Tag: api
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Black Hat Fireside Chat: API sprawl turns SMBs into prime targets, simple flaws invite breaches
Cyber attackers don’t always need sophisticated exploits. Too often, they succeed by exploiting the basics. Related: 51 common SMB cyberattacks That’s the warning from Chris Wallis, founder and CEO of London-based Intruder, who sat down with Last Watchdog“¦ (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/black-hat-fireside-chat-api-sprawl-turns-smbs-into-prime-targets-simple-flaws-invite-breaches/
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Black Hat Fireside Chat: API sprawl turns SMBs into prime targets, simple flaws invite breaches
Cyber attackers don’t always need sophisticated exploits. Too often, they succeed by exploiting the basics. Related: 51 common SMB cyberattacks That’s the warning from Chris Wallis, founder and CEO of London-based Intruder, who sat down with Last Watchdog“¦ (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/black-hat-fireside-chat-api-sprawl-turns-smbs-into-prime-targets-simple-flaws-invite-breaches/
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Food Delivery Robots Vulnerable to Hacks That Redirect Orders
A startling vulnerability in Pudu Robotics’ management APIs that allowed anyone with minimal technical skill to seize control of the company’s food delivery and service robots. The vulnerability, which went unaddressed for weeks despite repeated responsible”disclosure attempts, could have enabled malicious actors to redirect BellaBots and other Pudu models to deliver meals to unintended recipients,…
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Black Hat Fireside Chat: API sprawl turns SMBs into prime targets, simple flaws invite breaches
Cyber attackers don’t always need sophisticated exploits. Too often, they succeed by exploiting the basics. Related: 51 common SMB cyberattacks That’s the warning from Chris Wallis, founder and CEO of London-based Intruder, who sat down with Last Watchdog“¦ (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/black-hat-fireside-chat-api-sprawl-turns-smbs-into-prime-targets-simple-flaws-invite-breaches/
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Google Web Designer Vulnerability Lets Hackers Take Over Client Systems
Tags: api, cyber, data-breach, flaw, google, hacker, malicious, remote-code-execution, vulnerability, windowsA critical client-side remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Google Web Designer exposed Windows users to full system compromise, according to a detailed write-up by security researcher Balint Magyar. Affecting versions prior to 16.4.0.0711 (released July 29, 2025), the flaw allowed attackers to inject malicious CSS into a configuration file and leverage an internal API…
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Google Web Designer Vulnerability Lets Hackers Take Over Client Systems
Tags: api, cyber, data-breach, flaw, google, hacker, malicious, remote-code-execution, vulnerability, windowsA critical client-side remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Google Web Designer exposed Windows users to full system compromise, according to a detailed write-up by security researcher Balint Magyar. Affecting versions prior to 16.4.0.0711 (released July 29, 2025), the flaw allowed attackers to inject malicious CSS into a configuration file and leverage an internal API…
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How AI Agents Are Creating a New Class of Identity Risk
5 min readAI agents require broad API access across multiple domains simultaneously”, LLM providers, enterprise APIs, cloud services, and data stores”, creating identity management complexity that traditional workload security never anticipated. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/how-ai-agents-are-creating-a-new-class-of-identity-risk/
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VirusTotal Launches Endpoint That Explains Code Functionality for Malware Analysts
Virustotal today unveiled a powerful addition to its Code Insight suite: a dedicated API endpoint that accepts code snippets”, either disassembled or decompiled”, and returns succinct summaries and detailed descriptions tailored for malware analysts. Launched over two years after the debut of Code Insight at RSA 2023, this endpoint represents a significant step toward automating…
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What You Don’t Log Will Hurt You FireTail Blog
Aug 28, 2025 – Lina Romero – APIs have become the most targeted attack surface in enterprise environments, and AI (particularly agentic AI) is making it even harder to protect those critical connections. But one of the most often overlooked and misunderstood aspects of a strong AI and API security posture is logging.Last week, FireTail…
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Beyond the Firewall: Rethinking Enterprise Security for the API-First Era
Evolve your enterprise security for the API-first era. Learn how to prioritize API security, implement SSO, MFA, and Passkeys, and foster a DevSecOps culture. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/beyond-the-firewall-rethinking-enterprise-security-for-the-api-first-era/
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The API Security Reality Check: Key Takeaways from Q2 2025 API ThreatStats Report
API security has never been more crucial. Vulnerabilities are growing in volume and severity. AI integrations are a burgeoning attack vector. Increasing GraphQL adoption presents hidden dangers. To protect your organization, you must secure your APIs. Keep reading for our key takeaways from the Wallarm Q2 2025 API ThreatStats report and find out what […]…
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Someone Created the First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b Model
Cybersecurity company ESET has disclosed that it discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ransomware variant codenamed PromptLock.Written in Golang, the newly identified strain uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts in real-time. The open-weight language model was released by OpenAI earlier this month.”PromptLock First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Someone Created First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b Model
Cybersecurity company ESET has disclosed that it discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ransomware variant codenamed PromptLock.Written in Golang, the newly identified strain uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts in real-time. The open-weight language model was released by OpenAI earlier this month.”PromptLock First seen on thehackernews.com…
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The Importance Of Ensuring Robust APIs For Your Applications Through Testing
Tags: apiLearn why API testing is essential for performance, security, and reliability. Detect bugs early and boost your app’s quality. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/the-importance-of-ensuring-robust-apis-for-your-applications-through-testing/
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The Importance Of Ensuring Robust APIs For Your Applications Through Testing
Tags: apiLearn why API testing is essential for performance, security, and reliability. Detect bugs early and boost your app’s quality. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/the-importance-of-ensuring-robust-apis-for-your-applications-through-testing/
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ESET warns of PromptLock, the first AI-driven ransomware
ESET found PromptLock, the first AI-driven ransomware, using OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b via Ollama to generate and run malicious Lua scripts. In a series of messages published on X, ESET Research announced the discovery of the first known AI-powered ransomware, named PromptLock. The PromptLock malware uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to…
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Threat Actors Update Android Droppers to Remain Effective with Even Simple Malware
Threat actors are increasingly refining Android droppers to circumvent enhanced security measures, extending their utility beyond sophisticated banking trojans to simpler malware variants like SMS stealers and basic spyware. Historically, droppers served as innocuous entry points for payloads requiring elevated permissions, such as Accessibility Services, particularly after Android 13’s API restrictions limited direct installations. These…
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Threat Actors Update Android Droppers to Remain Effective with Even Simple Malware
Threat actors are increasingly refining Android droppers to circumvent enhanced security measures, extending their utility beyond sophisticated banking trojans to simpler malware variants like SMS stealers and basic spyware. Historically, droppers served as innocuous entry points for payloads requiring elevated permissions, such as Accessibility Services, particularly after Android 13’s API restrictions limited direct installations. These…
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Das kostet ein Data Breach 2025
Tags: ai, api, breach, ciso, cyberattack, cyersecurity, data, data-breach, germany, ibm, infrastructure, intelligence, ransomware, risk, security-incident, siem, supply-chain, threat, usa, vulnerabilityLaut einer aktuellen Studie liegen die durchschnittlichen Kosten einer Datenpanne in Deutschland bei 3,87 Millionen Euro.Laut dem aktuellen ‘Cost of a Data Breach”- Report von IBM sind die Kosten einer Datenpanne in Deutschland auf 3,87 Millionen Euro (ca. 4,03 Millionen Dollar) pro Vorfall gesunken im Vorjahr lagen sie noch bei 4,9 Millionen Euro (ca. 5,31…
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Report Surfaces Increased Number of API Security Issues Involving AI
A report published today by Wallarm finds that of the 639 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) pertaining to application programming interfaces (APIs) reported in Q2 2025, 34 involved issues relating to some type of use case tied to artificial intelligence (AI). Overall, two-thirds of the API CVEs represent either critical or high severity threats, according..…
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Rowhammer attack can backdoor AI models with one devastating bit flip
Servers with DDR3 memory modules (demonstrated on 16GB Samsung DDR3)Workstations with DDR4 memory (demonstrated on 8GB Hynix DDR4)AI inference servers running popular models such as ResNet, VGG, and Vision TransformersEdge computing devices with vulnerable DRAM hosting neural networksCloud platforms using DDR3/DDR4 memory for AI model deploymentResearch computing systems running full-precision (32-bit floating-point) modelsMulti-tenant GPU servers…
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Hackers Steal Windows Secrets and Credentials Undetected by EDR Detection
A cybersecurity researcher has unveiled a sophisticated new method for extracting Windows credentials and secrets that successfully evades detection by most Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions currently deployed in enterprise environments. The technique, dubbed >>Silent Harvest,
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Automated Vulnerability Management: What It Is Why You Need It
Organizations nowadays are struggling with a growing IT environment, cloud-based workloads, APIs, IoT devices, and containerized applications are just a few of the ingredients thrown into the mix. With every… The post Automated Vulnerability Management: What It Is & Why You Need It appeared first on Strobes Security. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article:…
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Featured Chrome extension FreeVPN.One caught capturing and transmitting user data
Tags: access, api, browser, ceo, chrome, corporate, credentials, data, data-breach, endpoint, finance, governance, healthcare, india, malicious, mobile, monitoring, privacy, risk, technology, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementUnmanaged extensions expose enterprises: Such incidents highlight how unmanaged browser extensions can act as covert data exfiltration channels, exposing sensitive corporate information. Enterprises usually deploy licensed, corporate-grade VPNs that are safe and accompanied by monitoring and access controls. But employees often install free VPN extensions for personal use.”This poses as a major threat to industries…
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Azure Default API Connection Flaw Enables Full Cross-Tenant Compromise
A critical security vulnerability in Microsoft Azure’s API Connection architecture has been discovered that could allow attackers to completely compromise resources across different tenant environments, potentially exposing sensitive data stored in Key Vaults, Azure SQL databases, and third-party services like Jira and Salesforce. The vulnerability, which earned a security researcher a$40,000 bountyfrom Microsoft and a…
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What is the cost of a data breach?
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, compliance, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, finance, fraud, healthcare, ibm, identity, incident response, india, infrastructure, insurance, intelligence, jobs, law, metric, privacy, programming, ransom, ransomware, regulation, risk, security-incident, service, skills, software, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilityCanada ($4.84 million) and the UK ($4.14million) remain in the top 10 hardest hit, with ASEAN or Association of Southeast Asian Nations ($3.67 million), Australia ($2.55 million), and India ($2.51 million) among the top 15. Breaches by industry: Healthcare remains the industry hit with the highest costs per breach by far, at $7.42 million despite…
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Anthropic Folds Claude Code Into Business Plans With Governance Tools
Anthropic added Claude Code to its Team and Enterprise subscriptions, alongside a new Compliance API that helps IT leaders enforce governance and track AI coding activity. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-anthropic-claude-code-business-plan-governance/
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Pre-Auth Exploit Chains Found in Commvault Could Enable Remote Code Execution Attacks
Commvault has released updates to address four security gaps that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution on susceptible instances.The list of vulnerabilities, identified in Commvault versions before 11.36.60, is as follows -CVE-2025-57788 (CVSS score: 6.9) – A vulnerability in a known login mechanism allows unauthenticated attackers to execute API calls without requiring user…
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Salt Security Named an Overall Leader in KuppingerCole 2025 Leadership Compass for API Security and Management
Salt Security has been named an Overall Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for API Security and Management 2025. The company was also recognised as a Leader in the Product, Innovation, and Market categories, underscoring the strength of its comprehensive, AI-powered API security platform. The report, authored by Alexei Balaganski, provides a detailed overview of…