InfoWorld

Public package repos expose thousands of API security tokens—and they’re active

JFrog’s new Xray Secrets Detection uncovered active access tokens in popular open-source software registries including Docker, npm, and PyPI. Here are our findings and takeaways. As part of the ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious PyPi package steals Discord auth tokens from devs

A malicious package named 'pycord-self' on the Python package index (PyPI) targets Discord developers to steal authentication tokens and plant a backdoor for remote control over the system. The ...
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, ...
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 ...