Announcing a new strategic collaboration to bring clarity to threat actor naming

In today’s cyberthreat landscape, even seconds of delay can mean the difference between stopping a cyberattack or falling victim to ransomware. One major cause of delayed response is understanding threat actor attribution, which is often slowed by inaccurate or incomplete data as well as...

Blockchain Powered Edge Intelligence for U-Healthcare in Privacy Critical and Time Sensitive Environment

Edge Intelligence EI serves as a critical enabler for privacy-preserving systems by providing AI-empowered computation and distributed caching services at the edge, thereby minimizing latency and enhancing data privacy. The integration of blockchain technology further augments EI frameworks by...

A Unified Framework for Human AI Collaboration in Security Operations Centers with Trusted Autonomy

This article presents a structured framework for Human-AI collaboration in Security Operations Centers SOCs, integrating AI autonomy, trust calibration, and Human-in-the-loop decision making. Existing frameworks in SOCs often focus narrowly on automation, lacking systematic structures to manage...

So, I Climbed to the Top of the Pyramid of Pain -- Now What?

This paper explores the evolving dynamics of cybersecurity in the age of advanced AI, from the perspective of the introduced Human Layer Kill Chain framework. As traditional attack models like Lockheed Martin's Cyber Kill Chain become inadequate in addressing human vulnerabilities exploited by...

Asymmetry by Design: Boosting Cyber Defenders with Differential Access to AI

As AI-enabled cyber capabilities become more advanced, we propose "differential access" as a strategy to tilt the cybersecurity balance toward defense by shaping access to these capabilities. We introduce three possible approaches that form a continuum, becoming progressively more restrictive for...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 19, 2025 to May 25, 2025)

In case you missed it, Wordfence just published itsannual WordPress security report for 2024. Read it now to learn more about the evolving risk landscape of WordPress so you can keep your sites protected in 2025 and beyond. Last week, there were 164 vulnerabilities disclosed in 111 WordPress...

The End of Universal Lifelong Identifiers: Identity Systems for the AI Era

Many identity systems assign a single, static identifier to an individual for life, reused across domains like healthcare, finance, and education. These Universal Lifelong Identifiers ULIs underpin critical workflows but now pose systemic privacy risks. We take the position that ULIs are...

HoneySat: a Network-Based Satellite Honeypot Framework

Satellites are the backbone of several mission-critical services, such as GPS that enable our modern society to function. For many years, satellites were assumed to be secure because of their indecipherable architectures and the reliance on security by obscurity. However, technological advancemen...

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform Access Control Error Vulnerability (CNVD-2025-12752)

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform is a suite of business intelligence software and enterprise performance solutions from SAP, Germany. The product features report generation, analytics, and data visualization. An access control error vulnerability exists in SAP Business Objects...

A Novel Zero-Trust Identity Framework for Agentic AI: Decentralized Authentication and Fine-Grained Access Control

Traditional Identity and Access Management IAM systems, primarily designed for human users or static machine identities via protocols such as OAuth, OpenID Connect OIDC, and SAML, prove fundamentally inadequate for the dynamic, interdependent, and often ephemeral nature of AI agents operating at...

Security Benefits and Side Effects of Labeling AI-Generated Images

Generative artificial intelligence is developing rapidly, impacting humans' interaction with information and digital media. It is increasingly used to create deceptively realistic misinformation, so lawmakers have imposed regulations requiring the disclosure of AI-generated content. However, only...

Russian Hackers Breach 20+ NGOs Using Evilginx Phishing via Fake Microsoft Entra Pages

Microsoft has shed light on a previously undocumented cluster of malicious activity originating from a Russia-affiliated threat actor dubbed Void Blizzard aka Laundry Bear that it said is attributed to "worldwide cloud abuse." Active since at least April 2024, the hacking group is linked to...

Lazarus Group Targets Crypto-Wallets and Financial Data While Employing New Tradecrafts

This report presents a comprehensive analysis of a malicious software sample, detailing its architecture, behavioral characteristics, and underlying intent. Through static and dynamic examination, the malware core functionalities, including persistence mechanisms, command-and-control communicatio...

Penetration Testing for System Security: Methods and Practical Approaches

Penetration testing refers to the process of simulating hacker attacks to evaluate the security of information systems . This study aims not only to clarify the theoretical foundations of penetration testing but also to explain and demonstrate the complete testing process, including how network...

LLM-Driven APT Detection for 6G Wireless Networks: a Systematic Review and Taxonomy

Sixth Generation 6G wireless networks, which are expected to be deployed in the 2030s, have already created great excitement in academia and the private sector with their extremely high communication speed and low latency rates. However, despite the ultra-low latency, high throughput, and...

CVE-2025-20114

A vulnerability in the API of Cisco Unified Intelligence Center could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform a horizontal privilege escalation attack on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied parameters in API requests. An attacker...

Threats don’t wait, neither should you: Mastering Emergent Threat Response Validation

Cybersecurity is a team sport In cybersecurity, no one fights alone. Defending against modern threats requires seamless collaboration, real-time intelligence, and precision execution—just like a well-coordinated sports team. That’s why Rapid7 Labs and our Vector Command team work together to stay...

CVE-2024-52294

Khoj is a self-hostable artificial intelligence app. Prior to version 1.29.10, an Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability in the updatesubscription endpoint allows any authenticated user to manipulate other users' Stripe subscriptions by simply modifying the email parameter in the...

CVE-2024-45412

Yeti bridges the gap between CTI and DFIR practitioners by providing a Forensics Intelligence platform and pipeline. Remote user-controlled data tags can reach a Unicode normalization with a compatibility form NFKD. Under Windows, such normalization is costly in resources and may lead to denial o...

CVE-2024-7919

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Anhui Deshun Intelligent Technology Jieshun JieLink+ JSOTC2016 up to 20240805. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /report/ParkChargeRecord/GetDataList. The manipulation leads to improper access controls. The...