Attackers Abuse DocuSign API to Send Authentic-Looking Invoices At Scale

In a concerning trend, cybercriminals are leveraging DocuSign's APIs to send fake invoices that appear strikingly authentic. Unlike traditional phishing scams that rely on deceptively crafted emails and malicious links, these incidents use genuine DocuSign accounts and templates to impersonate...

How Can Deliberately Flawed APIs Help In Mastering API Security?

In our recent webinar recent webinar title 'A CISO’s Checklist for Securing APIs and Applications', we delved into the concept of creating an API security playground tailored for both developer and security teams. The core idea revolves around utilizing intentionally vulnerable APIs as training...

Webinar: Join us for the latest in API Threats on January 24, 2024

In today's complex digital landscape, the security of APIs has become paramount. As we move into 2024, it's essential to stay ahead of the evolving API security threats and vulnerabilities. The upcoming webinar on "API ThreatStats™ Report: 2023 Year-In-Review" is your quickest way to learn about...

What is Traffic Shaping ?

Unraveling the Enigma of Traffic Modulation Within the realm of digital information, data traffic parallels a high-speed freeway, ferrying packets of details to-and-fro. So what transpires when there's an excessive influx, leading to an overburdened data expressway? This is where the enigma of...

What is a Logic Bomb?

Cyber-attacks have become a norm these days as many as 4,000 attacks are happening every day, alone in the US. Bad actors have ample ways to target it’s the victim and the logic bomb is one of them. Logic bomb virus may seem subtle on the surface but can be profoundly damaging, if not taken care ...

Securing GraphQL. Part 1

GraphQL is an alternative to the REST concept that allows working with the data in a more structured and object-oriented way. This technology is very famous and used by many enterprise companies such as Facebook, Walmart, Intuit among other. Whether you know it or not, GraphQL has a significant...

Randy Bias joins Wallarm board of advisers

Menlo Park, California — December 5, 2017 — Wallarm today announced that Randy Bias, Vice President of Technology and Strategy, Cloud Software at Juniper and founder of Cloudscaling acquired by EMC, has joined Wallarm’s board of advisers. “Randy is an agile cloud pioneer and a thought leader in...

What to look for when considering a WAF?

When web based applications become important components of business IP, protecting these applications is a key part of doing business. Most of IT and DevOps professionals are not thinking whether they need a Web Application Firewall WAF. Instead, they are trying to decide which WAF is right for...

CISO Spotlight: Dimitris Georgiou on Building Security that Serves People First

Dimitris Georgiou has been a self-professed computer geek since the early 80s. At university, he studied the convergence of educational technology with computer science as part of his psychology MA – finding, to his disbelief, that systems were perilously insecure. Since then, he’s always worked ...

API Specifications: Why, When, and How to Enforce Them

APIs facilitate communication between different software applications and power a wide range of everyday digital experiences, from weather apps to streaming services and everything in between. They are also a critical ingredient of AI. However, if not structured and standardized properly, APIs ca...

Top 3 API Leaks Identified by Cybersecurity & InfoSec Experts

APIs Application Programming Interfaces have proliferated widely, which increases their susceptibility to various vulnerabilities. In the realm of web applications, prime examples that stand out are SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol and Representational State Transfer REST APIs. Due to their...

The Future of Cybersecurity

Pioneering the Forward-Thinking Epoch of Internet Safety As we brace for an era anticipated to offer a deeper entwined digital landscape, a profound transformation stirs within the realms of online safety. As we are safeguarding not just personal computers or mobile devices, but also other...

What Is Network Security Management?

At the Heart of The Matter: Unraveling Essential Elements of Network Safeguard Administration in Digital Space The sphere of Online Network Safeguard Supervision presents a vast playground, humming with an abundance of methods, protocols, and modern-day tech tools. Together, their role is to...

What is Progressive Delivery ?

Delving Into the Essential Elements of Incremental Deployment Incremental deployment is an approach in the realm of software engineering, characterized by a phased release cycle. It allows the introduction of new features or updates to a select user community initially, before rolling them out to...

Impact of the New SEC Cyber Incident Reporting Rules on the C-Suite and Beyond

We recently hosted a compact and very engaging panel discussion about the new SEC Cyber Incident Reporting Rules due to come into effect later this year. We were fortunate to be joined by two well-known experts: Sue Bergamo, a CISO, CIO, Board Member, Executive Advisor, and Investor with a track...

Holistic API Security Strategy for 2023

In the digital landscape of 2023, Application Programming Interfaces APIs have taken center stage in business operations. APIs act as the backbone of many digital services, enabling software applications to communicate and exchange data with each other. As businesses increasingly rely on APIs for...

Learn from the T-Mobile API Breach to Improve Your API Security Program in 2023

A CISO’s job has never been more challenging. Engineering teams move fast, especially as organizations are accelerating their digital transformation efforts. The tech stack is exploding and varies greatly across the organization. And there is a surge of internal, external, and partner APIs. It’s...

Wallarm Releases New End-to-End Solution to Reduce Risk and Time-to-Remediate Leaked API Keys and Secrets

Advancement to API Security Technology Will Combat Recent Surge in Hacks Leveraging Leaked API; Early Release Now Available San Francisco, CA –BUSINESS WIRE– January 19, 2023 – Wallarm, the end-to-end API security company, today announced the early release of the Wallarm API Leak Management...

OWASP Top-10 2022: Forecast Based on Statistics

For tech innovators and security experts, what OWASP Top-10 says or predicts is much attention-worthy as this globally recognized document guide about the hidden and damage-causing security threats. As the year 2022 has begun, the people willing to learn about the latest security trends and...

OSS API Firewall Unveils new Feature: Blacklist for Compromised API Tokens and Cookies

Discovering and securing any API is one of the most difficult challenges for developers. The API security landscape is constantly evolving, with new threats and vulnerabilities emerging at a rapid pace. Since commercial API security solutions could be really expensive for organizations, its never...

Native integrations in Wallarm WAF

How to configure sending reports to email? How to get a notification to the messenger about an event requiring a response? How to connect Wallam and other solutions that use DevOps and the security team? Integrations will help to solve all these issues in Wallam WAF. And today we'll talk about th...

Do you think web passwords are the weakest link in security? Indeed they are.

Between 500K and 500M sets of credentials have been compromised over the recent years, according to various sources. Just last week, a compromise of an educational service Edmondo has been reported to expose as many as 78M user accounts. At the same time, individual users are exposed to so many...

Introducing Wallarm Middle East Cloud: Built for Data Residency Compliance

As API and AI adoption grows across the Middle East, so do the expectations around how data is handled. For many organizations operating in this region, it’s not just about securing applications. It’s about doing it in a way that keeps data in-country and aligned with local requirements. Today,...

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...

When your AI Assistant Becomes the Attacker’s Command-and-Control

Earlier this month, Microsoft uncovered SesameOp, a new backdoor malware that abuses the OpenAI Assistants API as a covert command-and-control C2 channel. The discovery has drawn significant attention within the cybersecurity community. Security teams can no longer focus solely on endpoint malwar...

Digital Experience Monitoring | What Is DEM?

Introduction to Digital Experience Monitoring: Illuminating the Basics In an era governed by technology, the satisfaction of an end-user is of utmost importance. It has the power to stimulate or to halt business growth, and frequently determines if a client continues or discontinues their...

Blocking Compromised Tokens with Wallarm

In our Annual API ThreatStats report, we highlighted the increasing threat of API Leaks. An API Leak is the disclosure of sensitive API information, such as a token, credential, or private schema. These leaks can occur directly via the API itself, but also via third party tools used to manage...

What Is Dynamic DNS

Delving into the Multiple Aspects of the Dynamic Domain Name Protocol DDNS: A Detailed Scrutiny DDNS, standing for Dynamic Domain Name System, is an automatic procedure crafted to maintain the synchronization of the data associated with a DNS server. This system functions uninterruptedly to make...

MQTT vs AMQP

The Initial Overview: Learning about MQTT & AMQP In the dynamic arenas of Internet of Things IoT" and cloud computing, communication protocols that are robust, reliable and capable of handling high traffic volumes have become essential. The two protocols that have recently gained significant grou...

What is Quality of Service?

Dominating an imperative role in boosting the so-called 'efficiency quotient' within a networking system is the Quality of Service or QoS. Let's dive in and explore the crucial components that make QoS pivotal. In essence, QoS is a blend of a multitude of methodologies and hi-tech devices,...

EDR vs MDR vs XDR

In the realm of security measures within the digital expanse, we recurrently stumble upon designations, namely, EDR Endpoint Detection and Response, MDR Managed Detection and Response, and XDR Extended Detection and Response. These abbreviations express singular methodologies fashioned to augment...

XDR vs. SIEM

Enhanced Discovery and Resolution, or more commonly known as XDR, serves as a revolutionary model in cybersecurity. It works by combining multiple security apparatuses into a solitary system, thus uplifting the ability for threat detections and subsequent responses. Unlike the standard...

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...

New from Wallarm Research: First AI-based Tool to Predict Vulnerability Risk

Wallarm Inc., a leading developer of AI-based Web Application security solutions, and Vulners.com, the security database of software vulnerabilities in machine-readable format, today announced the release of a free vulnerability assessment tool that utilizes a unique neutral neural network...

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...

ToolShell: Remote Code Execution in Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2025-53770)

On July 19, 2025, a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability CVE-2025-53770, also referred to as ToolShell was publicly disclosed, impacting on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server installations. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely by...

How Is API Abuse Different from Web Application Attacks by Bots?

API abuse and web application bot attacks are often confused. This is understandable, as both involve automated interactions and are usually executed by bots. Both attack vectors are prevalent; criminals are always eager to disrupt the foundations on which businesses base their operations to...

Sistema Automático de Identificación de Huellas Dactilares – AFIS

Historia del sistema automatizado de identificación de huellas dactilares No cabe duda, el Mecanismo Computarizado de Detección de Marcas Dactilares, usualmente abreviado como AFIS, ha tenido un rol crucial en la intensificación de la seguridad y en la eficacia de los procedimientos judiciales...

What Is Network Segmentation

Unearthing the Basics: Your Guide to Understanding Network Partitioning A fundamental tenet of network partitioning is its critical role in digital defense. But, what does this truly embody? If you were to break it down, network partitioning refers to an approach that segregates a digital system...

What is SSL VPN?

Deciphering SSL VPN: An In-depth Perspective Pivoting our lens towards data in this digital era, akin to the transition observed during the oil boom, we've realized that the fodder for importance today is safeguarding data while it voyages through global networks. SSL VPN Secure Sockets Layer...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API8:2023 Security Misconfiguration

Welcome to the 9th 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 API8:2023 Security Misconfiguration. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and...

Wallarm Presenting at BSides Albuquerque

If you’re in the Albuquerque area this Friday and/or Saturday, we hope you’re planning on going to BSides ABQ – it promises to be a fun-filled weekend of learning. The team there has pulled together an interesting set of talks covering a wide variety of topics such as Infosec Ontology, Social...

Insights into the New OWASP API Security Top-10 for CISOs

ICYMI, we recently presented A CISOs Guide to the New 2023 OWASP API Security Update. In this first of two planned webinars, Stepan Ilyin and Tim Ebbers provided an overview of what’s in and what’s out in the planned update and had a lively discussion about how this impacts your API security plan...

What Is Local File Inclusion Vulnerability?

Introduction This article clarifies what nearby record consideration LFI weaknesses are, including the way assailants can take advantage of them on weak web applications and what safe coding practices can assist you with forestalling local document incorporation assaults. Record incorporations ar...

Scholarship Results

Its time to sum up the results of the 2021 scholarship! As you know, we extended the scholarship for 1 month until October 30th because there were many applications and few finished papers. By October 30 the situation had not changed, only 1 essay had been added and became 4, the number of...

HOWTO: Prevent your AWS credentials and other secrets from being exposed in code repositories

Uber had AWS credentials exposed on GitHub. As thousands of other companies do. It has been known for a while that nuggets such as private keys and credentials can be found with the GitHub search functionality or with Google dorks so looking for sensitive information in GitHub repositories is not...

The CISO’s Dilemma: How To Scale AI Securely

Your board wants AI. Your developers are building with it. Your budget committee is asking for an ROI timeline. But as CISO, you're the one who has to answer when the inevitable question comes up: "How do we know this is secure?" If you're like most security leaders, you're caught between two...

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...

Exploiting API4 — 8 Real-World Unrestricted Resource Consumption Attack Scenarios (and How to Stop Them)

Unrestricted Resource ConsumptionAPI4:2023 is the only threat category in the OWASP API Security Top 10 explicitly dedicated to Denial of Service DoS and resource abuse. But despite being just one category, attackers can exploit it in many different ways; from large file uploads and expensive...

Developer Leaks API Key for Private Tesla, SpaceX LLMs

In AI, as with so many advancing technologies, security often lags innovation. The xAI incident, during which a sensitive API key remained exposed for nearly two months, is a stark reminder of this disconnect. Such oversights not only jeopardize proprietary technologies but also highlight systemi...