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API Layer Attacks Report

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Real-World BOLA Empirical Analysis

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APIsec Bolt Code Discovery

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Beyond the $175K Bankrbot Hack

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The Ghost in the Shopping Cart

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APIsec Bolt Browser Extension

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MCP Audit v1.0

RESEARCH

Prompt In, Shell Out

THREAT_INTEL

API Layer Attacks Report

RESEARCH

Real-World BOLA Empirical Analysis

TOOL

APIsec Bolt Code Discovery

NEW

Beyond the $175K Bankrbot Hack

RESEARCH

The Ghost in the Shopping Cart

TOOL

APIsec Bolt Browser Extension

TOOL

MCP Audit v1.0

RESEARCH

Prompt In, Shell Out

THREAT_INTEL

API Layer Attacks Report

RESEARCH

Real-World BOLA Empirical Analysis

TOOL

APIsec Bolt Code Discovery

NEW

Beyond the $175K Bankrbot Hack

RESEARCH

The Ghost in the Shopping Cart

TOOL

APIsec Bolt Browser Extension

TOOL

MCP Audit v1.0

RESEARCH

Prompt In, Shell Out

THREAT_INTEL

API Layer Attacks Report

RESEARCH

Real-World BOLA Empirical Analysis

TOOL

APIsec Bolt Code Discovery

NEW

Beyond the $175K Bankrbot Hack

RESEARCH

The Ghost in the Shopping Cart

TOOL

APIsec Bolt Browser Extension

TOOL

MCP Audit v1.0

RESEARCH

Prompt In, Shell Out

RESEARCH

Latest Publications

Original analysis, technical findings, and emerging risk studies.

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Light It Up: Agentic Guardrail Bypass to Code Execution in FastLED's MCP Server (CVE-2026-78812)

Oct 2026

Light It Up: Agentic Guardrail Bypass to Code Execution in FastLED's MCP Server (CVE-2026-78812)

FastLED's repository ships an MCP server with a general-purpose command runner and no boundary of its own. The one guardrail is a text filter in another layer, and a hex-encoded Python one-liner with no spaces slips past both the filter and the handler's whitespace split, straight to code execution as the developer.

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THE STATE OF APPLICATION SECURITY

The numbers don't lie.

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CVEs in 2025

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Increase from 2023

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AI code fails benchmarks

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Ship known vulns

Sources: CVE Data Review 2025 • Veracode • Black Duck DevSecOps Report • Checkmarx

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APIsec Bolt Browser Extension

Discover your full API attack surface directly from your browser: no proxies, agents, or setup required. As you interact with any web application, Bolt captures live API traffic, filters out noise, and builds a real-time inventory of endpoints and parameters. Export clean OpenAPI specs in one click and send APIs straight to APIsec.ai for automated security testing.

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APIsec Bolt Code Discovery

Find every API endpoint hiding in your source code before it ships. This GitHub Action scans your repository at commit or on a schedule, automatically detects frameworks (Spring Boot, FastAPI, Flask, ASP.NET Core, and more), generates an OpenAPI 3.0 specification from your code, and raises a pull request with the results. Shift API discovery left and catch undocumented and shadow endpoints in the CI/CD pipeline, not in production.

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MCP audit

See what your AI agents can actually access before attackers do. Scan Model Context Protocol configurations for exposed secrets, shadow APIs, and undeclared AI models, then generate AI-BOMs for compliance and governance. MCP Audit maps your agent trust boundaries so you can identify misconfigurations and over-permissioned connections across your AI infrastructure.

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AI Surface

Find and govern the AI surfaces in your application code at PR time. AI Surface is a static source-code analyzer that detects LLM SDK call sites across 12 providers, agent frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, and CrewAI, MCP servers, model gateways, and AI infrastructure — flagging 13 risk indicators including financial actions, destructive operations, broad permissions, and exposed provider API keys. Runs 100% locally with no network calls or telemetry, ships as a GitHub Action with sticky PR diff comments, and supports baseline mode to track only newly introduced AI surfaces. Make your AI attack surface visible to the security team before attackers find it.

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APIsec Skills

Make your AI coding assistant write secure APIs by default. Five always-on rules and six on-demand skills put the OWASP API Security Top 10 inside Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI and Windsurf. There is nothing to configure, and nothing leaves your machine.