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API Attacks Surge 3000%: Why Cybersecurity Needs to Evolve in 2025

ID: a5733053-f300-506e-a6cb-e5b95882c050

STIX ID: report--a5733053-f300-506e-a6cb-e5b95882c050

Feed Name: The Cyber Express

Threat Score
60/100

Date Published: 2024-12-09

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Samiksha Jain

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The report outlines a sharp rise in API attacks and bot-driven DDoS activity—reporting hundreds of millions of incidents in a single quarter—emphasizing disproportionate impacts on SMBs and sectors such as banking, healthcare, retail, and energy; it highlights specific vulnerabilities added to CISA's KEV (e.g., Metabase GeoJSON API, Versa Director), widespread unpatched high-severity flaws, and recommends proactive defenses like WAAP to mitigate growing API and bot threats.

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