Newly launched APIs found by attackers in under 30 seconds

Organizations rely on APIs to make their systems easily accessible across platforms. However, new APIs are typically less protected and less secure. New research from Wallarm shows the average time for a new API to be found by attackers is just 29 seconds. The research used a honeypot to look at API activity and in its first 20 days in November the lngest time taken for a new API to be discovered was 34 seconds. The most common attack types are CVE exploitation (40 percent), discovery (34 percent) and authentication checks (26 percent). Connections via port 80 are the most… [Continue Reading]