Tag: api
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Top 10 Best API Security Testing Companies in 2025
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have become the backbone of online business, connecting services, and enabling new customer experiences. However, as the API footprint grows, so does the attack surface making robust API security testing a critical pillar of enterprise cyber defense in 2025. Whether you’re a security analyst, DevSecOps…
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Entra ID vulnerability exposes gaps in cloud identity trust models, experts warn
Tags: advisory, api, cloud, cve, exploit, flaw, identity, microsoft, mitigation, risk, service, technology, update, vulnerabilityPatching is done, yet the risk lingers: While CVE-2025-55241 initially carried a maximum base severity score of 10.0 out of 10, Microsoft later revised its advisory on September 4 to rate the flaw at 8.7, reflecting its own exploitability assessment.Microsoft rolled out a fix globally within days of the initial report, adding that its internal…
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Nokia CBIS/NCS Manager API Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Bypass Authentication
On September 18, 2025, Orange Cert publicly disclosed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Nokia’s CBIS (CloudBand Infrastructure Software) and NCS (Nokia Container Service) Manager API (CVE-2023-49564). With a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.6 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), the vulnerability poses a severe risk to organizations relying on these management platforms to orchestrate and secure their containerized network…
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Cloudflare Confirms API Outage Caused by React useEffect Overload Issue
Cloudflare experienced a significant outage on September 12, 2025, affecting its Tenant Service API, multiple APIs, and the Cloudflare Dashboard. The company has confirmed that the incident was primarily triggered by a React programming bug that caused excessive API calls, overwhelming critical infrastructure components. Technical Root Cause Identified The outage originated from a coding error…
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Cloudflare Confirms API Outage Caused by React useEffect Overload Issue
Cloudflare experienced a significant outage on September 12, 2025, affecting its Tenant Service API, multiple APIs, and the Cloudflare Dashboard. The company has confirmed that the incident was primarily triggered by a React programming bug that caused excessive API calls, overwhelming critical infrastructure components. Technical Root Cause Identified The outage originated from a coding error…
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Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder
Tags: apiDashboard loop caused API outage that was hard to troubleshoot First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/cloudflare_ddosed_itself/
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Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder
Tags: apiDashboard loop caused API outage that was hard to troubleshoot First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/cloudflare_ddosed_itself/
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1 in 3 Android Apps Leak Sensitive Data
One third of Android and over half iOS apps shown to be leaking insecure APIs and hardcoded secrets First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/android-apps-leak-sensitive-data/
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Salt Security Announces Industry First Solution to Secure API Actions Taken by AI Agents
At CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2025, Salt Security announced the industry’s first solution to secure the actions AI agents take in the enterprise. As large organisations adopt agentic AI, agents are increasingly making real-time API calls through protocols like MCP and A2A, creating a new layer of risk. Salt is the first to converge API and AI…
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Where CISOs need to see Splunk go next
Tags: ai, api, automation, cisco, ciso, cloud, communications, compliance, conference, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, finance, framework, google, incident response, intelligence, jobs, metric, microsoft, open-source, RedTeam, resilience, risk, router, siem, soar, strategy, tactics, threat, tool, vulnerabilityResilience resides at the confluence of security and observability: There was also a clear message around resilience, the ability to maintain availability and recover quickly from any IT or security event.From a Cisco/Splunk perspective, this means a more tightly coupled relationship between security and observability.I’m reminded of a chat I had with the chief risk…
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API-Sicherheit im KI-Zeitalter – Warum APIs zum größten Risiko und Schlüssel für Innovation werden
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/api-security-ki-risiken-strategien-a-0268a20cdfa03a7a2c3b017c3a02fc91/
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Malicious PyPI Packages Deliver SilentSync RAT
IntroductionZscaler ThreatLabz regularly monitors for threats in the popular Python Package Index (PyPI), which contains open source libraries that are frequently used by many Python developers. In July 2025, a malicious Python package named termncolor was identified by ThreatLabz. Just a few weeks later, on August 4, 2025, ThreatLabz uncovered two more malicious Python packages…
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How Tenable Found a Way To Bypass a Patch for BentoML’s Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability CVE-2025-54381
Tenable Research recently discovered that the original patch for a critical vulnerability affecting BentoML could be bypassed. In this blog, we explain in detail how we discovered this patch bypass in this widely used open source tool. The vulnerability is now fully patched. Key takeaways Tenable Research discovered that the initial patch for a high-severity…
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Check Point acquires Lakera to build a unified AI security stack
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, cloud, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, government, infrastructure, injection, LLM, network, RedTeam, risk, saas, startup, supply-chain, tool, trainingClosing a critical gap: Experts call this acquisition significant and not merely adding just another tool to the stack. “This acquisition closes a real gap by adding AI-native runtime guardrails and continuous red teaming into Check Point’s stack,” said Amit Jaju, senior managing director at Ankura Consulting. “Customers can now secure LLMs and agents alongside…
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Kubernetes C# Client Flaw Exposes API Server to MiTM Attacks
A recently disclosed vulnerability in the Kubernetes C# client library allows attackers to carry out man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks against the API server. The flaw stems from improper certificate validation when using custom certificate authorities (CAs). As organizations increasingly rely on Kubernetes for container orchestration, this weakness could enable interception or alteration of critical control-plane traffic,…
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Wave of 40,000+ Cyberattacks Target API Environments
The cybersecurity landscape has witnessed a dramatic escalation in API-targeted attacks during the first half of 2025, with security researchers documenting over 40,000 API incidents across more than 4,000 monitored environments. This surge represents a fundamental shift in how cybercriminals approach digital infrastructure, with APIs becoming the primary gateway for sophisticated attack campaigns designed to inject malicious…
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Wave of 40,000+ Cyberattacks Target API Environments
The cybersecurity landscape has witnessed a dramatic escalation in API-targeted attacks during the first half of 2025, with security researchers documenting over 40,000 API incidents across more than 4,000 monitored environments. This surge represents a fundamental shift in how cybercriminals approach digital infrastructure, with APIs becoming the primary gateway for sophisticated attack campaigns designed to inject malicious…
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Self-Replicating Worm Compromising Hundreds of NPM Packages
An ongoing supply chain attack dubbed “Shai-Hulud” has compromised hundreds of packages in the npm repository with a self-replicating worm that steals secrets like API key, tokens, and cloud credentials and sends them to external servers that the attackers control. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/self-replicating-worm-compromising-hundreds-of-npm-packages/
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Chaos-Mesh flaws put Kubernetes clusters at risk of full takeover
Tags: access, api, authentication, cloud, control, data-breach, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, injection, kubernetes, network, risk, service, tool, vulnerabilitychaosctl tool and port. Some cloud infrastructure providers that offer Chaos-Mesh implementations as part of their managed Kubernetes Services, such as Azure Chaos Studio, are also impacted. Chaos-Mesh was designed to orchestrate fault scenarios that could impact infrastructure and applications. The researchers observed that one core component of Chaos-Mesh, the Controller Manager, exposed a GraphQL…
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Warning: Hackers have inserted credential-stealing code into some npm libraries
Tags: api, attack, authentication, ciso, cloud, credentials, github, google, hacker, Hardware, incident response, malware, mfa, monitoring, open-source, phishing, sans, software, supply-chain, threatMore than 40 packages affected: One of the researchers who found and flagged the hack Monday was French developer François Best, and it was also described in blogs from StepSecurity, Socket, ReversingLabs and Ox Security. These blogs contain a full list of compromised packages and indicators of compromise.Researchers at Israel-based Ox Security said there was a…
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CrowdStrike bets big on agentic AI with new offerings after $290M Onum buy
Tags: ai, api, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, marketplace, password, risk, service, soc, trainingCrowdStrike’s Agentic Security Platform: CrowdStrike developed its Agentic Security Platform precisely to help organizations keep pace with increasingly AI-equipped adversaries. “The increasing speed of the adversary, the increasing use of generative AI means from a defensive standpoint, we want to leverage these technologies as well to match and hopefully exceed the speed and efficiency of…
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Milliarden Downloads betroffen: Größter npmChain-Angriff kompromittiert Kernpakete
Die Malware nutzte verschleierten Code, setzte auf Levenshtein-Distanz zur Täuschung und baute auf APIs wie fetch, XMLHttpRequest und window.ethereum.request. Zielwährungen waren Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, Litecoin und Bitcoin Cash. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/milliarden-downloads-betroffen-groesster-npm-supply-chain-angriff-kompromittiert-kernpakete/a42025/
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API Threats Surge to 40,000 Incidents in 1H 2025
Thales claims there were over 40,000 API incidents in the first half of 2025 First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/api-threats-surge-40000-incidents/
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The Gravity of Process: Why New Tech Never Fixes Broken Process and Can AI Change It?
Tags: advisory, ai, api, best-practice, business, cybersecurity, data, flaw, grc, incident response, risk, siem, soar, soc, technology, threat, tool, trainingLet’s tackle the age old question: can new technology fix broken or missing processes? And then let’s add: does AI and AI agents change the answer you would give? Gemini illustration based on this blog This is the question which I recently debated with some friends, with a few AIs and with myself. The context was of…
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Chatbots, APIs und die verborgenen Risiken in modernen Application Stacks
Was passiert, wenn eine Legacy-Anwendung unbemerkt bleibt und plötzlich im Zentrum eines Sicherheitsvorfalls mit KI und APIs steht? First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/chatbots-apis-verborgene-risiken-moderne-application-stacks
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CVE-2025-58434: Critical FlowiseAI Flaw Enables Full Account Takeover
A severe security vulnerability has been discovered in FlowiseAI, an open-source AI workflow automation tool, exposing users to the risk of complete account compromise. Tracked as CVE-2025-58434, this vulnerability affects both the cloud-hosted version of FlowiseAI and self-hosted deployments that expose the relevant API endpoints. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/cve-2025-58434/
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Security Lags Cloud and AI Adoption, Tenable Report Finds, as CISA Lays Out Vision for CVE Program’s Future
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, best-practice, breach, bug-bounty, business, cisa, cloud, communications, computer, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, encryption, exploit, framework, google, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, linkedin, mitre, network, nist, office, open-source, privacy, programming, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, skills, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityCheck out Tenable’s report detailing challenges and best practices for cloud and AI security. Plus, CISA rolled out a roadmap for the CVE Program, while NIST updated its guidelines for secure software patches. And get the latest on TLS/SSL security and AI attack disclosures! Here are five things you need to know for the week…
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The Hidden Threat: How Sensitive Information Leakage Puts Your Business at Risk
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know And That’s the Problem Picture this: Your development team has built a robust e-commerce platform. Your security team has implemented comprehensive protection measures. Your compliance team has checked all the boxes. Yet somewhere in your application stack, full credit card numbers are quietly leaking through API responses,… First…