Security Info Watch

The Hidden Identity Threat Lurking Behind APIs and Automation

Machine identities now outnumber human users across most enterprises, yet many remain unmanaged, overprivileged, and ...
Bleeping Computer

Google: Malware abusing API is standard token theft, not an API issue

Google is downplaying reports of malware abusing an undocumented Google Chrome API to generate new authentication cookies when previously stolen ones have expired. In late November 2023, ...
The Hacker News

ToddyCat-Linked Umbrij Malware Abuses OAuth to Access Gmail via Google API

Kaspersky reports ToddyCat’s Umbrij abuses headless Chromium and OAuth flows to extract Gmail authorization codes, enabling ...
Dark Reading

When Good Tokens Go Bad

Tokens are an identity's crown jewel for digital authentication and authorization. Whether they are human or machine, and instantiated as API tokens, OAuth credentials, session tokens, or ephemeral ...
InfoWorld

Build an authentication handler for a minimal API in ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...