WAF 340620

Rule ID

340620

Alert Message

Atomicorp.com WAF Rules: UTF8 Encoding Abuse Attack Attempt

Description

Your system is using UTF8 encoding an invalid data base been recieved that claims to be using the uft-8 character set. This can be indicative of an attack that is attempting to encode itself as UTF-8 hoping to evade the web application firewall or some other system.

False Positives

There are no known False Positives for this.

If you believe this is a false positive, it is recommended that you report this to our security team can determine if this is a legitimate case, or if its clever attack on your system. Instructions to report false positives are detailed on the Reporting False Positives wiki page.

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