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By Sanskriti Jain
You shipped an app in a weekend. The AI wrote the login, the dashboard, and the database layer, and everything works, but it’s far from safe. With 0 logins, an attacker can forge admin invitations, alter audit logs, and change other users’ passwords. The guy is just swimming freestyle through your entire app stack. This is just one of the 137 vulnerabilities we found in vibe-coding across the top 4 platforms.
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By Ephrim Holyson
We handed four vibe-coding tools (Emergent, Replit, Lovable, Base44) the same prompt for a FastAPI user-management microservice. The spec was explicit: JWT auth, parameterized queries, rate limiting, four-tier role model with per-endpoint scope. Each tool shipped a build, and our flagship autonomous pentest surfaced 137 confirmed vulnerabilities across all four.
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By Ephrim Holyson
Vibe-coding platforms let you go from prompt to a deployed app in a single session, a pace that outpaces the review cycles most teams built for slower releases. With Lovable nearing 8 million users by late 2025, and Replit past 50 million by April 2026, we wanted to answer a sharper question than “is vibe coding safe?” Does the platform generating the code change the outcome, and does one security prompt give you the same security everywhere?
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By Sanskriti Jain
Binance never chose to be on the front line of a geopolitical conflict, yet if blockchain-intelligence firms are right, that is where it ended up, and its balance sheet absorbed the first loss. Binance’s initial investigation indicates that a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop may have given an attacker access to a service container and the ability to submit unauthorised withdrawals.
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By Ephrim Holyson
October 2026 has been an unusually loud month for critical disclosures across the ecosystem. Along with PHP2Shell, GitLab also joined the party and shipped three critical RCEs in the same month: CVE-2026-90970 (CVSS 9.9) in the self-hosted AI Gateway on October 2, then CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS 10.0) on October 12, and CVE-2026-110264 (CVSS 10.0) on October 21. The last two are integer overflow bugs in the exact same regex compiler, shipped nine days apart.
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By Ananda Krishna
Seeing your Shopify app under review, or receiving an urgent Shopify app suspended notice from Partner Governance, immediately freezes new merchant installs. When merchants try to install your application and hit the this app is under review Shopify gate.
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By Sanskriti Jain
Shopify App Store requirements have a lot to say about app security, and almost none of it says “get a pentest.” Dig through the App Store review rules, the protected customer data requirements, the Built for Shopify criteria, and the Certified Technology Partner list, and you’ll find only one program that mentions penetration testing. Others are just expected to be secure, which is fair, except there is no clear definition of the word or process for proving the same.
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By Keshav Malik
We gave four AI coding tools the same prompt and asked each one to build the same application. Emergent, Replit, Lovable, and Base44 all shipped something that ran, and none of them knew a pentest was coming. We then pointed our autonomous pentest agents at all four builds, and 137 confirmed vulnerabilities came back. One finding turned up in every app, which is a CORS misconfiguration.
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By Keshav Malik
We built an application on Replit from a single prompt, gave it no special instructions about security, and then pentested it the way an attacker would. Replit had no advance notice that any of this was happening, and there is no vendor relationship between us. The app worked, which is worth saying first, because nothing about the build looked wrong from the outside.
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By Priya
CISOs are hired for their technical depth and then judged on everything else: can they get a budget approved? Can they calm an executive team at 2 a.m. while the incident is still unfolding? Can they convince a product lead to delay a launch without making an enemy? Almost no one is trained for this second job, and yet, it’s the one that decides whether a security program succeeds. This article will highlight ten crucial Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) skills.
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By Astra Security
Before you hire a pentest company, ask who's actually testing your app. Who exactly will test my app? And what's their background? This is 1 of 6 questions to ask any pentest vendor. Watch the rest of the series and the full video on our channel.
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By Astra Security
We are sharing six things to check before you sign: who's actually testing, proof of exploit, cloud and API coverage, retesting, continuous testing, and report quality. Backed by 6.8M findings from the State of Pentesting 2026 report. Chapters Astra Security is a penetration testing company that combines autonomous and human-validated pentesting for web apps, APIs, cloud and AI applications.
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By Astra Security
Most companies pentest their app once a year. Hackers look for new backdoors every single day. Astra Autonomous Pentesting closes that gap with AI security agents that test your web app continuously, 24/7. Traditional penetration testing gives you a giant report full of jargon that sits on a shelf. Astra works like a friendly hacker that never sleeps. When it finds a security weakness, it doesn't just send a scary alert. It explains the exact problem, with the attack story and proof, so clearly that AI coding tools can fix, test and repair the vulnerability the same day.
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By Astra Security
Astra vs. Other Tool: Who Finds More Real Vulnerabilities? How does Astra Autonomous Pentesting compare with the other tool when it comes to finding real-world vulnerabilities? In this independent benchmark, Astra was tested against the other tool to evaluate vulnerability coverage, depth, and true-positive findings. The results: 27 true-positive vulnerabilities identified 3.9× more vulnerability coverage 11 distinct vulnerability classes discovered Deep testing across business logic and application behaviour.
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By Astra Security
Web application penetration testing means simulating real-world attacks on your web application; probing everything from input fields, APIs and auth flows to server configs and business logic to find security flaws before attackers do. In this video, you’ll learn.
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By Astra Security
Is Vibe Coding Actually Secure? We Tested 4 AI App Builders to Find Out Vibe coding promises no developers, no tech background, and no waiting weeks for a build, just describe your idea and watch an AI turn it into a working app. But how secure are the apps it builds? In this video, Viranchi (Product Marketer at Astra Security) breaks down what we found after testing apps built on popular AI app builders — Lovable, Replit, Base44, and Emergent. The results: 4 out of 4 apps tested had high or severe vulnerabilities.
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By Astra Security
One team. One engagement. One PDF three weeks later. Already outdated. That was the old model. This video explains the new one. Autonomous pentesting runs continuously, finds attack chains, validates every finding, and delivers fixes to your developer's IDE the same day. No backlog. No waiting. No guessing. 60 seconds. Watch it.
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