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News Apr 24 2025

Security Week Cybersecurity firm Imperva found that bots account for 51% of all Internet traffic, with 37% classified as malicious. The report revealed that 44% of all advanced bots are targeted at APIs, with account takeover attacks up 40% year over year. Of API bot attacks, the most common are focused on data scraping (31%), […]

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News Nov 7 2024

Sophos Surveils Chinese Hackers Targeting Firewall Zero-Days

Security Week U.K. cybersecurity vendor Sophos said it has been navigating numerous cyberattacks from Chinese government-backed hackers since at least 2018. Sophos, which was targeted by zero-days in its enterprise-facing products, said it deployed a “targeted implant” on devices under the hackers’ control in 2020 to monitor their actions. From “Sophos Surveils Chinese Hackers Targeting […]

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