $97 billion) [...]
Detecting Automated Vulnerability Scanners: Log4j Zero-Day Vulnerability Case Study
Log4j CVE-2021-44228 Since its discovery, much has already been said about the vulnerability discovered within the Log4j logging framework, CVE-2021-44228. Similar to Heartbleed and Shellshock [...]
Valentine’s Day 2022 – Kiss Bad Bots Goodbye
With the first major eCommerce holiday of the year rapidly approaching, Valentine’s Day is projected to surpass last year’s sales of $21 billion USD, nearly [...]