Hacking APIs
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Labs
- Web Service & API Attacks [Paid]
- OWASP API Security Top 10 - 1 [Paid]
Prerequisite reading
- (Book) Hacking APIs: Breaking Web Application Programming Interfaces
- (Book) Black Hat GraphQL: Attacking Next Generation APIs
- SCORCHED EARTH: HACKING BANKS AND CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGES THROUGH THEIR APIS
- OWASP API Security Top 10: https://owasp.org/www-project-api-security | https://apisecurity.io/encyclopedia/content/owasp-api-security-top-10-cheat-sheet-a4.pdf
- GraphQL Injection
Tools
- https://github.com/arainho/awesome-api-security
- KiteRunner, API content discovery. https://github.com/assetnote/kiterunner
- https://github.com/microsoft/restler-fuzzer
- https://github.com/dsopas/MindAPI
- Decode JSON Web Tokens (Online): https://jwt.io
- JWT - JSON Web Token
Intercepting proxies
These let you view, edit, and replay requests, and are extremely useful for finding vulnerabilities in web, mobile and API applications.