Financial Services at Risk: DDoS Attacks Are Bigger, Longer, and More Complex, Akamai Research Finds

Pro-Iran hacktivism and AI bots are amplifying cyberattacks targeting online banking, payments, and applicationsCAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cybercriminals are now targeting ...
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Akamai Research: Web Attacks Up 33%, APIs Emerge as Primary Targets

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today released a new ...

ServiceNow discloses security incident exposing customer data

ServiceNow is warning about a security incident after attackers exploited an unauthenticated access flaw through a vulnerable ...
CNBC

The foundation of modern software development is under rising cyber attack

To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec Organizations are seeing a rise in cybersecurity attacks against application programming ...
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API Security Startup Elastic Beam Uses AI to Block Attacks

Security startup Elastic Beam launched its flagship product, an artificial-intelligence powered software platform that blocks attacks on application programming interfaces (APIs). Eighty-eight percent ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Average Number of Daily API Attacks Up 113% Annually

APIs now represent the “dominant” attack surface for global organizations, with 87% registering a related security incident last year, according to Akamai. Now in its 12 th year, the security vendor’s ...
Dark Reading

India Sees Surge in API Attacks, Especially in Banking, Utilities

Cyberattacks targeting India-based organizations continue to double year-over-year, a rate far higher than the global average, highlighting the rapidly rising risk facing companies and government ...
SDxCentral

Ghost Security Announces the World's First Curated Threat Intelligence Feed of Targeted API Attacks

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#apisec--Ghost Security, a leading provider of modern application and API security solutions, is proud to announce the early access availability of Phantasm, ...
Business Wire

Imperva Application Security Integrates API Detection and Response, Setting A New Standard in API Security

First unified, single-pane-of-glass platform to deliver real-time detection and mitigation of API threats, including Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) and other advanced business logic threats ...
Digi Times

RayAegis unveils critical API and AI security threats, offering cutting-edge solutions

In recent years, API attacks—especially those involving shadow APIs— have become an increasing concern. Some of the most destructive types of API attacks include command injection and malicious ...
Computer Weekly

AI-powered APIs proving highly vulnerable to attack

More than 150 billion application programming interface (API) attacks were observed in the wild during 2023 and 2024, according to data released this week by cloud security specialist Akamai, with the ...