Detecting Cybersecurity Threats by Integrating Explainable AI with SHAP Interpretability and Strategic Data Sampling

The critical need for transparent and trustworthy machine learning in cybersecurity operations drives the development of this integrated Explainable AI XAI framework. Our methodology addresses three fundamental challenges in deploying AI for threat detection: handling massive datasets through...

AI-Assisted Threat Actor Compromises 600+ FortiGate Devices in 55 Countries

A Russian-speaking, financially motivated threat actor has been observed taking advantage of commercial generative artificial intelligence AI services to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices located in 55 countries. That's according to new findings from Amazon Threat Intelligence, which said it...

Redteam-Automation

🔴 AI-Driven Red Team Simulation Framework A production-ready...

Wordfence Bug Bounty Program Monthly Report – January 2026

Last month in January 2026, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 897 vulnerability submissions from our growing community of security researchers working to improve the overall security posture of the WordPress ecosystem. These submissions are reviewed, triaged, and processed by the Wordfenc...

Can AI Lower the Barrier to Cybersecurity? A Human-Centered Mixed-Methods Study of Novice CTF Learning

Capture-the-Flag CTF competitions serve as gateways into offensive cybersecurity, yet they often present steep barriers for novices due to complex toolchains and opaque workflows. Recently, agentic AI frameworks for cybersecurity promise to lower these barriers by automating and coordinating...

MVP Development in the Age of AI: How Startups Can Build Smarter, Faster and Leaner

How AI is reshaping MVP development, helping startups build faster, validate smarter, avoid overbuilding, manage tech debt, and embed security early...

Using AI to defeat AI

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Generative AI and agentic AI are here to stay. Although I believe that the advantages that AI brings to bad guys may be overstated, these new technologies allow threat actors to conduct attacks at a faster rate than before. One...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (February 9, 2026 to February 15, 2026)

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CVE-2026-23620

GFI MailEssentials AI versions prior to 22.4 contain an arbitrary file existence enumeration vulnerability in the ListServer.IsDBExist web method exposed at /MailEssentials/pages/MailSecurity/ListServer.aspx/IsDBExist. An authenticated user can supply an unrestricted filesystem path via the JSON...

CVE-2026-23606

GFI MailEssentials AI versions prior to 22.4 contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Advanced Content Filtering rule creation workflow. An authenticated user can supply HTML/JavaScript in the ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$pv1$txtRuleName parameter to...

CVE-2026-23604

GFI MailEssentials AI versions prior to 22.4 contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Keyword Filtering rule creation workflow. An authenticated user can supply HTML/JavaScript in the ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$pv1$TXBRuleName parameter to...

CVE-2026-23606

GFI MailEssentials AI versions prior to 22.4 contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Advanced Content Filtering rule creation workflow. An authenticated user can supply HTML/JavaScript in the ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$pv1$txtRuleName parameter to...

Adapt, Protect, and Extend: How Partners Can Help Orgs Unlock ROI from AI

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Malicious AI

Interesting: Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind cas...

From Exposure to Exploitation: How AI Collapses Your Response Window

We’ve all seen this before: a developer deploys a new cloud workload and grants overly broad permissions just to keep the sprint moving. An engineer generates a "temporary" API key for testing and forgets to revoke it. In the past, these were minor operational risks, debts you’d eventually pay do...

Infostealer Found Stealing OpenClaw AI Identity and Memory Files

Researchers at Hudson Rock have identified a live infection where an infostealer exfiltrated a victim’s OpenClaw configuration. The discovery highlights a shift in malware behaviour toward harvesting personal AI identity files...

CVE-2026-25402 WordPress Knowledge Base for Documentation, FAQs with AI Assistance plugin <= 16.011.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

Missing Authorization vulnerability in echoplugins Knowledge Base for Documentation, FAQs with AI Assistance echo-knowledge-base allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Knowledge Base for Documentation, FAQs with AI Assistance: from n/a through =...

CVE-2026-25402

CVE-2026-25402 affects the WordPress plugin “Knowledge Base for Documentation, FAQs with AI Assistance” (echo-knowledge-base) up to version 16.011.0. Root cause is Missing Authorization / broken access control allowing exploitation due to incorrectly configured access levels. Impact is limited to...

CVE-2026-25338

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Ays Pro AI ChatBot with ChatGPT and Content Generator by AYS ays-chatgpt-assistant allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects AI ChatBot with ChatGPT and Content Generator by AYS: from n/a through = 2.7.4...

SigInt-Cirtanus 1.0

SigInt-Cirtanus is a Python-based, multi-threaded threat intelligence automation framework designed for defensive cybersecurity operations. It retrieves and processes real-time threat feeds e.g., from URLhaus, validates indicators, and dynamically generates detection artifacts for integration wit...