How Mexico's ‘CJNG’ Drug Cartel Embraced AI, Drones, and Social Media

Drug kingpin Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes may be dead, but the Jalisco cartel he ran for years will likely outlive him—thanks, in part, to the criminal group’s embrace of technology...

Parse Dashboard 安全漏洞

Parse Dashboard is an dashboard tool open source by the Parse Platform. Versions of Parse Dashboard from 7.3.0-alpha.42 to 9.0.0-alpha.7 have security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stem from the lack of enforcement of authorization for the AI Agent API endpoints, which may allow...

(Pwn2Own) Ubiquiti Networks AI Pro Cleartext Transmission Information Disclosure Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Ubiquiti Networks AI Pro. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within device authentication. The issue results from continuing to...

Is AI Good for Democracy?

Politicians fixate on the global race for technological supremacy between US and China. They debate geopolitical implications of chip exports, latest model releases from each country, and military applications of AI. Someday, they believe, we might see advancements in AI tip the scales in a...

EUVD-2026-7452

New API is a large language mode LLM gateway and artificial intelligence AI asset management system. Prior to version 0.10.8-alpha.9, a potential unsafe operation occurs in component MarkdownRenderer.jsx, allowing for Cross-Site ScriptingXSS when the model outputs items containing tag. Version...

A Systematic Review of Algorithmic Red Teaming Methodologies for Assurance and Security of AI Applications

Cybersecurity threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, making traditional defense mechanisms and manual red teaming approaches insufficient for modern organizations. While red teaming has long been recognized as an effective method to identify vulnerabilities by simulating real-world...

Data Breaches in 2026: What’s old, what’s new?

Data breaches in 2026 explained, new cyber threats, AI driven attacks, common breach causes, and practical security strategies for individuals and businesses...

Alert Fatigue Isn’t Going Away. Here’s How Modern SOCs Are Fighting Back

Security teams have been talking about alert fatigue for years. And yet, for many SOCs, the problem isn’t getting better. It’s getting worse. As environments expand across cloud, SaaS, identity, and legacy systems, analysts are flooded with signals that all demand attention but rarely arrive with...

CVE-2026-2970

The CVE-2026-2970 vulnerability affects datapizza-labs datapizza-ai cache code: RedisCache in datapizza-ai-cache/redis/datapizza/cache/redis/cache.py. Root cause is deserialization of untrusted data via pickle.loads(), leading to arbitrary code execution/data manipulation on the local network. Ex...

Malicious OpenClaw Skills Used to Distribute Atomic MacOS Stealer

Malicious OpenClaw skills trick AI agents and users into installing a new AMOS variant that steals extensive data at scale...

Understanding Human-AI Collaboration in Cybersecurity Competitions

Capture-the-Flag CTF competitions are increasingly becoming a testbed for evaluating AI capabilities at solving security tasks, due to the controlled environments and objective success criteria. Existing evaluations have focused on how successful AI is at solving CTF challenges in isolation from...

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...

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...

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-2026-23606

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...