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In today's security landscape, it's easy to get lost in a sea of acronyms. But one layer has become the undisputed foundation for modern application security: API security. Why? Because APIs are no longer just part of the application, they are the application. They are the connective tissue for microservices, third-party data, and the explosive new 'Agentic AI Action Layer' powered by protocols like MCP (Model Context Protocol). Securing the application is securing the APIs.

Have you ever watched AMC’s The Walking Dead? Before the walkers, before the chaos, there is a quieter moment that often goes unnoticed. The power is out. Roads are empty. Hospitals are running on borrowed time. The world has not fallen apart yet, but it is no longer working. That is what a day without ICS and OT would look like. Industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) are the systems that run the physical world.

The ARMO-Rapid7 partnership connects broad attack surface coverage with deep cloud and Kubernetes runtime security and visibility. By correlating exposures with real workload behavior, organizations can identify meaningful risk earlier, focus remediation where it matters most, and respond to active threats with precision, improving security outcomes while operating more efficiently in cloud-native environments.

Passwords were invented in the 1960s. Six decades later, we’re still using them to protect everything from email accounts to bank transfers to corporate networks. The problem isn’t just that they’re old technology, it’s that they were never designed for the world we live in now.

Microsoft was the most commonly impersonated brand in phishing attacks during the fourth quarter of 2025, according to researchers at Guardio. Microsoft was followed by Facebook, Roblox, McAfee, Steam, AT&T, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, and Coinbase. “Scammers ramped up brand impersonation attacks throughout Q4 2025, timing their campaigns around when people are busiest online, shopping for deals, renewing subscriptions, or looking for jobs,” Guardio says.

Researchers at RavenMail warn that a major phishing campaign targeted more than 3,000 organizations last month, primarily in the manufacturing industry. The phishing messages posed as legitimate business notifications, such as file access requests or voicemail alerts, and were designed to send users to credential-harvesting login pages. Notably, the campaign abused legitimate Google infrastructure and links to avoid being flagged by security tools.

As per Traceable’s 2025 State of API Security report, only 21% of the >1500 respondents surveyed across the globe showed confidence in detecting attacks at the API layer. Furthermore, only 13% were capable of preventing >50% of API attacks. This is when the API sprawl is still burgeoning. The challenge, thus, is no longer volume but maturity.

The recent disclosure of what security researchers are calling "the most severe AI-driven vulnerability uncovered to date" in ServiceNow's platform serves as a stark reminder: securing agentic AI isn't just about new AI-specific controls; it requires getting the fundamentals right first.

At JFrog, our mission has long been to power the future of software, and we believe that future is undeniably cloud-native. This is why we’ve architected our platform as a container-first, Kubernetes-native SaaS—built for performance at scale on the world’s leading cloud infrastructure. Our deep commitment to cloud excellence has reached a major milestone in our long-standing collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS): JFrog has achieved AWS Security Competency status.

A recent stack buffer overflow vulnerability in Redis, assigned CVE-2025-62507, was fixed in version 8.3.2. The issue was published with a high severity rating and assigned a CVSS v3 score of 8.8. According to the official advisory, “a user can run the XACKDEL command with multiple IDs and trigger a stack buffer overflow, which may potentially lead to remote code execution”.