Case Studies

What happens when the system designed to authenticate you to your online accounts is vulnerable itself? Threat actors recently verified phone numbers for millions of Authy users via an unsecured API endpoint.

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July 1, 2024

New Cryptomining Campaigns Use Exposed Docker APIs

A new type of API attack has been discovered- and it’s particularly pernicious. The target? Exposed Docker APIs. The objective? Spreading cryptojacking malware.

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June 28, 2024

FireTail Using FireTail- Eating Our Own Dog Food

When Jeremy and I founded FireTail in 2022, our mission was to improve API security for everyone. And that included ourselves.

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June 17, 2024

Google's GitHub Goof

Google probably didn’t want this to happen. The tech giant accidentally posted a whole host of sensitive internal documents to GitHub that partly detailed the way the search engine ranks web pages.

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June 13, 2024

Sensitive Meeting Data Left Vulnerable to Cyber Infiltration

Let’s talk about a recent example of an API vulnerability that was exploited to gain access to data within the German government.

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June 10, 2024

When the Internet Connects to You

Researcher Sam Curry recently discovered some alarming vulnerabilities in his modem, a Cox Panoramic wifi gateway. It all started when he noticed an unknown IP address was copying his same HTTP requests.

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