---
id: 876
title: "Fight the Fear of Shadow and Zombie APIs"
source_domain: bugcrowd.com
source_url: "https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/fight-the-fear-of-shadow-and-zombie-apis/"
published_at: "2022-04-27 00:00"
tags: ["attack-surface", "api-security", "bugcrowd", "gartner", "shadow-api", "threat-trends"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/876"
lang: en
---

# Fight the Fear of Shadow and Zombie APIs

## Summary

Gartner predicts most enterprise APIs will remain unmanaged by 2025. Bugcrowd explains how shadow and zombie APIs expand the attack surface and why API attacks rose 348% in early 2021.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bugcrowd.com
- **Published:** 2022-04-27 00:00
- **Original:** https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/fight-the-fear-of-shadow-and-zombie-apis/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/876