How Low-Tech Hackers Hack Your APIs in 15 Minutes or Less
APIs have become one of the most common attack vectors for modern applications, yet many organizations don’t know every API they expose. In this on-demand webinar, learn how attackers discover and exploit APIs, why Shadow APIs create dangerous security blind spots, and how continuous API discovery, security testing, and runtime protection help reduce API risk before attackers can take advantage.
Overview
It is very hard, if not impossible, to secure something you don’t know exist. While security professionals spend countless hours on complex yet interesting issues that may be exploitable in the future, basic attacks are occurring every day with little to reviews.
For example, a “dated trend” by effective yet lazy hackers is to search for API unknown by security teams, coined “Shadow APIs”, connect to these APIs, and extract data. While SQL Injection used to be the hack of choice, as a few simple SQL commands would either mean “pay dirt” or “move on to the next target”, the same can be said for Shadow API….Find, Connect, Extract.
This talk will discuss one of many methods that are used in the wild to target Shadow APIs and export large volumes of data with a few clicks of a button (lines of code in python code :). Attendees will learn about a very basic yet non-so-obvious problem in securing data, and how hackers are using creative methods to steal large volumes of data.
Key Takeaways Checklist
- How attackers identify and exploit exposed APIs using widely available tools.
- Why Shadow APIs and unmanaged endpoints significantly increase your attack surface.
- Common API security weaknesses that lead to data exposure.
- How continuous API discovery helps maintain a complete API inventory.
- Best practices for API security testing and vulnerability remediation.
- How runtime protection helps detect and block API attacks in production.