Mining the YARA Ecosystem: From Ad-Hoc Sharing to Data-Driven Threat Intelligence

YARA has established itself as the de facto standard for "Detection as Code," enabling analysts and DevSecOps practitioners to define signatures for malware identification across the software supply chain. Despite its pervasive use, the open-source YARA ecosystem remains characterized by ad-hoc...

Seeing AI Clearly: Building Visibility Across Modern AI Applications

AI applications span models, agents, and cloud environments in ways traditional security tools weren’t designed to understand. Here’s why visibility breaks — and how a new, implementation-agnostic approach helps teams safely adopt AI...

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...

Why CEOs’ AI Hype Really Isn’t Landing with Employees

Read about the disconnect between CEO enthusiasm for AI and employee perception of its value, and learn how to build communication that moves adoption forward...

What Hackers Talk about When They Talk about AI: Early-Stage Diffusion of a Cybercrime Innovation

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence AI is raising concerns about its potential to transform cybercrime. Beyond empowering novice offenders, AI stands to intensify the scale and sophistication of attacks by seasoned cybercriminals. This paper examines the evolving relationship between...

State of Passkey Authentication in the Wild: A Census of the Top 100K Sites

Passkeys -- discoverable WebAuthn credentials synchronised across devices are widely promoted as the future of passwordless authentication. Built on the FIDO2 standard, they eliminate shared secrets and resist phishing while offering usability through platform credential managers. Since their...

The CTEM Divide: Why 84% of Security Programs Are Falling Behind

A new 2026 market intelligence study of 128 enterprise security decision-makers available here reveals a stark divide forming between organizations – one that has nothing to do with budget size or industry and everything to do with a single framework decision. Organizations implementing Continuou...

80% of Fortune 500 use active AI Agents: Observability, governance, and security shape the new frontier

Today, Microsoft is releasing the new Cyber Pulse report to provide leaders with straightforward, practical insights and guidance on new cybersecurity risks. One of today’s most pressing concerns is the governance of AI and autonomous agents. AI agents are scaling faster than some companies can s...

New Microsoft Data Security Index report explores secure AI adoption to protect sensitive data

Generative AI and agentic AI are redefining how organizations innovate and operate, unlocking new levels of productivity, creativity and collaboration across industry teams. From accelerating content creation to streamlining workflows, AI offers transformative benefits that empower organizations ...

This Week in Spring - January 26th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I cannot believe we're nearly at the end of the month! Time sure flies. Spring AI 2.0.0-M2 is available now Spring Modulith 2.1 M1, 2.0.2, and 1.4.7 released In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast ,...

CVE-2025-9290

An authentication weakness was identified in Omada Controllers, Gateways and Access Points, controller-device adoption due to improper handling of random values. Exploitation requires advanced network positioning and allows an attacker to intercept adoption traffic and forge valid authentication...

CVE-2025-9290

An authentication weakness was identified in Omada Controllers, Gateways and Access Points, controller-device adoption due to improper handling of random values. Exploitation requires advanced network positioning and allows an attacker to intercept adoption traffic and forge valid authentication...

CVE-2025-9290

CVE-2025-9290 describes an authentication weakness in Omada Controllers, Gateways, and Access Points related to improper handling of random values during controller-device adoption. The vulnerability could allow an attacker with adjacent network access to intercept adoption traffic and forge vali...

CVE-2025-9290 Authentication Weakness on Omada Controllers, Gateways and Access Points

An authentication weakness was identified in Omada Controllers, Gateways and Access Points, controller-device adoption due to improper handling of random values. Exploitation requires advanced network positioning and allows an attacker to intercept adoption traffic and forge valid authentication...

CVE-2025-9290

An authentication weakness was identified in Omada Controllers, Gateways and Access Points, controller-device adoption due to improper handling of random values. Exploitation requires advanced network positioning and allows an attacker to intercept adoption traffic and forge valid authentication...

CVE-2025-9290 Authentication Weakness on Omada Controllers, Gateways and Access Points

An authentication weakness was identified in Omada Controllers, Gateways and Access Points, controller-device adoption due to improper handling of random values. Exploitation requires advanced network positioning and allows an attacker to intercept adoption traffic and forge valid authentication...

PT-2026-4304

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Omada Controllers, Gateways and Access Points affected versions not specified Description An authentication weakness exists in Omada Controllers, Gateways, and Access Points related to controller-device adoption. This is due to improper handli...

Cloud Agent in 2025: A Year of Scale, Security, and Smarter Visibility

As we move into 2026, 2025 stands out as a defining year for the Qualys Cloud Agent. In 2025, Cloud Agent delivered deeper visibility into running systems and applications , stronger security controls , expanded support across operating systems and architectures , and meaningful platform...

CVE-2026-21635

An Improper Access Control could allow a malicious actor in Wi-Fi range to the EV Station Lite v1.5.2 and earlier to use WiFi AutoLink feature on a device that was only adopted via Ethernet...

CVE-2026-21635

An Improper Access Control could allow a malicious actor in Wi-Fi range to the EV Station Lite v1.5.2 and earlier to use WiFi AutoLink feature on a device that was only adopted via Ethernet...