Wallarm-API-Threat-Stats-Report-2026.md

**API ThreatStats 2026 — Executive Summary:** APIs emerged as the dominant attack surface in 2025, with attackers favoring logic abuse, trust failures, and broken access control over traditional code bugs; API-related issues accounted for a large share of published vulnerabilities (11,053 of 67,058), 43% of CISA KEV entries analyzed, and 60 disclosed API-related breaches (including multi-million-record incidents and a $41M crypto theft), while AI-related vulnerabilities increasingly overlap with APIs and magnify risk.