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The API Imperative: Securing Agentic AI and Beyond
We recently released The Rise of Agentic AI, our API ThreatStats report for Q1 2025, finding that evolving API threats are fueled by the rise of agentic AI systems, growing complexity in cloud-native infrastructure, and a surge in software supply chain risks, and uncovered patterns and actionable...
AI Security is API Security: What CISOs and CIOs Need to Know
Just when CIOs and CISOs thought they were getting a grip on API security, AI came along and shook things up. In the past few years, a huge number of organizations have adopted AI, realizing innumerable productivity, operational, and efficiency benefits. However, they’re also having to deal with...
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...
Top 4 Essential Strategies for Securing APIs To Block Compromised Tokens
Government bodies are clamping down heavily on institutions and organizations that handle sensitive customer data. For APIs, tokens are used to authenticate users. We live in an era dominated by cloud-native and cloud-first solutions that rely on these services to provide dynamic data storage...
What is a Network Management Station (NMS) ?
The Bedrock of the Network Coordination Hub NCH Delving into the substantial domain of digital networks, the Network Coordination Hub NCH is unveiled as a critical component ensuring fluid network operations. Let us unravel this concept - an NCH signifies a control console employed for supervisin...
What is MDR ?
Gaining Insight: Decoding MDR's Functions As we navigate the continually evolving cybersecurity landscape, Managed Detection and Response MDR surfaces as a game-changing strategy. But, what does MDR truly signify? In its purest form, MDR marries technical expertise with sector-specific knowledge ...
Cybersecurity Engineer Guide – Job Description and How to Become
Introduction The interest for network security occupations is soaring, but the arrangement is at an incredible insufficient. Experts anticipate a 2021 increment of 3,500,000 empty web-based security occupations all over the planet, as shown by the New York Times. Essentially, there arent sufficie...
The Biggest Hacker Attacks on Gambling
Introduction With online gambling clubs turning into a staple alternative across nations like the United Kingdom, numerous sites are showing up out of nowhere and not all are protected or secure. Numerous club regulars pick to utilize correlation locales, as the UK gambling clubs recorded at...
Building Security into Cloud Native Apps with NGINX
Industries from hospitality to taxis/transportation and food delivery are being disrupted by new age companies like Airbnb, Uber and DoorDash that have a cloud-based software infrastructure as one of their main enablers. Why do all these new companies use cloud and what advantage does it give the...
The Evolution of Cyber Defense
To my knowledge, the first reference to the idea and principles of signatures for detecting network attacks dates back to 1987. This was a scientific paper by Dorothy E. Denning from Stanford Research Institute SRI Heres the link to the paper. According to the publication’s records, it was sent t...
Protecting gRPC applications and APIs
Wallarm has always stood out from its competitors when it comes to supporting modern stacks. For a long time Wallarm has been the only product to provide comprehensive protection for WebSockets-based web applications. Once again, Wallarm is glad to be the pioneer and add support for the gRPC...
Wallarm Recognized on CRN 2018 Emerging Vendor List
We are delighted to share that CRN® has named Wallarm to its 2018 Emerging Vendors List in the Security Category category. The complete Emerging Vendors list will be featured online at www.crn.com/emergingvendor. This list recognizes up-and-coming technology suppliers who are shaping the future o...
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...
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...
Top 6 Data Breaches That Cost Millions
“If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too. Criminals are using every technology tool at their disposal to hack into people’s accounts. If they know there’s a key hidden somewhere, they won’t stop until they find it.” - Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc. The entire digital...
How to Protect Your Privacy Online
Decoding the Complexities of Digital Personhood and Its Private Aspects: Elemental Groundwork As we stride through this tech-propelled age, concerns related to internet-bound privacy have risen as pressing hurdles for all cyber inhabitants around the planet. Considering the ever-broadening spectr...
Navigating Threats – Insights from the Wallarm API ThreatStats™ Report Q3’2023
The world of digital technology is perpetually evolving, positioning cybersecurity as a frontline defense in safeguarding essential digital assets. A primary challenge in this sector, accentuated by the Wallarm API ThreatStats™ report Q3’2023, is ensuring robust API security. This in-depth report...
2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API9:2023 Improper Inventory Management
Welcome to the 10th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API9:2023 Improper Inventory Management. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impac...
Testing ModSecurity for false positives by books texts
The main things that prevent enabling security solutions like WAF/RASP/IDS/IPS in a blocking mode are false positives. Probably the second one is their inline performance and additional latency, but still. As a cloud-native WAF vendor, we at Wallarm are actively checking our products for false...
Introducing the Wallarm Q1 2024 API ThreatStats™ Report
As we have in previous editions of the ThreatStats report, we highlight the industry’s top API-related attacks and trends. New to this version, however, is a detailed analysis of API attacks targeting AI-based applications, representing a new and rapidly expanding threat vector. And while we...
Unlocking API Security Excellence: Wallarm at OWASP Global AppSec DC 2023
If you're involved in securing APIs, applications and web applications, or looking to learn about these, then the OWASP Global AppSec DC Conference next week is a must-attend event. Wallarm, the experts in API and application security, will be there, and we're excited to connect with you on Octob...
8 KB is not enough: why WAFs can’t protect APIs
WAFs were a top-notch security instrument a decade ago, but now they are not. They fail to protect APIs. Meanwhile, the number of API-specific vulnerabilities grew more than twofold in 2022. According to a report by Wallarm, many such vulnerabilities have critical severity, and 33% are immediatel...
E-commerce under Brute-Force attacks: how Wallarm stops it
Most of the Wallarm e-commerce customers are running WAF protection with Brute-Force attacks protection functionality The post E-commerce under Brute-Force attacks: how Wallarm stops it appeared first on Wallarm...
Meet JWT heartbreaker, a Burp extension that finds thousands weak secrets automatically
In the recent post https://lab.wallarm.com/340-weak-jwt-secrets-you-should-check-in-your-code/, we presented a wallarm/jwt-secrets GitHub repository with a 340 JSON Web Token secrets available publicly. Using this data, its possible to check if you or your developers forgot to change default...
Exploiting Oracle WebLogic by Remote Code Execution with a /console endpoint restricted
This article explains how to exploit Oracle WebLogic for remote code execution by using valid credentials. Its useful during black-box security audits, pentests, and infrastructure audits, including automated vulnerability scanning. To set up an example playground, we will use the following docke...
New Wallarm Dashboard
There is an update in the Wallarm Console, which presents a brand new dashboard that can’t be missed. There are three significant changes that are worth mentioning: New structure. The dashboard has a new, clear structure emphasizing multiple modules of the Wallarm Platform — WAF, Scanner, FAST. T...
Top-5 stupid security mistakes in web apps
by Ivan Novikov Image by Byseyhanla Own work CC BY-SA 4.0, article re-posted from In this blog entry, I will summarize some commonly overlooked issues which have been affecting many web projects for the last 5 years. All of them are obvious and super predictable and could be used be script kiddie...
The power of Wallarm search engine
In this article I would like to show and explain my personal use cases of the Wallarm search engine. The cool thing about it is human readable search with intuitive commands. Just look at this search command before we start: attacks incidents vulns today RCE 502 For a security engineer looking at...
Extending Security to MCP Servers: Closing a Critical Gap
The Model Context Protocol MCP is a de facto standard for providing structured access to privileged systems for AI agents and external integrations. It acts as a USB-C port for AI, enabling faster innovation by allowing organizations to expose tools, resources, and workflows without the...
Update on React Server Components RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182 / CVE-2025-66478)
The attack landscape has been dynamic following the disclosure of the React Server Components RCE vulnerability. New information has emerged regarding the initial Proof-of-Concept exploit, as well as improved detection methods, exploitation mechanics observed in the wild, and rapidly growing atta...
Top Open Source API Security Tools
The modern world relies on Application Programming Interfaces APIs. They allow applications to communicate with each other, servers, and consumers to facilitate data sharing and simplify application development. Without them, the internet would be unrecognizable. However, APIs also present a...
Security Testing: Types, Tools, and Best Practices
Opening Note: Understanding the Core Concepts of Security Analysis Continual developments in technology have elevated the significance of security analysis, a critical phase in software design. You can think of it as a vital diagram within the process of coding, engineered to identify and resolve...
What is a Cloud Workload Protection Platform ? (CWPP)
Diving into the Depths of Cloud Workload Defense Framework CWDF Mysteries Setting out to understand cloud security, one frequently encounters the term - Cloud Workload Defense Framework CWDF. What exact role does CWDF play? Let's decode this riddle. At its core, the Cloud Workload Defense Framewo...
Beware of BOLA (IDOR) Vulnerabilities in Web Apps and APIs
Introduction In a recent advisory, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA warned vendors, designers, developers, and end-user organizations of web applications about the dangers posed by Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerabilities, now commonly referred to as BOLA...
OWASP API Security Top-10 for 2023 Risk Ratings
As you know by now, the final version of the OWASP API Security Top-10 2023 has been released. At first blush, the final 2023 release seems to retain most of the changes in category naming, language and intent from the 2019 edition which we saw in the RC version. In this post, we are going to...
ChatGPT Injection: a new type of API Abuse attack may steal your OpenAI API credits
ChatGPT is spreading like wildfire all over the internet, being used in everything from casual tools to cybersecurity and even industrial applications. Its so popular, I wouldnt be shocked if it starts running a nuclear power plant soon if it isnt already! Using OpenAIs ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-4, an...
Slack GitHub Account Hacked via Stolen Employee API Token
On December 29, 2022, Slack was alerted to suspicious activity on their GitHub account. Upon investigation, the company discovered that a limited number of employee tokens had been stolen and misused to gain access to an externally hosted repository. The threat actor had also downloaded private...
Wallarm launches Cloud WAF with the best-in-class API protection
An easy to use Cloud WAF and API protection package We are thrilled to announce the launch of the new Wallarm Cloud WAF deployment for Wallarm Cloud-Native Security Platform. Get your application protection up and running in 15 minutes, without any installation at all. You can now gain protection...
Key Considerations in API security
Every day, there are billions of API calls being executed. These include public APIs, private APIs, SaaS APIs, APIs performing mobile back-end functions and many more. Given the gravity of the threat and the sheer volume of what’s exposed, how do we develop systems that are both safe and robust?...
It’s Not Magic — It’s AI
New Whitepaper On How Wallarm AI Works “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” Arthur C. Clarke Ever wanted to look under the covers of deep learning/artificial intelligence engine? While deep learning algorithms are generally based on neurons combined into a neura...
Wallarm is Kairos Society fellow!
Do you know what Kairos Society is? Frankly speaking, we had never heard of it until the beginning of the year. Now we’re amazed at how lucky we are. Here is why. What is Kairos society? Kairos team reached out to us by saying that we’re one of the nominees for Top50 Innovative Companies 2017 —...
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...
What is Kafka?
Introduction to the Universe of Kafka: A Detailed Synopsis Apache Kafka, frequently just labeled as Kafka, is a universally contributed event broadcasting framework, intended to manage live streaming of data. It is engineered to be a bridge for significant volumes of data, offering a mechanism fo...
Addressing the Rising Threat of API Leaks
In the realm of cybersecurity, the metaphor of "Leaky Buckets" has become an increasingly prevalent concern, particularly in the context of API security. This term encapsulates the hidden vulnerabilities and exposures in API infrastructures that many organizations struggle to identify and address...
API Leaks
Grasping the Fundamentals of API Breaches API, short for Application Programming Interface, consists of a stipulated set of guidelines and procedures enabling heterogeneous software applications to establish communication amongst them. Conceptualize it as an interconnecting channel that unites...
What is Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) ?
Trust No One, Secure Everything: Unpacking Zero Trust Architecture In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the traditional approach of building a robust wall around your network and trusting everything inside it is no longer sufficient. The rise of cloud computing, remote work, and mobil...
Invisible rat: how Sentry, Datadog, and others used by XSS and JavaScript malware
We all know how it’s convenient to use tools like Sentry or Datadogs for JavaScript events monitoring. It allows to catch errors in real-time, organize and manage issues resolution process, and genuinely shift left operations to developers. But Wallarm security experts warn of dangerous patterns ...
SOC 2 Compliance During Covid-19 Times
A lot of IT Security Officers responsible for driving the SOC 2 certification in their companies are probably wondering how the switch to mostly remote workspaces will affect their SOC 2 landscape. I would say that there are two types of companies affected or not affected by the coronavirus:...
The Governance Gap: How the EU AI Act Makes API Security a Compliance Imperative
Your legal team just handed you a 400-page document and said "figure out compliance." The EU AI Act is live, your organization falls under its scope, which is broader than many expect. Even non‑EU companies must comply if their AI systems are used, deployed, or produce effects within the European...
7 Reasons to Get Certified in API Security
API security is becoming more important by the day and skilled practitioners are in high demand. Now’s the time to level up your API security skillset. Wallarm University, our free training course, provides security analysts, engineers, and practitioners with hands-on skills you can’t get from...