Human-AI Collaborative Bot Detection in MMORPGs

In Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games MMORPGs, auto-leveling bots exploit automated programs to level up characters at scale, undermining gameplay balance and fairness. Detecting such bots is challenging, not only because they mimic human behavior, but also because punitive actions...

PT-2025-34988

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection plugin for WordPress versions through 11.58 Description: The plugin is susceptible to unauthorized data access due to an inadequate capability check within the...

WordPress plugin Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection 安全漏洞

WordPress and the WordPress plugin are products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed in the PHP language. The platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. WordPress plugin Block Bad Bots and Stop Bad Bo...

ShadowSilk Hits 35 Organizations in Central Asia and APAC Using Telegram Bots

A threat activity cluster known as ShadowSilk has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government entities within Central Asia and Asia-Pacific APAC. According to Group-IB, nearly three dozen victims have been identified, with the intrusions mainly geared towards data exfiltration...

Malicious code in discord-bots-api (npm)

The package discord-bots-api was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-18470 Malicious code in discord-bots-api (npm)

The package discord-bots-api was found to contain malicious code...

New trends in phishing and scams: how AI and social media are changing the game

Introduction Phishing and scams are dynamic types of online fraud that primarily target individuals, with cybercriminals constantly adapting their tactics to deceive people. Scammers invent new methods and improve old ones, adjusting them to fit current news, trends, and major world events:...

Publishers: How to Block AI Bots and Reclaim Control of Your Content

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CVE-2025-48166

Missing Authorization vulnerability in sminozzi Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots antibots allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots: from n/a through = 1.48...

CVE-2025-48166

Missing Authorization vulnerability in sminozzi Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots antibots allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots: from n/a through = 1.48...

CVE-2025-48166

CVE-2025-48166 documents a Missing Authorization (Broken Access Control) in the WordPress plugin Stop and Block bots – Anti bots , affecting versions up to 1.48. The root cause is functionality not properly constrained by ACLs, enabling access to restricted features. Exploitation details are not ...

CVE-2025-48166 WordPress Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots <= 1.48 - Broken Access Control Vulnerability

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Bill Minozzi Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs. This issue affects Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots: from n/a through 1.48...

CVE-2025-48166 WordPress Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots <= 1.48 - Broken Access Control Vulnerability

Missing Authorization vulnerability in sminozzi Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots antibots allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots: from n/a through = 1.48...

WordPress plugin Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots 安全漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed in the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A security vulnerability exist...

PT-2025-29726 · WordPress · Stop/Block Bots Plugin Anti Bots

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots versions n/a through 1.48 Description: The Stop and Block bots plugin Anti bots contains a missing authorization flaw. This allows access to functionality that is not properly restricted by Access Control...

AI and LLM Bot Management Has Become a Business-Critical Issue: Do It Right

AI bots, agents, and LLM scrapers all want your content. Here’s how to manage them so that they help, not hinder, your business...

How AI Bots Are Rewriting the Rules of Publishing

See how AI bots impact publishers and how Akamai helps you protect, control, and monetize your content as AI reshapes how people find information...

Behind the Booking: How Bots Are Undermining Airline Revenue

The airline industry is under constant attack from malicious bots. Bad actors use automation to scrape fares, hoard inventory, commit fraud, and compromise customer accounts. While every airline faces its own unique challenges, the business impacts are remarkably consistent—lost revenue, inflated...

On the Efficacy of Old Features for the Detection of New Bots

For more than a decade now, academicians and online platform administrators have been studying solutions to the problem of bot detection. Bots are computer algorithms whose use is far from being benign: malicious bots are purposely created to distribute spam, sponsor public characters and,...

Google bug allowed phone number of almost any user to be discovered

Google has fixed vulnerabilities that made it possible to retrieve the phone numbers of almost any Google user. The flaw was found in the flow that allows users to recover their Google account using a phone number. A cybersecurity researcher called Brutecat was able to figure out the phone number...