AI-Powered Villager Pen Testing Tool Hits 11,000 PyPI Downloads Amid Abuse Concerns

A new artificial intelligence AI-powered penetration testing tool linked to a China-based company has attracted nearly 11,000 downloads on the Python Package Index PyPI repository, raising concerns that it could be repurposed by cybercriminals for malicious purposes. Dubbed Villager, the framewor...

Cyber Threat Hunting: Non-Parametric Mining of Attack Patterns from Cyber Threat Intelligence for Precise Threats Attribution

With the ever-changing landscape of cyber threats, identifying their origin has become paramount, surpassing the simple task of attack classification. Cyber threat attribution gives security analysts the insights they need to device effective threat mitigation strategies. Such strategies empower...

From Firewalls to Frontiers: AI Red-Teaming Is a Domain-Specific Evolution of Cyber Red-Teaming

A red team simulates adversary attacks to help defenders find effective strategies to defend their systems in a real-world operational setting. As more enterprise systems adopt AI, red-teaming will need to evolve to address the unique vulnerabilities and risks posed by AI systems. We take the...

Securing AI Agents: Implementing Role-Based Access Control for Industrial Applications

The emergence of Large Language Models LLMs has significantly advanced solutions across various domains, from political science to software development. However, these models are constrained by their training data, which is static and limited to information available up to a specific date...

SoK: How Sensor Attacks Disrupt Autonomous Vehicles: an End-To-End Analysis, Challenges, and Missed Threats

Autonomous vehicles, including self-driving cars, robotic ground vehicles, and drones, rely on complex sensor pipelines to ensure safe and reliable operation. However, these safety-critical systems remain vulnerable to adversarial sensor attacks that can compromise their performance and mission...

Large Language Models for Security Operations Centers: a Comprehensive Survey

Large Language Models LLMs have emerged as powerful tools capable of understanding and generating human-like text, offering transformative potential across diverse domains. The Security Operations Center SOC, responsible for safeguarding digital infrastructure, represents one of these domains. SO...

AI browsers or agentic browsers: a look at the future of web surfing

Browsers like Chrome, Edge, and Firefox are our traditional gateway to the internet. But lately, we have seen a new generation of browsers emerge. These are AI-powered browsers or "agentic browsers"—which are not to be confused with your regular browsers that have just AI-powered plugins bolted o...

Mattermost Server 10.5.x < 10.5.9 / 10.10.0 Incorrect Authorization (MMSA-2025-00470)

The version of Mattermost Server installed on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the MMSA-2025-00470 advisory. - Mattermost versions 10.5.x = 10.5.8 fail to validate access controls at time of access which allows user to read a thread via AI posts CVE-2025-49810 Note...

Patch Tuesday Risk Elimination with Agent Sara

Introduction Risk elimination is the goal of any vulnerability management program. It is typically achieved through a combination of patching and scripting solutions. SecOps teams usually prioritize vulnerabilities and forward them to IT teams for remediation. However, the real challenge lies in...

How Wiz Customers like Brex and FICO See AI Changing Security

Executives from Brex and FICO share how AI is reshaping security strategies...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 1, 2025 to September 7, 2025)

Calling all Vulnerability Researchers and Bug Bounty Hunters! Operation: Maximum Impact Challenge ! Now through November 10, 2025, earn 2X bounty rewards forall in-scope submissions in software with at least 5,000 active installs and fewer than 5 million active installs. Bounties up to $31,200 pe...

Boost the Performance and Security — and Lower the Costs — of AI Apps

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A Bootiful Podcast: Purnima Padmanabhan, General Manager, Tanzu Division, Broadcom

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the general manager of Tanzu, the legendary Purnima Padmanabhan, about AI, the power of the platform, and more. Recorded live from SpringOne 2025!...

CryptoGuard: an AI-Based Cryptojacking Detection Dashboard Prototype

With the widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies, cryptojacking has become a significant security threat to crypto wallet users. This paper presents a front-end prototype of an AI-powered security dashboard, namely, CryptoGuard. Developed through a user-centered design process, the prototype was...

WordPress AI ChatBot for WordPress plugin cross-site scripting vulnerability

WordPress AI ChatBot for WordPress plugin is an Artificial Intelligence ChatBot plugin designed for WordPress websites, which is mainly used to provide 24/7 automated customer service support, generate leads, collect user information and other features. The WordPress AI ChatBot for WordPress plug...

A Cyber-Twin Based Honeypot for Gathering Threat Intelligence

Critical Infrastructure CI is prone to cyberattacks. Several techniques have been developed to protect CI against such attacks. In this work, we describe a honeypot based on a cyber twin for a water treatment plant. The honeypot is intended to serve as a realistic replica of a water treatment pla...

Notes of cyber inspector: three clusters of threat in cyberspace

Hacktivism and geopolitically motivated APT groups have become a significant threat to many regions of the world in recent years, damaging infrastructure and important functions of government, business, and society. In late 2022 we predicted that the involvement of hacktivist groups in all major...

Kikimora Announces Launch of Kikimora Agent: Accessible AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platform for SME Security

Sofia, Bulgaria, 10th September 2025, CyberNewsWire...

Maturing the cyber threat intelligence program

The Cyber Threat Intelligence Capability Maturity Model CTI-CMM helps organizations assess and improve their threat intelligence programs by outlining 11 key areas and specific missions where CTI can support decision-making. The model describes four levels of maturity, guiding teams from basic, a...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-23548

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Reflected XSS in business intelligence in Checkmk 2.2.0p8, 2.1.0p32, 2.0.0p38, =1.6.0p30. CVE-2023-23548 Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package ...