Akamai Research Finds 29% of Web Attacks Target APIs

Akamai’s State of the Internet report for 2023 highlights rising API-focused attacks—29% of web attacks targeted APIs last year—with commerce (44%) and business services (~32%) most affected. The report calls out business-logic abuse and authenticated data scraping as critical runtime risks, lists common vulnerabilities exploited against APIs (LFI, SQLi, XSS), and urges organizations to embed API security and compliance controls to mitigate emerging threats.