Tag: api
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KuppingerCole 2025: Why Thales is a Market Leader in API Security
APIs are the backbone of modern applications connecting critical microservices and enabling enterprises to turn data into context-aware business logic via AI across their digital services. As applications become more contextual, APIs expose the data, workflows, and model interactions attackers target, making them the enterprise’s primary attack surface. KuppingerCole’s Leadership Compass: API Security & Management……
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KuppingerCole 2025: Why Thales is a Market Leader in API Security
APIs are the backbone of modern applications connecting critical microservices and enabling enterprises to turn data into context-aware business logic via AI across their digital services. As applications become more contextual, APIs expose the data, workflows, and model interactions attackers target, making them the enterprise’s primary attack surface. KuppingerCole’s Leadership Compass: API Security & Management……
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How to Gain Control of AI Agents and Non-Human Identities
We hear this a lot:”We’ve got hundreds of service accounts and AI agents running in the background. We didn’t create most of them. We don’t know who owns them. How are we supposed to secure them?”Every enterprise today runs on more than users. Behind the scenes, thousands of non-human identities, from service accounts to API…
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Researchers expose MalTerminal, an LLM-enabled malware pioneer
SentinelOne uncovered MalTerminal, the earliest known malware with built-in LLM capabilities, and presented it at LABScon 2025. SentinelLABS researchers discovered MalTerminal, the earliest known LLM-enabled malware, which generates malicious logic at runtime, making the detection more complex. Researchers identified it via API key patterns and prompt structures, uncovering new samples and other offensive LLM uses,…
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MalTerminal: New GPTPowered Malware That Writes Its Own Ransomware
A groundbreaking discovery in cybersecurity research has revealed the emergence of’MalTerminal’, potentially the earliest known example of Large Language Model (LLM)-enabled malware that leverages OpenAI’s GPT-4 API to dynamically generate ransomware code and reverse shells at runtime. This discovery represents a significant evolution in malware sophistication, presenting unprecedented challenges for traditional detection methods. SentinelLABS researchers…
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Agentic AI der neue Horror für Sicherheitsentscheider?
Tags: ai, antivirus, api, breach, ciso, compliance, cyberattack, cybersecurity, cyersecurity, detection, governance, law, mail, malware, monitoring, risk, service, supply-chain, tool, vulnerabilityKI ist mittlerweile in den meisten Unternehmen gesetzt. Im Trend liegen aktuell vor allem Systeme mit autonomen Fähigkeiten bei denen die potenziellen Sicherheitsrisiken besonders ausgeprägt sind.KI-Agenten werden im Unternehmensumfeld immer beliebter und zunehmend in Workflows und Prozesse integriert. Etwa in den Bereichen Softwareentwicklung, Kundenservice und -Support, Prozessautomatisierung oder Employee Experience. Für CISOs und ihre Teams…
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Why Human IAM Strategies Fail for Machines
5 min readThe core problem is that human IAM was never built for machine scale or behavior… The amount of non-human identities continues growing”, 10 to 1 will turn into 45 to 1, then 100 to 1, then 200 to 1. Nothing stops this growth. Unlike people, machines can’t use MFA or log in with…
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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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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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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…