Tag: api
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Pyronut Package Backdoors Telegram Bots With RCE
Malicious ‘Pyronut’ is a trojanized Python package that backdoors Telegram bots and userbots, giving attackers remote code execution over both the Telegram session and the underlying host system.”‹ The malicious package , pyronut , was uploaded to PyPI as a fake alternative to pyrogram, a widely used Telegram MTProto API framework with around 370,000 monthly downloads. Instead of…
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Java 26 ships with new cryptography API and HTTP/3 support
Oracle released JDK 26, the 17th consecutive feature release delivered under the six-month cadence the project adopted in 2018. The release includes ten JDK Enhancement … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/19/java-26-security-features/
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Your APIs are under siege, and attackers are just getting warmed up
Internet-facing systems are handling sustained levels of malicious traffic across APIs, web applications, and DDoS channels. Akamai’s State of the Internet security report … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/19/akamai-api-attack-trends-report/
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Technical Analysis of SnappyClient
Tags: access, antivirus, api, attack, browser, chrome, cloud, communications, computer, control, credentials, crypto, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, finance, framework, github, infection, injection, jobs, login, malicious, malware, network, password, software, startup, theft, threat, update, windowsIntroductionIn December 2025, Zscaler ThreatLabz identified a new command-and-control (C2) framework implant that we track as SnappyClient, which was delivered using HijackLoader. SnappyClient has an extended list of capabilities including taking screenshots, keylogging, a remote terminal, and data theft from browsers, extensions, and other applications. In this blog post, ThreatLabz provides a technical analysis of SnappyClient, including…
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Claudy Day Forecast: Chat Data Theft
Researchers Detail Prompt Injection, API and Redirect Flaws. Oasis Security researchers found three bugs in Claude that attackers can chain to steal user chat data without malware or phishing. The Claudy Day attack links hidden prompt injection, Anthropic’s Files API and an open redirect. Anthropic has fixed the core flaw. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Everyone Is Deploying AI Agents. Almost Nobody Knows What They’re Doing.
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, ceo, ciso, credentials, data, data-breach, finance, infrastructure, Internet, LLM, risk, service, tool, vulnerability, wafOne constant I hear from CISOs I speak with is that AI agents are not coming. They are already inside organizations, reasoning through goals, selecting tools, and taking action through the same APIs that connect your most sensitive systems. And most security teams have no idea what those agents are doing. The problem Is not…
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Everyone Is Deploying AI Agents. Almost Nobody Knows What They’re Doing.
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, ceo, ciso, credentials, data, data-breach, finance, infrastructure, Internet, LLM, risk, service, tool, vulnerability, wafOne constant I hear from CISOs I speak with is that AI agents are not coming. They are already inside organizations, reasoning through goals, selecting tools, and taking action through the same APIs that connect your most sensitive systems. And most security teams have no idea what those agents are doing. The problem Is not…
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Reco targets AI agent blind spots with new security capability
Aiming where traditional SSPM falls short: Reco positions the launch as a break from traditional SSPM, arguing that those tools were never designed for autonomous systems.”SSPM sees connections. We see behavior,” Klein said. While a typical SSPM might flag a Zapier-Salesforce link as a third-party integration, “We identify that this specific Zapier workflow is an…
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Apple Fixes WebKit Vulnerability Enabling Same-Origin Policy Bypass on iOS and macOS
Apple on Tuesday released its first round of Background Security Improvements to address a security flaw in WebKit that affects iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20643 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a cross-origin issue in WebKit’s Navigation API that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy when processing maliciously crafted…
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prompted: Key Insights from the AI Security Practitioners Conference FireTail Blog
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, automation, conference, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, exploit, google, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, malware, monitoring, openai, risk, strategy, theft, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMar 17, 2026 – Jeremy Snyder – The State of AI Security: Moving Beyond TheoryThe biggest shift evident at the [un]prompted AI Security Practitioners Conference was the move from purely theoretical discussions about “what could go wrong” to concrete, battle-tested methodologies for “what is going wrong and how we fix it.” It’s clear that AI…
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prompted: Key Insights from the AI Security Practitioners Conference FireTail Blog
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, automation, conference, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, exploit, google, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, malware, monitoring, openai, risk, strategy, theft, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMar 17, 2026 – Jeremy Snyder – The State of AI Security: Moving Beyond TheoryThe biggest shift evident at the [un]prompted AI Security Practitioners Conference was the move from purely theoretical discussions about “what could go wrong” to concrete, battle-tested methodologies for “what is going wrong and how we fix it.” It’s clear that AI…
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Average Number of Daily API Attacks Up 113% Annually
Akamai says 87% of organizations suffered an API-related security incident last year First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/average-number-daily-api-attacks/
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API statt Kompromiss: Mimecast startet nächsten Generation für ESicherheit
Die neue API-basierte E-Mail-Sicherheitslösung markiert einen klaren Wandel im Markt: Weg von isolierten Tools und halben Lösungen – hin zu integrierter, intelligenter Sicherheit. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/api-statt-kompromiss-mimecast-startet-naechsten-generation-fuer-e-mail-sicherheit/a44158/
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Don’t confuse asset inventory with exposure management
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, chatgpt, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, flaw, framework, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, least-privilege, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, regulation, risk, saas, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAsset discovery tells you what IT exists in your environment. Exposure management tells you what will get you breached. If your platform can’t connect vulnerabilities, identities, misconfigurations, and AI systems into real attack paths, you don’t have exposure management. You have inventory. Key takeaways True exposure management requires more than asset inventory. It’s about merging…
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Don’t confuse asset inventory with exposure management
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, chatgpt, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, flaw, framework, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, least-privilege, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, regulation, risk, saas, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAsset discovery tells you what IT exists in your environment. Exposure management tells you what will get you breached. If your platform can’t connect vulnerabilities, identities, misconfigurations, and AI systems into real attack paths, you don’t have exposure management. You have inventory. Key takeaways True exposure management requires more than asset inventory. It’s about merging…
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Don’t confuse asset inventory with exposure management
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, chatgpt, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, flaw, framework, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, least-privilege, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, regulation, risk, saas, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAsset discovery tells you what IT exists in your environment. Exposure management tells you what will get you breached. If your platform can’t connect vulnerabilities, identities, misconfigurations, and AI systems into real attack paths, you don’t have exposure management. You have inventory. Key takeaways True exposure management requires more than asset inventory. It’s about merging…
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Advanced Protection Mode in Android 17 prevents apps from misusing Accessibility Services
Android 17 will block non-accessibility apps from using the Accessibility API under Advanced Protection Mode to reduce malware abuse. Android 17 introduces a new security feature in Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM) that blocks apps without accessibility functions from accessing the Accessibility API. The change, first reported by Android Authority and included in Android 17 Beta…
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Android 17 Blocks Non-Accessibility Apps from Accessibility API to Prevent Malware Abuse
Google is testing a new security feature as part of Android Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM) that prevents certain kinds of apps from using the accessibility services API.The change, incorporated in Android 17 Beta 2, was first reported by Android Authority last week.AAPM was introduced by Google in Android 16, released last year. When enabled, it…
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Best 5 AI Pentesting Tools in 2026
Cyber threats are evolving at a pace that traditional security testing methods struggle to keep up with. Organizations today operate in highly complex digital environments with cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, and rapidly deployed applications. In such environments, manual security testing alone is no longer enough. This is where an AI pentesting tool becomes a critical……
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An AI Agent Didn’t Hack McKinsey. Its Exposed APIs Did.
This week’s McKinsey incident should be a wake-up call for every enterprise moving fast to deploy AI. Not because AI itself is inherently insecure. But because too many organizations are still thinking about AI security at the model layer, while the real enterprise risk sits in the action layer: the APIs, MCP servers, internal services,…
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Modern Applications Outgrow Role-Based Access Control
Axiomatics CTO David Brossard on Why Policy-Based Access Control Fits Modern Apps. Static, role-based access control no longer matches the complexity of modern applications, APIs and data flows. Attribute- and policy-based, runtime authorization gives security teams more precision, visibility and consistency across systems, says David Brossard, CTO at Axiomatics. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Loveholidays Protects its APIs Improves Conversions with Real-Time Bot Defense
Scraper bots were exhausting Loveholidays’ APIs and blocking real bookings. Discover how DataDome’s AI-powered bot protection restored stable traffic and conversions. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/loveholidays-protects-its-apis-improves-conversions-with-real-time-bot-defense/
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AWS expands Security Hub for multicloud security operations
Tags: access, api, ceo, ciso, cloud, cybersecurity, data, detection, endpoint, framework, google, identity, incident response, india, infrastructure, Internet, microsoft, monitoring, risk, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementCross-cloud security monitoring: While AWS has not provided technical details on how it will identify vulnerabilities outside its native environment, Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research, said multicloud visibility typically works by collecting signals from multiple security systems and translating them into a consistent format so they can be analysed together.A key enabler…