api-security

Covers the practices that keep APIs from becoming an attacker's easiest entry point: authentication and authorization design, key and token management, rate limiting, and detecting abuse before it drains your budget. Expect practitioner accounts of real incidents, forensic breakdowns of compromised credentials, and concrete defenses for LLM and traditional APIs alike. The focus is on how attackers actually exploit exposed keys and what stops them.

Robotic claw lifting a glowing API key from tangled cables and packages, with an abandoned crypto mining rig behind.

api-security, llm-security, credential-theft, supply-chain-security, api-key-management

Eight Tokens at Midnight: Why Stolen API Keys Are the New Crypto Mining

A low-balance email revealed a compromised LLM API key being silently drained by automated bots. The forensic trail shows how stolen API credentials have replaced crypto mining as the attacker's prize, and what you can do to stop it.