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The OAS platform is a widely used data connectivity solution that unites industrial devices, SCADA systems, IoTs, network points, custom applications, custom APIs, and databases under a holistic system. According to a report by Cisco Talos, OAS platform version 16.00.0112 and below is vulnerable to a range of high and critical severity bugs that create the potential for damaging attacks.
More than 380,000 Kubernetes API servers allow some kind of access to the public internet, making the popular open-source container-orchestration engine for managing cloud deployments an easy target and broad attack surface for threat actors, researchers have found. The Shadowserver Foundation discovered the access when it scanned the internet for Kubernetes API servers, of which there are more than 450,000, according to a blog post published this week.
With concerns continuing to mount, a 451 Research and Noname Security report covers the key characteristics and security risks present in API usage today and how a holistic approach to API security provides a gateway to a frictionless user experience. Conducted in January 2022 and featuring results from IT experts representing over 350 global companies in diverse industries with 3,000+ full-time employees, the report captures the main pain points associated with API security today, the effectiveness of other enterprise-grade security solutions, and characteristics of effective API security solutions such as maintaining accurate API inventories and requiring user authentication.
With the growth in digital transformation, the API management market is set to grow by more than 30% by the year 2025 as more businesses build web APIs and consumers grow to rely on them for everything from mobile apps to customized digital services. Cybercriminals are targeting APIs more aggressively than ever before, and businesses must take a proactive approach to API security to combat this new aggression.
GitHub has announced on Monday that it expanded its code hosting platform's secrets scanning capabilities for GitHub Advanced Security customers to block secret leaks automatically. Secret scanning is an advanced security option that organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud with a GitHub Advanced Security license can enable for additional repository scanning.
GitHub has announced on Monday that it expanded its code hosting platform's secrets scanning capabilities for GitHub Advanced Security customers to block secret leaks automatically. Secret scanning is an advanced security option that organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud with a GitHub Advanced Security license can enable for additional repository scanning.
Cequence Security released a report revealing that both developers and attackers have made the shift to APIs. After analyzing some of the most interesting bot attacks throughout 2021, it's clear that attackers have come to love APIs just as much as developers.
Although many financial institutions are aware of the need for API security to support their new corporate reality, they do not really know how to approach it and especially with which tools. In the API security domain, financial organizations are looking for tools that handle the whole lifecycle.
Security analysts warn of a sharp rise in API attacks over the past year, with most companies still following inadequate practices to tackle the problem. More specifically, Salt Security reports a growth of 681% of API attack traffic in 2021, while the overall API traffic increased by 321%. These stats underline that as industries adopt API solutions, attacks against them are growing disproportionally.
An Iranian geopolitical nexus threat actor has been uncovered deploying two new targeted malware that come with "Simple" backdoor functionalities as part of an intrusion against an unnamed Middle East government entity in November 2021. The attacks are said to have been orchestrated via spear-phishing messages to gain initial access, followed by taking advantage of publicly available offensive security tools and remote access software for lateral movement and maintaining access to the environment.