Wallarm, the leading unified platform for API and agentic AI security, today announced the release of its Q2 2025 API ThreatStats Report. The report offers a deep dive into the evolving API threat landscape, spotlighting a dramatic rise in logic-layer vulnerabilities and threats targeting AI development and orchestration environments. Wallarm analysis...
This week, we dive into detailed reports of vulnerabilities impacting Intel, McDonald's, and the social media app TeaForHer, each with valuable lessons for API security. We also look at the latest news and rising costs from the Optus 2022 API breach. Finally, we highlight an insightful article offering practical tips for designing APIs for efficient
arXiv:2508.11711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GraphQL's flexibility, while beneficial for efficient data fetching, introduces unique security vulnerabilities that traditional API security mechanisms often fail to address. Malicious GraphQL queries can exploit the language's dynamic nature, leading to denial-of-service attacks, data exfiltration through injection, and other exploits. Existing solutions, such as static analysis, rate limiting, and general-purpose Web Application Firewalls,...
Salt Security Unveils Groundbreaking Research Urging Organisations to Prioritize API Security to Unlock the True Potential of Agentic AI A new Salt Security report, Securing the Future of Agentic AI: Building Consumer Trust through Robust API Security highlights a critical warning: without proper Application Programming Interface (API) discovery, governance and security, the very technology...
APIs operate throughout the digital world to support mobile applications, enable cloud capabilities, power GenAI tools, and conduct invisible operations during every digital interaction. As the growth of API usage accelerates, Akamai's 2024 API Security Impact Report shows that organizations find it difficult to align their security efforts with the expanding risk domain. The third annual study by Akamai reveals that API incidents have evolved from abstract concepts into frequent occurrences...