Synthetic Trust Attacks: Modeling How Generative AI Manipulates Human Decisions in Social Engineering Fraud

Imagine receiving a video call from your CFO, surrounded by colleagues, asking you to urgently authorise a confidential transfer. You comply. Every person on that call was fake, and you just lost $25 million. This is not a hypothetical. It happened in Hong Kong in January 2024, and it is becoming...

Wikipedia’s AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse

The Internet is filled with people who insist on being right. In the past, at least they could be reasonably sure that they were arguing with other humans. Those days are gone, apparently. Wikipedia just had to ban an AI that was making edits on its own. Apparently, the AI took it personally. The...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Apache Http_Server

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Why we’re still not doing April Fools’ Day

People lost an estimated $442 billion to scams last year worldwide, according to the Global Anti-Scam Alliance. The scale of that is hard to picture, but people's day-to-day scam experience is easier to recognize: Our research found that 44% of people say they encounter mobile scams every single...

Asking AI for personal advice is a bad idea, Stanford study shows

Stanford computer scientists just proved what therapists already suspected: AI chatbots will agree with almost anything you say to keep you happy. The researchers caught these systems validating dangerous decisions just to maintain user engagement. That's a worrying development, especially given...

Wordfence Bug Bounty Program Monthly Report – February 2026

Last month in February 2026, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 1078 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...

CVE-2026-32243 Discourse: Stored XSS in discourse-ai shared conversations onebox

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. From versions 2026.1.0-latest to before 2026.1.3, 2026.2.0-latest to before 2026.2.2, and 2026.3.0-latest to before 2026.3.0, an attacker with the ability to create shared AI conversations could inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript via crafted...

Applying security fundamentals to AI: Practical advice for CISOs

What to know about the era of AI The first thing to know is that AI isn’t magic The best way to think about how to effectively use and secure a modern AI system is to imagine it like a very new, very junior person. It’s very smart and eager to help but can also be extremely unintelligent. Like a...

Applying security fundamentals to AI: Practical advice for CISOs

What to know about the era of AI The first thing to know is that AI isn’t magic The best way to think about how to effectively use and secure a modern AI system is to imagine it like a very new, very junior person. It’s very smart and eager to help but can also be extremely unintelligent. Like a...

The Real Risk of Vibecoding

This blog looks at how AI‑driven vibecoding speeds up software development while increasing security risk by outpacing traditional review and ownership. It explains why security needs to move earlier and be built into modern development workflows...

Architecting Secure AI Agents: Perspectives on System-Level Defenses against Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks

AI agents, predominantly powered by large language models LLMs, are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection, in which malicious instructions embedded in untrusted data can trigger dangerous agent actions. This position paper discusses our vision for system-level defenses against indirect prompt...

24/7 Payments for 24/7 Agents: The Case for Crypto in the Machine Economy

Crypto enables 24/7 payments for AI agents, replacing fiat limits with scalable machine-to-machine transactions and powering the emerging machine economy...

⚡ Weekly Recap: Telecom Sleeper Cells, LLM Jailbreaks, Apple Forces U.K. Age Checks and More

Some weeks are loud. This one was quieter but not in a good way. Long-running operations are finally hitting courtrooms, old attack methods are showing up in new places, and research that stopped being theoretical right around the time defenders stopped paying attention. There's a bit of everythi...

CISO Spotlight: Dimitris Georgiou on Building Security that Serves People First

Dimitris Georgiou has been a self-professed computer geek since the early 80s. At university, he studied the convergence of educational technology with computer science as part of his psychology MA – finding, to his disbelief, that systems were perilously insecure. Since then, he’s always worked ...

SakaDev 安全漏洞

SakaDev is an AI-driven software development assistant developed by Rahman Azhar. SakaDev has a security vulnerability, which stems from defects in the design of automatic terminal command execution. This vulnerability makes it susceptible to prompt injection attacks, potentially allowing arbitra...

Debt behind the AI Boom: A Large-Scale Empirical Study of AI-Generated Code in the Wild

AI coding assistants are now widely used in software development. Software developers increasingly integrate AI-generated code into their codebases to improve productivity. Prior studies have shown that AI-generated code may contain code quality issues under controlled settings. However, we still...

CVE-2026-33764

WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions up to and including 26.0, the AI plugin's save.json.php endpoint loads AI response objects using an attacker-controlled $REQUEST'id' parameter without validating that the AI response belongs to the specified video. An authenticated user wi...

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Iran-Linked Hackers Breach FBI Director’s Personal Email, Hit Stryker With Wiper Attack

Threat actors with ties to Iran successfully broke into the personal email account of Kash Patel, the director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and leaked a cache of photos and other documents to the internet. Handala Hack Team, which carried out the breach, said on its website th...

CVE-2026-30304

In its design for automatic terminal command execution, AI Code offers two options: Execute safe commands and execute all commands. The description for the former states that commands determined by the model to be safe will be automatically executed, whereas if the model judges a command to be...