Why Rate Limiting Alone Won't Stop OTP Abuse — A Real Incident Breakdown
The Attack That Looked Like Normal Traffic
On a perfectly normal Tuesday morning, while the team was getting into their usual flow, we quietly noticed that our SendGrid email delivery was behaving str
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Apalowo Abdulwasiu
Software Engineer | Technical Writer
Great write-up mate. "Treat abuse protection for public facing endpoints as a first-class requirement not an afterthought" :+1
I do wonder, what was the attacker's endgoal? Cost the company its reputation?