340 weak JWT secrets you should check in your code

JSON Web Token JWT is the data format with bill-in signature and encryption mechanisms that are often used by modern web applications to store user sessions and application context, including authentication by SSO and meta-data. Usually, you can find JWT tokens in an Authentication Bearer HTTP...

Choose the right ingress controller for your Kubernetes environment

Choosing the right ingress controller can help you ensure the right infrastructure, direction, and level of customization. Get the information about ingress controllers you need. The post Choose the right ingress controller for your Kubernetes environment appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

Frenemy at the Gates: The Breaching

Online businesses have to be careful. It’s a dangerous world, full of anonymous people and services wearing digital skins. It sounds horrific because it is. On the other side of a transaction, could be anyone. Extra measures have to be made to secure web interfaces and API endpoints that online...

Inside Modern API Attacks: What We Learn from the 2026 API ThreatStats Report

API security has been a growing concern for years. However, while it was always seen as important, it often came second to application security or hardening infrastructure. In 2025, the picture changed. Wallarm’s 2026 API ThreatStats Report revealed that APIs are now the primary attack surface fo...

Wallarm Halts Remote Code Execution Exploits: Defense for Vulnerable React Server Component Workflows

On December 3, 2025, React maintainers disclosed a critical unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability in React Server Components RSC, tracked as CVE-2025-55182. A working PoC was released publicly, and Wallarm immediately began observing widespread exploitation attempts across...

Protecting Against Bot-Enabled API Abuse

APIs have become the backbone of modern digital ecosystems, powering everything from mobile apps to e-commerce platforms. However, as APIs grow in importance, they also become prime targets for malicious actors. Increasingly, bots are being weaponized to exploit vulnerabilities, overwhelm systems...

What is XDR ?

Unpacking XDR: Broadened Acknowledgment and Response In the perpetually advancing domain of digital protection, new lingo and philosophies constantly emerge. Among the more recent additions is XDR, an acronym for Extended Detection and Response. This passage will provide a detailed insight into...

Fetching Full-Text Alert Data with the Wallarm API

A lot of information about detected malicious requests is already available in the Wallarm console UI. However, the search functionality of the Wallarm UI does not provide full visibility into every type of potential attack or full details of a particular alert. If this level of visibility is...

Protect your Helm chart bundled application with Wallarm WAF. 10-minutes configuration for continuous and enhanced security

Every application has its own specific goals, critical aspects, and needs. So, the logical conclusion would be that every app needs an in-depth manual configuration, right? Well, here at Wallarm, we’re security experts and developers from the real world, and we know that in many cases time,...

How to easily protect any Kubernetes application?

The king of container orchestration needs the best security companion: Wallarm WAF. When it comes to speed, portability, and the advantages of microservices architecture, no other product can compete with Kubernetes as a container orchestrator. Nevertheless, even the best solutions have challenge...

Choose the right ingress controller for your Kubernetes environment

Choosing the right ingress controller can help you ensure the right infrastructure, direction, and level of customization. Get the information about ingress controllers you need. The post Choose the right ingress controller for your Kubernetes environment appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

Autoscaling Wallarm Nodes in AWS, GCP, and Azure

Newly updated Wallarm Node images now natively support autoscaling capabilities in AWS, GCP, and Azure. Updated images are already available in cloud provider marketplaces and can rely on the native auto-scaling to adjust the number of nodes based on traffic, CPU load, and other parameters. What ...

Why ArtsSEC decided to partner with Wallarm

by Maximiliano Soler, @maxisoler by Maximiliano Soller, CTO of ArtsSEC The greatest thing with partnerships is how well the organisations’ expertise complement each other. Our partnership with Wallarm has incredibly exceeded our expectations in their innovation and expertise in web application...

Attacking the MCP Trust Boundary

Every secure API draws a line between code and data. HTTP separates headers from bodies. SQL has prepared statements. Even email distinguishes the envelope from the message. The Model Context Protocol MCP, the fast-growing standard for connecting AI agents to external services, inherits that gap...

From Agent2Agent Prompt Injection to Runtime Self-Defense: How Wallarm Redefines Agentic AI Security

Is an AI-to-AI attack scenario a science fiction possibility only for blockbusters like the Terminator series of movies? Well, maybe not! Researchers recently discovered that one AI agent can “inject malicious instructions into a conversation, hiding them among otherwise benign client requests an...

Wallarm Research Releases Nuclei Template to Counter Threats Targeting LLM Apps

Wallarm Research has just released a powerful new Nuclei template targeting a new kind of exposure: the Model Context Protocol MCP. This isn’t about legacy devtools or generic JSON-RPC pinging. It’s about the protocol fueling next-gen LLM applications — and it’s already showing up exposed in the...

API Armor: How Bybit’s Real-Time Blacklisting Is Thwarting a $1.5B Crypto Heist

APIs present a security risk—that much is a given. Attacks on APIs have caused some of the most significant security incidents of the past decades. But the question now is: How can we flip the script and leverage their power to enhance security? Bybit might just have the answer. Bybit—one of the...

Chicago API Security Summit 2024

Thank You Chicago! Earlier this week we had the pleasure of hosting a regional API Security Summit in Chicago well, actually in Lombard. These summits bring together the local cybersecurity community for half-day of API Security-focused content, including expert speakers and panelists. While this...

Evolution of Attack Surface Management

The Early Days: Basic Asset Management While it was not called ASM, the concept of managing attack surface management began with basic asset management practices in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Organizations focused on keeping an inventory of their digital assets, such as servers, desktops, an...

Unveiling Top API Vulnerabilities and Emerging Trends: Introducing the Wallarm Q2 2024 API ThreatStats™ Report

As we move through 2024, the Wallarm Research Team continues to monitor the evolving API vulnerability and threat landscape. Our latest Q2 ThreatStats™ Report reveals critical trends and developments that are reshaping the security environment. Continuing from our Q1 findings, the surge in AI API...

CISO: funciones y responsabilidades laborales 🛡️

Significado de CISO En el ámbito corporativo, CISO es un acrónimo ampliamente reconocido que denota a "Chief Information Security Officer", que se puede interpretar en español como el Encargado Principal de Salvaguardar la Información. Este encargo representa una posición esencial en el organigra...

What Is Network Availability?

Within the sphere of IT, 'network accessibility' is a term frequently used. Yet, does everyone understand its connotation? Simplistically put, network accessibility alludes to how readily a network or system can be accessed by its users. It quantifies to what extent a system is functioning and...

Discovering Shadow APIs with Wallarm API firewall

Shadow APIs can be defined as active endpoints that you are not aware of. Some APIs are deployed but never documented. Others are services that don’t have an owner anymore. Some are even old v2 versions that have been deprecated for years, yet still exposed. Long story short: these APIs are not...

Exporting Nginx Access Logs to an ELK Cluster

The Wallarm WAF provides an organization with the ability to protect their applications and APIs against a wide range of attacks. However, an organization may wish to achieve a greater degree of visibility into attack traffic and alerts than is possible via the Wallarm user interface. The Wallarm...

An Analog Approach to Secure Operations in Kubernetes

Security is not something you achieve. It's something you continually take care of and understand as constantly transforming. Here are our tips about your K8s cybersecurity The post An Analog Approach to Secure Operations in Kubernetes appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

Using Threat Modeling in Cybersecurity to Hunt and Remediate

Modern-day cyberattacks keep growing in sophistication and sheer volume. This dynamic makes it virtually impossible to detect and block all attacks using the traditional methods of comparing incoming requests to known attack signatures. To effectively operate in this new aggressive cyberthreat...

Five Reasons Why I Joined Wallarm

By Johan Nordstrom The question of “what made you change jobs?” may be old, but the answer with my move to Wallarm is new and clear. I have a vision how to address the dynamic threat landscape of today and Wallarm’s innovative approach to security is in line with these ideas. In my 30 years caree...

The Myth of “Known APIs”: Why Inventory-First Security Models Are Already Obsolete

You probably think the security mantra “you can’t protect what you don’t know about” is an inarguable truth. But you would be wrong. It doesn’t hold water in today’s threat landscape. Of course, it sounds reasonable. Before you secure APIs, you must first discover, inventory, and document them...

When APIs Become Attack Paths: What the Q3 2025 ThreatStats Report Tells Us

Wallarm’s latest Q3 2025 API ThreatStats report link placeholder reveals that API vulnerabilities, exploits, and breaches are not just increasing; they’re evolving. Malicious actors are shifting from code-level weaknesses to business logic flaws, from web apps to partner integrations, and from RE...

AWS Outage: Lessons Learned

What can we learn from the recent AWS outage, and how can we apply those lessons to our own infrastructure? What Happened? On October 20, 2025 , AWS experienced a major disruption that rippled across the internet and social media, affecting widely used services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slac...

Comprehensive MCP Security Checklist: Protecting Your AI-Powered Infrastructure

With innovation comes risk. As organizations race to build AI-first infrastructure, security is struggling to keep pace. Multi-Agentic Systems – those built on Large Language Models LLMs and Multi-Component Protocols MCP - bring immense potential, but also novel vulnerabilities that traditional...

CISO Spotlight: Mike Wilkes on Building Resilience in an Evolving Threat Landscape

Mike Wilkes has had a career many cybersecurity professionals could only dream of. An adjunct professor, former CISO of Marvel and MLS, member of the World Economic Forum, drummer, and board member at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, his interests and achievements are as eclectic as they are...

Threat Replay Testing: Turning Attackers into Pen Testers

API security is no longer just a concern; it’s a critical priority for businesses. With APIs serving as the backbone of modern applications, they’ve become a primary target for attackers. While automated security testing tools help detect vulnerabilities, their limitations leave organizations...

AI Agents and API Security: The Hidden Risks Lurking in Your Business Logic

Modern organizations are becoming increasingly reliant on agentic AI, and for good reason: AI agents can dramatically improve efficiency and automate mission-critical functions like customer support, sales, operations, and even security. However, this deep integration into business processes...

API Security Is At the Center of OpenAI vs. DeepSeek Allegations

With a high-stakes battle between OpenAI and its alleged Chinese rival, DeepSeek, API security was catapulted to priority number one in the AI community today. According to multiple reports, OpenAI and Microsoft have been investigating whether DeepSeek improperly used OpenAI’s API to train its ow...

Top Tool Capabilities to Prevent AI-Powered Attacks

Recent advances in AI technologies have granted organizations and individuals alike unprecedented productivity, efficiency, and operational benefits. AI is, without question, the single most exciting emerging technology in the world. However, it also brings enormous risks. While the dystopian,...

Beyond Passwords: Advanced API Authentication Strategies for Enhanced Security

Passwordless authentication for end users is taking the world by storm, offering organizations and individuals alike unprecedented security, user experience, and efficiency benefits. By all indications, the next generation of authentication for end users has finally arrived, sending the password...

What Is Policy-as-Code

Decoding the Enigma: Policy-as-Code Explained The Information Technology IT sector can often feel like a maze of intricate jargon and theories. A phrase gaining traction in this field is Policy-as-Code PaC. However, what does Policy-as-Code entail? Let's demystify this enigma. Policy-as-Code...

Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security

Understand the best practices of shifting left to change your DevOps into DevSecOps. Your security health will get a serious boost. The post Shift to Microservices: Evolve Your Security Practices & Container Security appeared first on Wallarm Blog...

Frenemy at the Gates: The Breaching

Online businesses have to be careful. It’s a dangerous world, full of anonymous people and services wearing digital skins. It sounds horrific because it is. On the other side of a transaction, could be anyone. Extra measures have to be made to secure web interfaces and API endpoints that online...

MTGOX: Crypto Failure is in the Name.

Understanding how cryptocurrency exchanges evolved into hacker fantasy islands is all in the name. MTGOX, a company remembered for the largest crypto breach in history, is an acronym for Magic The Gathering Online Exchange MTGOX. The absurd rise and fall of MTGOX is critical to understanding the...

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...

CISO Spotlight: Craig Riddell on Curiosity, Translation, and Why API Security is the New Business Imperative

It’s an unusually cold winter morning in Houston, and Craig Riddell is settling into his new role as Wallarm’s Global Field CISO. It’s a position that suits him down to the ground, blending technical depth, empathy, business acumen, and, what Craig believes, the most underrated skill in...

Wallarm: API Security Platform of the Year 2025

2025 has been one of Wallarm’s biggest years yet. In the last few months alone, we unveiled our industry-first API Revenue Protection capability, launched our next-gen Security Edge offering, were included in the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America, and announced o...

What CISA’s BOD 25-01 Means for API Security and How Wallarm Can Help

The US government has taken another significant step towards strengthening cloud security with the release of CISA’s Binding Operational Directive BOD 25-01. Aimed at improving the security posture of federal cloud environments, BOD 25-01 mandates robust configuration, visibility, and control...

Beyond Traditional Threats: The Rise of AI-Driven API Vulnerabilities

AI has had dramatic impacts on almost every facet of every industry. API security is no exception. Up until recently, defending APIs meant guarding against well-understood threats. But as AI proliferates, automated adversaries, AI-crafted exploits, and business logic abuse have complicated matter...

Addressing API Security with NIST SP 800-228

According to the Wallarm Q1 2025 ThreatStats report, 70% of all application attacks target APIs. The industry can no longer treat API security as a sidenote; it’s time to treat it as the main event. NIST seems to be on board with this view, releasing the initial public draft of NIST SP 800-228, a...

The API Security Challenge in AI: Preventing Resource Exhaustion and Unauthorized Access

Agentic AI is transforming business. Organizations are increasingly integrating AI agents into core business systems and processes, using them as intermediaries between users and these internal systems. As a result, these organizations are improving efficiency, automating routine tasks, and drivi...

Unsolved Challenge: Why API Access Control Vulnerabilities Remain a Major Security Risk

Despite advancements in API security, access control vulnerabilities, such as broken object-level authentication BOLA and broken function-level authentication BFLA, remain almost impossible to detect. This blog will explore why these vulnerabilities are so difficult to detect, the limitations of...

What is The Dark Web ?

The Undernet, a term frequently shrouded in enigma and often linked with unlawful activities, is a concealed segment of the digital world that is purposefully veiled and unreachable via regular internet browsers. This chapter aims to unveil the secrets of the Undernet, step by step demythifying i...