Tag: api
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Amplified by AI Tools, API Attacks Hit 55% of IT Teams
Kong’s API Security Perspectives Report Says Many Teams Unprepared for AI Threats. Despite 92% of companies securing their APIs, 40% of leaders doubt whether their investments are adequate against AI-driven threats, said Kong’s API Security Perspectives Report. Only 13% of organizations in the U.S. and 4% in the U.K. admit to taking no specific measures…
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Microsoft sues ‘foreign-based’ cyber-crooks, seizes sites used to abuse AI
Scumbags stole API keys, then started a hacking-as-a-service biz, it is claimed First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/microsoft_sues_foreignbased_crims_seizes/
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Why Scalability Matters in Non-Human Identity and Access Management
6 min readFrom dynamic workloads to API-driven systems, managing non-human identities requires a new approach to security at scale. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/01/why-scalability-matters-in-non-human-identity-and-access-management/
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Microsoft sues service for creating illicit content with its AI platform
Service used undocumented APIs and other tricks to bypass safety guardrails. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/microsoft-sues-service-for-creating-illicit-content-with-its-ai-platform/
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Ivanti zero-day exploited by APT group that previously targeted Connect Secure appliances
Researchers from Google’s Mandiant division believe the critical remote code execution vulnerability patched on Wednesday by software vendor Ivanti has been exploited since mid-December by a Chinese cyberespionage group. This is the same group that has exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure appliances back in January 2024 and throughout the year.The latest attacks, exploiting…
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Hacking Group ‘Silk Typhoon’ Linked to US Treasury Breach
The attack used a stolen remote support SaaS API key to exfiltrate data from workstations in the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/hacking-group-silk-typhoon-linked-us-treasury-breach
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SOAR buyer’s guide: 11 security orchestration, automation, and response products, and how to choose
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, business, chatgpt, cisco, cloud, compliance, container, cybersecurity, data, detection, edr, endpoint, firewall, fortinet, gartner, google, group, guide, Hardware, ibm, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, jobs, LLM, malware, mandiant, marketplace, microsoft, mitigation, monitoring, network, okta, risk, saas, security-incident, service, siem, soar, soc, software, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-daySecurity orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) has undergone a major transformation in the past few years. Features in each of the words in its description that were once exclusive to SOAR have bled into other tools. For example, responses can be found now in endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools. Orchestration is now a joint…
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Microsoft moves to disrupt hacking-as-a-service scheme that’s bypassing AI safety measures
The defendants used stolen API keys to gain access to devices and accounts with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service, which they then used to generate “thousands” of images that violated content restrictions. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/microsoft-generative-ai-lawsuit-hacking/
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Microsoft moves to disrupt hacking-as-a-service scheme that’s bypassing AI safety measures
The defendants used stolen API keys to gain access to devices and accounts with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service, which they then used to generate “thousands” of images that violated content restrictions. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/microsoft-generative-ai-lawsuit-hacking/
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Effective API Throttling for Enhanced API Security
APIs are the backbone of modern digital ecosystems, but their misuse can expose systems to cyber threats. Effective API throttling not only optimizes performance but also acts as a critical defense mechanism against abuse, such as denial-of-service attacks. Discover how this powerful strategy enhances API security and safeguards your organization’s data in an interconnected world. …
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Meet the WAF Squad – Impart Security
Introduction Web applications and APIs are critical parts of your attack surface, but managing WAFs has never been easy. False positives, rule tuning, risks of production outages, and log analysis – all of this work has made WAF historically difficult to operationalize. Well, that time is over. Meet Impart’s WAF Squad – a five-member squad…
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Challenges and Solutions in API Security
Are Organizations Fully Grasping the Importance of API Security? It is surprising how often businesses underestimate the importance of Application Programming Interface (API) security while navigating the digital landscape. This concern arises due to the significant rise in API-centric applications. While APIs offer countless benefits, they also pose substantial cybersecurity challenges. So, how well are……
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Part 15: Function Type Categories
On Detection: Tactical to Functional Seven Ways to View API Functions Introduction Welcome back to Part 15 of the On Detection: Tactical to Functional blog series. I wrote this article to serve as a resource for those attempting to create tool graphs to describe the capabilities of the attacker tools or malware samples they encounter.…
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The deepfake threat just got a little more personal
Tags: access, ai, api, business, cybercrime, deep-fake, finance, google, jobs, north-korea, scam, technology, threatA two-hour conversation with an AI model is enough to create a fairly accurate image of a real person’s personality, according to researchers from Google and Stanford University.As part of a recent study, the researchers were able to generate “simulation agents”, essentially AI replicas, of 1,052 people based on two-hour interviews with each participant. These…
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ADFS”Š”, “ŠLiving in the Legacy of DRS
ADFS”Š”, “ŠLiving in the Legacy of DRS It’s no secret that Microsoft have been trying to move customers away from ADFS for a while. Short of slapping a “deprecated” label on it, every bit of documentation I come across eventually explains why Entra ID should now be used in place of ADFS. And yet”¦ we still encounter…
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Gen AI is transforming the cyber threat landscape by democratizing vulnerability hunting
Tags: ai, api, apt, attack, bug-bounty, business, chatgpt, cloud, computing, conference, credentials, cve, cyber, cybercrime, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, email, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, framework, github, government, group, guide, hacker, hacking, incident response, injection, LLM, malicious, microsoft, open-source, openai, penetration-testing, programming, rce, RedTeam, remote-code-execution, service, skills, software, sql, tactics, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, waf, zero-dayGenerative AI has had a significant impact on a wide variety of business processes, optimizing and accelerating workflows and in some cases reducing baselines for expertise.Add vulnerability hunting to that list, as large language models (LLMs) are proving to be valuable tools in assisting hackers, both good and bad, in discovering software vulnerabilities and writing…
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Security-Trends 2025 – Unternehmen sollten ihre KI, APIs und Daten jetzt sichern!
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/cybersicherheits-trends-2025-api-risiken-devsecops-ki-a-c4a68b14a859ee11a2e9cf6ee442f0d4/
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12 cybersecurity resolutions for 2025
Tags: advisory, ai, api, attack, awareness, breach, business, ceo, chatgpt, china, ciso, communications, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, deep-fake, defense, detection, email, identity, insurance, jobs, law, malicious, phishing, ransomware, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityAs cyber threats continue to evolve, CISOs must prepare for an increasingly complex threat landscape. From dealing with AI-driven attacks to managing changing regulatory requirements, it’s clear that 2025 will be another big year for CISOs.But staying ahead requires more than just implementing the next cutting-edge set of tools or technologies. It demands a shift…
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Top Tips for Weather API Integration and Data Utilization
Integrate weather APIs to enhance your app with real-time data, forecasts, and personalized insights. Improve user experience while… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/top-tips-for-weather-api-integration-data-utilization/
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Patched data exposing Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Apps Web API bugs detailed
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/patched-data-exposing-microsoft-dynamics-365-power-apps-web-api-bugs-detailed
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Secure by design vs by default which software development concept is better?
Tags: access, api, application-security, attack, business, cisa, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, exploit, framework, guide, Hardware, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, nist, programming, resilience, risk, saas, security-incident, service, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityAs cybersecurity professionals, we need to know that the software products we acquire are safe and able to support or accommodate the procedures and tools we use to keep attackers at bay while performing their given functions.With attacks perennially on the rise and the software supply chain remaining as vulnerable as ever, there is momentum…
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‘DoubleClickjacking’ Threatens Major Websites’ Security
Flaw Bypasses Clickjacking Defenses, Enables Account Takeovers. Hackers are exploiting the split-second delay between two mouse clicks to carry out sophisticated clickjacking attacks, tricking victims into authorizing transactions or granting access they never intended. DoubleClickjacking manipulates users into granting OAuth and API permissions First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/doubleclickjacking-threatens-major-websites-security-a-27203
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Volkswagen massive data leak caused by a failure to secure AWS credentials
A failure to properly protect access to its AWS environment is one of the root causes of the recent massive Volkswagen data leak, according to a presentation on the incident at the Chaos Computer Club on Dec. 27.But the security analyst who helped expose the leak said the $351 billion car manufacturer violated its own…
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What Happened in the U.S. Department of the Treasury Breach? A Detailed Summary
The U.S. Department of the Treasury suffered a major security incident when a Chinese threat actor compromised its third-party cybersecurity service BeyondTrust. The attackers obtained an API key that allowed them to bypass security measures and access unclassified documents. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2024/12/what-happened-in-the-u-s-department-of-the-treasury-breach-a-detailed-summary/
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Chinese APT Exploits BeyondTrust API Key to Access U.S. Treasury Systems and Documents
The United States Treasury Department said it suffered a “major cybersecurity incident” that allowed suspected Chinese threat actors to remotely access some computers and unclassified documents. “On December 8, 2024, Treasury was notified by a third-party software service provider, BeyondTrust, that a threat actor had gained access to a key used by the vendor to…