API attack traffic growing at triple the rate of regular API traffic

clock • 2 min read

Salt Security customers experience about 12.2 million attack calls per month

The amount of attack traffic targeting APIs is growing more than three times faster than the rate of regular API traffic, a new report has found. Salt Security's State of API Security Report is ...

To continue reading this article...

Join Computing

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the technology industry
  • Receive important and breaking news in our daily newsletter
  • Be the first to hear about our events and awards programmes
  • Join live member only interviews with IT leaders at the ‘IT Lounge’; your chance to ask your burning tech questions and have them answered
  • Access to the Computing Delta hub providing market intelligence and research
  • Receive our members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from senior IT Leaders

Join now

 

Already a Computing member?

Login

You may also like
Google abandons plan to phase out third-party cookies

Privacy

In a bid to please everyone, Google has done the opposite

clock 23 July 2024 • 3 min read
Nearly 7% of all internet traffic is malicious, says Cloudflare

Threats and Risks

Volume and scale of DDoS attacks ‘vast’

clock 17 July 2024 • 2 min read
Open source curl tool addresses high-severity vulnerability

Threats and Risks

Curl is used extensively across the IT landscape

clock 10 October 2023 • 3 min read
Most read
01

Ransomware targets London branch of China's ICBC

13 September 2024 • 2 min read
02

Teen arrested over TfL cyberattack

13 September 2024 • 3 min read
03

Sign up to our newsletter

The best news, stories, features and photos from the day in one perfectly formed email.

More on Threats and Risks

China refuses to sign agreement on AI control of nuclear weapons

China refuses to sign agreement on AI control of nuclear weapons

Global call to maintain human involvement in all nuclear related decisions

clock 12 September 2024 • 3 min read
Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Four zero day bugs squashed

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Four zero day bugs squashed

In a total of 79 vulnerabilities patched in September

John Leonard
clock 11 September 2024 • 2 min read
UK and allies reveal methodology of Russian GRU threat actor Unit 29155

UK and allies reveal methodology of Russian GRU threat actor Unit 29155

Group has targeted organisations including governments and critical infrastructure providers for espionage purposes

John Leonard
clock 06 September 2024 • 2 min read