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API Security Trends 2026: Strategies, Risks & Solutions

In 2026, API security trends reveal a humbling reality. 99% of organizations have experienced at least one API security incident in the past year, with API-related breaches accounting for over 90% of all web-based attacks. Unlike yesterday’s perimeter-based threats, today’s API security challenges are fundamentally different. For every human identity, there exists ~ 82 machine identities, with >40% of those holding privilege/sensitive access within organisations.

Critical React2Shell RCE Hits React and Next.js (CVE-2025-55182 / CVE-2025-66478)

React2Shell is a severe remote, unauthenticated RCE vulnerability recently uncovered in React Server Components (RSC) and the Next.js App Router — tracked as CVE-2025-55182, with CVE-2025-66478 later merged as a duplicate — that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on servers by exploiting insecure Flight protocol deserialization (CWE-502), earning the flaw a maximum CVSS score of 10.0.