Tag: api
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Microsoft to enable Windows hotpatch security updates by default
Microsoft will turn on hotpatch security updates by default for all eligible Windows devices managed through Microsoft Intune and the Microsoft Graph API, beginning with the May 2026 Windows security update. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-enable-hotpatch-security-updates-by-default-in-may/
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Why access decisions are becoming the weakest link in identity security
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, automation, breach, business, ciso, control, credentials, data, finance, governance, group, iam, identity, least-privilege, login, okta, radius, risk, saas, service, technology, toolThe SSO fallacy: Why authentication is not a guarantee: I’m often asked by business and technology leaders, “If we have SSO enabled, why do we still need to worry about granular access controls?” The underlying assumption is that once a user is authenticated through a central, secure portal, the hard work is done.In practice, SSO…
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Report Surfaces Higher Correlation Between API and AI Security
An analysis of 67,058 published vulnerabilities from 2025 finds 11,053, or 17%, are related to application programming interfaces (APIs). Conducted by Wallarm, the 2026 API ThreatStats Report also notes that 43% of the additions made in 2025 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog maintained by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) involved API……
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AI Is Moving Faster Than Security Controls
Tags: access, ai, api, automation, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, governance, group, intelligence, monitoring, risk, service, software, technology, tool, updateAI is entering organisations faster than the security controls designed to govern it. Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming embedded across organisations. AI assistants are now writing code, summarising documents, analysing data, and supporting operational decisions. What began as experimentation is quickly becoming operational dependency. For security teams, the challenge is not simply adopting AI. The…
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The Top 5 Questions: How DSPM Illuminates the Murky World of Multi-Cloud Data Security
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, cloud, compliance, computing, container, control, corporate, cryptography, cyber, data, data-breach, detection, encryption, exploit, firewall, intelligence, mitigation, monitoring, PCI, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, service, software, strategy, tactics, threat, tool, vulnerabilityThe Top 5 Questions: How DSPM Illuminates the Murky World of Multi-Cloud Data Security andrew.gertz@t“¦ Thu, 03/05/2026 – 16:09 Multi-cloud data security threats are escalating at an unprecedented rate. According to Forrester and the 2025 Thales Global Cloud Data Security Study, the primary drivers of multi-cloud risks are: growing complexity, insufficient access controls, and the…
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14 old software bugs that took way too long to squash
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, bug-bounty, communications, computer, control, credentials, cve, cvss, cyber, data, data-breach, dns, dos, encryption, exploit, flaw, hacker, Hardware, infosec, infrastructure, Internet, kaspersky, linux, malicious, malware, microsoft, mitigation, network, nist, open-source, password, programming, remote-code-execution, risk, service, software, stuxnet, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, update, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-dayAge: 30 yearsDate introduced: 1995Date fixed: February 2026Researchers unearthed a legacy flaw in the widely used libpng open-source library that had existed since the technology was first released more than 30 years ago.The heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-25646) meant that applications using the flawed software would crash when presented with a maliciously constructed PNG raster…
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14 old software bugs that took way too long to squash
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, bug-bounty, communications, computer, control, credentials, cve, cvss, cyber, data, data-breach, dns, dos, encryption, exploit, flaw, hacker, Hardware, infosec, infrastructure, Internet, kaspersky, linux, malicious, malware, microsoft, mitigation, network, nist, open-source, password, programming, remote-code-execution, risk, service, software, stuxnet, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, update, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-dayAge: 30 yearsDate introduced: 1995Date fixed: February 2026Researchers unearthed a legacy flaw in the widely used libpng open-source library that had existed since the technology was first released more than 30 years ago.The heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-25646) meant that applications using the flawed software would crash when presented with a maliciously constructed PNG raster…
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The Instagram API Scraping Crisis: When ‘Public’ Data Becomes a 17.5 Million User Breach
17.5 million Instagram accounts leaked through API scraping. Meta denies breach, but your data is on the dark web. Here’s what actually happened. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/the-instagram-api-scraping-crisis-when-public-data-becomes-a-17-5-million-user-breach/
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Google Gemini: Geleakter API-Key treibt Entwickler in den Ruin
Ein kleines Entwicklerteam soll plötzlich mehr als 82.000 US-Dollar an Google zahlen. Ein Angreifer hatte einen API-Key für Gemini missbraucht. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/google-gemini-geleakter-api-key-treibt-entwickler-in-den-ruin-2603-206084.html
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Shadow AI vs Managed AI: What’s the Difference? FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, chatgpt, ciso, cloud, computer, control, credentials, credit-card, data, data-breach, framework, google, injection, intelligence, Internet, law, LLM, malicious, mitre, monitoring, network, password, phishing, phone, risk, software, switch, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityMar 04, 2026 – – Quick Facts: Shadow AI vs. Managed AIShadow AI is a visibility gap: It refers to any AI tool used by employees that the IT department doesn’t know about. Most companies have 10x more AI tools in use than they realize.Managed AI is a “Paved Path”: It uses approved, secure versions…
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AI-powered attack kits go open source, and CyberStrikeAI may be just the beginning
100-plus prebuilt tool recipes and a human-readable YAML-based extension system;Attack-chain graph, risk scoring, and “step-by-step replay”;Password-protected web user interfaces (UIs) and audit logs;A knowledge base with vector search, hybrid retrieval, and searchable archives;Vulnerability management with create, read, update, delete (CRUD) operations, severity tracking, status workflow, and statistics;Batch task management that can organize task queues and…
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Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town
Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/gemini_api_key_82314_dollar_charge/
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AI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, cyber, data, deep-fake, encryption, governance, identity, infrastructure, risk, saas, skills, software, strategy, theft, threat, toolAI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report madhav Tue, 03/03/2026 – 15:00 Over the past year, I’ve watched AI move to operational reality across nearly every industry we work with. The conversation is no longer about whether AI will transform business. It already has. Cybersecurity Todd Moore –…
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AI Agents: The Next Wave Identity Dark Matter – Powerful, Invisible, and Unmanaged
The Rise of MCPs in the EnterpriseThe Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a practical way to push LLMs from “chat” into real work. By providing structured access to applications, APIs, and data, MCP enables prompt-driven AI agents that can retrieve information, take action, and automate end-to-end business workflows across the enterprise. This is…
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Why Every Enterprise Needs a Strong API Security Strategy?
Modern enterprises are rapidly shifting toward API-centric architectures, leveraging APIs to connect internal systems, external partners, and digital services. With 74% of organizations adopting API-first development models, APIs now drive critical business logic and data exchanges at scale. However, this API proliferation also dramatically increases the attack surface, exposing sensitive data and business processes to……
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Everyone Knows About Broken Authorization So Why Does It Still Work for Attackers?
Broken authorization is one of the most widely known API vulnerabilities. It features in the OWASP Top 10, AppSec conversations, and secure coding guidelines. Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) and Broken Function Level Authorization (BFLA) account for hundreds of API vulnerabilities every quarter. According to the 2026 API ThreatStats report, authorization issues ranked ninth in…
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How to Protect Your SaaS from Bot Attacks with SafeLine WAF
Most SaaS teams remember the day their user traffic started growing fast. Few notice the day bots started targeting them.On paper, everything looks great: more sign-ups, more sessions, more API calls. But in reality, something feels off:Sign-ups increase, but users aren’t activating.Server costs rise faster than revenue.Logs are filled with repeated requests from strange user…
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Hackers Launch Massive SonicWall Firewall Attack Using 4,000+ IP Addresses
Hackers are actively mapping SonicWall firewalls worldwide, launching more than 84,000 SonicOS scanning sessions from over 4,000 unique IP addresses in just four days to identify SSL VPN targets for future credential and vulnerability attacks. Three operationally distinct infrastructure clusters coordinated large-scale VPN enumeration, with 92% of all sessions hitting a single SonicOS REST API…
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Thousands of Public Google Cloud API Keys Exposed with Gemini Access After API Enablement
New research has found that Google Cloud API keys, typically designated as project identifiers for billing purposes, could be abused to authenticate to sensitive Gemini endpoints and access private data.The findings come from Truffle Security, which discovered nearly 3,000 Google API keys (identified by the prefix “AIza”) embedded in client-side code to provide Google-related services…
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‘Silent’ Google API key change exposed Gemini AI data
Mitigation: The first job for concerned site admins is to check in the GCP console for keys specifically allowing the Generative Language API. In addition, look for unrestricted keys, now identified by a yellow warning icon. Check if any of these keys are public.Exposed keys should all be rotated or ‘regenerated,’ with a grace period…
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Public Google API keys can be used to expose Gemini AI data
Researchers found that Google API keys long treated as harmless can now unlock access to Gemini. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/public-google-api-keys-can-be-used-to-expose-gemini-ai-data/
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Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API ‘in one week’ with AI
Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/cloudflare_nextjs_api_ai/
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Your personal OpenClaw agent may also be taking orders from malicious websites
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, credentials, identity, malicious, monitoring, radius, software, update, vulnerabilityA larger blast radius: Unlike regular software vulnerabilities, compromised AI agents have a bigger blast radius as they hold sensitive API keys, session tokens, file system access, and the authority to execute tasks across enterprise tools.Barr emphasized that autonomous systems “aggregate identity, credentials, and workflow authority,” meaning a failure doesn’t occur quietly. Instead, the agent…
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Android 17 second beta expands privacy controls for contacts, SMS and local networks
Google’s second beta of Android 17 continues updates to platform behavior and introduces new APIs focused on protecting sensitive data. Protecting contact and local network … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/27/android-17-beta-privacy-updates/
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OpenClaw Insights: A CISO’s Guide to Safe Autonomous Agents FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, api, breach, ciso, compliance, control, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, finance, firewall, framework, governance, guide, LLM, network, open-source, risk, risk-management, software, strategy, technology, tool, vulnerabilityFeb 27, 2026 – Alan Fagan – The “OpenClaw” crisis has board members asking, “Could this happen to us?” The answer isn’t to ban AI agents. It’s to govern them. By now, the dust is settling on the OpenClaw (aka MoltBot) incident. The technical post-mortems (including our own) have been written, the exposed ports have…