AI-Powered Social Engineering: Ancillary Tools and Techniques

Social engineering is advancing fast, at the speed of generative AI. This is offering bad actors multiple new tools and techniques for researching, scoping, and exploiting organizations. In a recent communication, the FBI pointed out: 'As technology continues to evolve, so do cybercriminals'...

Qualys TotalAppSec Delivers AI-powered Unified Application Risk Management for Modern Web Apps and APIs

" If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it." - This adage rings truer than ever in the world of cybersecurity. Today, the modern attack surface has exploded, fueled by APIs that now drive 83% of all web traffic, powering critical integrations, microservices, and digital experiences. Security...

PT-2025-1733

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Directorist: AI-Powered WordPress Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 8.0.12 Description The issue allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, including...

CVE-2024-12041: Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The Directorist: AI-Powered WordPress Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 8.0.12 via the /wp-json/directorist/v1/users/ endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attacker...

PT-2025-1771

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordLift – AI powered SEO – Schema plugin for WordPress versions prior to 3.54.0 Description The issue arises from a missing capability check on the 'wl config plugin' AJAX action, allowing unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's...

CVE-2024-12176: Missing Authorization

The WordLift – AI powered SEO – Schema plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the 'wlconfigplugin' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.54.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings...

Resecurity introduces Government Security Operations Center (GSOC) at NATO Edge 2024

Resecurity unveils AI-powered GSOC at NATO Edge 2024, integrating VR for advanced cybersecurity. Tailored for MSSPs, it enhances…...

CVE-2024-11275: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

The WP Timetics- AI-powered Appointment Booking Calendar and Online Scheduling Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the /wp-json/timetics/v1/customers/ REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.27. This makes...

Top Tool Capabilities to Prevent AI-Powered Attacks

Recent advances in AI technologies have granted organizations and individuals alike unprecedented productivity, efficiency, and operational benefits. AI is, without question, the single most exciting emerging technology in the world. However, it also brings enormous risks. While the dystopian,...

Extending Spring Data Repositories Just Got Easier

Since its inception, Spring Data Repositories have been designed for extension, whether you want to customize a single query method or provide a completely new base implementation. The 2024.1 release enhances your ability to extend a repository with custom functionality making it easier than ever...

Google's AI-Powered OSS-Fuzz Tool Finds 26 Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Projects

Google has revealed that its AI-powered fuzzing tool, OSS-Fuzz, has been used to help identify 26 vulnerabilities in various open-source code repositories, including a medium-severity flaw in the OpenSSL cryptographic library. "These particular vulnerabilities represent a milestone for automated...

Сrimeware and financial cyberthreats in 2025

Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team constantly monitors known and emerging cyberthreats directed at the financial industry, with banks and fintech companies being the most targeted. We also closely follow threats that aim to infiltrate a wider range of industries, namely ransomware...

Introducing the next generation of AI-powered remediation: Choose your own remediation strategy

The new AI-powered remediation 2.0 combines the power of GenAI with the Wiz Research Team’s expertise in identifying cloud-native attack paths...

CVE-2024-9263: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

The WP Timetics- AI-powered Appointment Booking Calendar and Online Scheduling Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation via Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.25 via the save due to missing validation on a user...

Researchers Uncover Vulnerabilities in AI-Powered Azure Health Bot Service

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two security flaws in Microsoft's Azure Health Bot Service that, if exploited, could permit a malicious actor to achieve lateral movement within customer environments and access sensitive patient data. The critical issues, now patched by Microsoft, could...

AI-Powered Deepfake Tools Becoming More Accessible Than Ever

Trend Micro research uncovers new cybercrime tools posing increased threats to security, highlighting the rapid evolution of AI-powered hacking services and their potential for mass exploitation...

This AI-Powered Cybercrime Service Bundles Phishing Kits with Malicious Android Apps

A Spanish-speaking cybercrime group named GXC Team has been observed bundling phishing kits with malicious Android applications, taking malware-as-a-service MaaS offerings to the next level. Singaporean cybersecurity company Group-IB, which has been tracking the e-crime actor since January 2023,...

AI device Rabbit r1 logged user interactions without an option to erase them before selling

Rabbit, the manufacturer of the Artificial Intelligence AI assistant r1 has issued a security advisory telling users its found a potential security risk. If a user loses or sells their device, a person in possession of the r1 could potentially jailbreak the device and gain access to files that...

U.S. Seizes Domains Used by AI-Powered Russian Bot Farm for Disinformation

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ said it seized two internet domains and searched nearly 1,000 social media accounts that Russian threat actors allegedly used to covertly spread pro-Kremlin disinformation in the country and abroad on a large scale. "The social media bot farm used elements of AI...

Google Introduces Project Naptime for AI-Powered Vulnerability Research

Google has developed a new framework called Project Naptime that it says enables a large language model LLM to carry out vulnerability research with an aim to improve automated discovery approaches. "The Naptime architecture is centered around the interaction between an AI agent and a target...