In the world of cybersecurity, everyone loves to fear the dark web, but most orgs completely miss the fact that their biggest vulnerability is already live and crawling with bugs: their own public-facing web apps. The reality is, attackers rarely need to dip into shady markets when your login endpoints, broken access controls, and weak API auth are doing all the heavy lifting. These web apps — SaaS dashboards, e-commerce portals, and client-side rich interfaces — are prime real estate for attackers looking for unauthenticated access, session hijacking, IDORs, or token mismanagement. They often expose internal logic via verbose responses, error messages, and improperly scoped permissions. Even worse, automated tools running in the wild continuously probe for default admin panels, forgotten staging environments, and exposed .git directories. If your team isn’t running internal bug bounty-style red team audits on your app weekly, you’re basically hoping luck will keep you off the radar. But hope isn’t a defense strategy. Harden your frontend, treat your APIs like classified endpoints, and assume anything exposed to the public internet will eventually be probed by someone smarter than your current WAF. The next breach won’t come from some dark alley marketplace — it’ll come straight through your frontend.