Can you ever imagine the impact on your business if it went offline on Black Friday or Cyber Monday due to a cyberattack? Black Friday is the biggest day in the retail calendar. It’s also the riskiest. As you gear up for huge surges in online traffic, ask yourself: have you protected the APIs on which the business runs? The Black Friday API Boom When you think about Black Friday, what images come to mind?…
Over the past few years, API security has gone from a relatively niche concern to a headline issue. A slew of high-profile breaches and compliance mandates like PCI DSS 4.0 have woken security teams up to the reality that APIs are the front door to their data, infrastructure, and revenue streams. OWASP recently published its first-ever Business Logic Abuse Top 10 List; a clear indication that the industry is taking API security and all its…
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 REST to AI-powered APIs. Here’s what stood out this quarter, and what security leaders should do about it. API Vulnerabilities Surge Again In Q3 2025, our researchers identified 1,602 API-related vulnerabilities, a 20% increase…
As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, we wanted to dive even deeper into the attack methods affecting APIs. We’ve already reviewed Broken Object Level Authentication (BOLA), injection attacks, and authentication flaws; this week, we’re exploring business logic abuse (BLA). Unlike technical flaws, business logic flaws exploit how an API is designed to behave. They are difficult to catch because there are no security controls monitoring “approved” behaviors, so they must be caught more creatively. Which means…
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, Slack, and Atlassian. The issue originated not in a single data center or customer workload, but in the AWS control plane, the management layer that coordinates how…
API security has never been more important because modern APIs are operational necessities. Unfortunately, many organizations are failing to adapt their security models to a rapidly changing API threat landscape. Like it or not, we live in an AI-first world, and API security must reflect that reality. The Postman 2025 State of API Report is confirmation of that fact. AI is Becoming Business Critical AI already plays a significant role in modern business functions. A…