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By Keshav Malik
Every single day, billions of API calls happen across the internet. Behind your favorite applications, APIs work quietly to move data and connect systems. But with the growing use of APIs, API attacks didn’t just increase – they exploded. Take the Optus breach in September 2022, in which attackers exploited an unprotected API endpoint and accessed the personal data of up to 9.8 million customers, leading to a $10 million fine.
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By Keshav Malik
In the rapidly changing field of software development, application programming interfaces (APIs) are very powerful tools. They allow different applications to communicate, share data, and collaborate seamlessly, constituting approximately 71% of all web traffic. However, as APIs become more essential to our applications, they also attract cyber threats. In fact, 57% of organizations reported experiencing at least one API-related data breach in the past two years.
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By Sanskriti Jain
Coined by Gartner in 2022, continuous threat exposure management, or CTEM is a structured framework for continuously assessing, prioritizing, validating, and remediating vulnerabilities across an organization’s attack surface, enabling you to respond effectively to the most pressing threats over an ever-expanding attack surface. Reactive security is a temporary fix, not a sustainable solution.
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By Prateek Kuber
Product Name: Dynamic Dashboard Vulnerability: Stored XSS Vulnerable Version: >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.1 CVE: CVE-2024-47817 On October 5, 2024, the security researchers from Astra discovered a severe Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Dynamic Dashboard’s paragraph widget. The widget, used for text and markdown, has inadequate input sanitization allowing attackers to inject malicious code.
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By Prateek Kuber
Product Name: Dynamic Dashboard Vulnerability: Stored XSS Vulnerable Version: >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.1 CVE: CVE-2024-47817 Astra Security researchers identified a vulnerability in LocalAI, an Open-Source OpenAI alternative. The vulnerability, CVE-2024-9900, is a stored Cross-Site Scripting issue affecting the LocalAI v2.21.1 prompts, which allow malicious scripts and payloads to be input.
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By Rithika
As organizations grow and adopt cloud-native technologies, securing digital infrastructure at scale has become increasingly complex. According to the Cloud Security Alliance, 73% of organizations struggle to secure business-critical cloud applications due to misconfigurations and limited risk visibility. Ransomware alone can cost companies millions, and with the rise in cyber threats, even cyber insurance may not fully protect them from repeated attacks.
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By Prateek Kuber
Product Name: bodi0’s Easy Cache Vulnerability: Stored XSS Vulnerable Version: Will be disclosed soon CVE: Will be disclosed soon On September 16, 2024, the team of pentesters at Astra Security found a stored Cross-Site Scripting or XSS in bodi0’s Easy Cache plugin. It is a plugin designed for WordPress that helps optimize the caching functionality, thus allowing enhanced page loading and reducing the server load.
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By Sanskriti Jain
This Cyber Security Awareness month, we’re thrilled to launch The 403 Circle, our new community-driven approach to building a safer world. It isn’t for everyone, but it might be for you. We are surrounded by an overwhelming trove of information, from AI chatbots and mile-long whitepapers to social networks or ‘communities’ that treat you like a product—to acquire, upsell, and renew contracts. At Astra, we strive to simplify proactive security.
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By Jinson Varghese
A penetration test or a pentest is a simulated cyber attack on a computer system by ethical hackers to discover and exploit vulnerabilities, mimicking real-world attackers to assess an organization’s security posture across web apps, networks, apps, and APIs.
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By Ananda Krishna
Vulnerability scanning is the process of evaluating web and mobile applications, APIs consumed by them, or systems, networks, and cloud infrastructures to identify vulnerabilities. It involves using automated tools trained to scan for known CVEs, misconfigurations, and potential attack vectors.
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By Astra
We're now leveraging AI to emulate hacker mindset, and identify scenarios of business logic vulnerabilities in applications. This new feature helps security engineers be more creative while finding vulnerabilities in applications. Let’s say you’re scanning a video streaming platform - Astra will generate test cases for verifying the possibility of account sharing, views manipulation, or payment fraud.
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By Astra
WireMock is an API developer productivity platform that provides developers with the tools and technologies needed to get the job done easily when they depend on APIs in the development process. It allows developers to be productive when they're consuming 3rd party and internal APIs that delay their development or when they prototype and deliver APIs.
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By Astra
Hi! In this video, we talk about evolution (or the lack of) of Pentest Reports/VAPT Reports in the last decade. We review a few key components of a VAPT/Pentest Report and also take a dive into new exciting feature 'Reports' by Astra Pentest.
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By Astra
Zenduty is a business critical application used by some of the top engineering teams across the world. When it comes to continuous Pentest, Zenduty trusts Astra’s platform. See what Ankur, (CTO & co-founder of Zenduty) has to say about their experience with Astra.
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By Astra
Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic penetration tests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 8300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.
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By Astra
Established in 2015 by David De Guz, Rebrandly provides a holistic link management platform to create substantial touchpoints between brands and their customers. Embracing the assets links to every company, Rebrandly’s link management services help brand, track, and share short, catchy URLs with customized domain names.
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By Astra
We've brought security to your workplace Astra users can now manage their security within Slack 🥳 You can stay on top with alerts about the target, manage vulnerabilities and collaborate with Astra's security experts - right within Slack
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By Astra
2022 was awesome for us at Astra Security 🚀 We hit new milestones, improved security & saved millions in potential loss for our users, launched tonnes of new features and had a lot of fun doing it all! A big "THANK YOU" to our team, customers & everyone who has supported us throughout 🙏
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By Astra
Directory Traversal might not be considered as a high-impact vulnerability but it can be a stepping stone to information leak and shell upload vulnerability. The lack of directory traversal security can allow an attacker to manipulate the file path to gain unauthorized access to different files in the directory. You need penetration testing to detect the directory traversal vulnerability. This video is a short explanation of how the file traversal vulnerability can be exploited, and how you can avoid it.
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