Winning Against AI-Based Attacks Requires a Combined Defensive Approach

If there's a constant in cybersecurity, it's that adversaries are always innovating. The rise of offensive AI is transforming attack strategies and making them harder to detect. Google's Threat Intelligence Group, recently reported on adversaries using Large Language Models LLMs to both conceal...

Konni Hackers Deploy AI-Generated PowerShell Backdoor Against Blockchain Developers

The North Korean threat actor known as Konni has been observed using PowerShell malware generated using artificial intelligence AI tools to target developers and engineering teams in the blockchain sector. The phishing campaign has targeted Japan, Australia, and India, highlighting the adversary'...

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 ,...

Multi-Agent Collaborative Intrusion Detection for Low-Altitude Economy IoT: An LLM-Enhanced Agentic AI Framework

The rapid expansion of low-altitude economy Internet of Things LAE-IoT networks has created unprecedented security challenges due to dynamic three-dimensional mobility patterns, distributed autonomous operations, and severe resource constraints. Traditional intrusion detection systems designed fo...

Who Approved This Agent? Rethinking Access, Accountability, and Risk in the Age of AI Agents

AI agents are accelerating how work gets done. They schedule meetings, access data, trigger workflows, write code, and take action in real time, pushing productivity beyond human speed across the enterprise. Then comes the moment every security team eventually hits: “Wait… who approved this?”...

CVE-2025-14609 Wise Analytics <= 1.1.9 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Analytics Database Disclosure via 'name' Parameter

The Wise Analytics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.9. This is due to missing capability checks on the REST API endpoint '/wise-analytics/v1/report'. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to access sensitive...

Exploit for CVE-2023-12345

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Wordfence Bug Bounty Program Monthly Report – December 2025

Last month in December 2025, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 759 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 Wordfen...

AIs are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Internet Vulnerabilities

Really interesting blog post from Anthropic: In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now succeed at multistage attacks on networks with dozens of hosts using only standard, open-source tools, instead of the custom tools needed by previous generations. Th...

Toward Risk Thresholds for AI-Enabled Cyber Threats: Enhancing Decision-Making under Uncertainty with Bayesian Networks

Artificial intelligence AI is increasingly being used to augment and automate cyber operations, altering the scale, speed, and accessibility of malicious activity. These shifts raise urgent questions about when AI systems introduce unacceptable or intolerable cyber risk, and how risk thresholds...

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (January 2026 CPU)

The 7.6.0.0.0 and 8.2.0.0.0 versions of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher installed on the remote host are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the January 2026 CPU advisory. - Security-in-Depth issue in the Oracle BI Publisher product of Oracle Analytics component: Development...

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (12.2.1.4) (January 2026 CPU)

The version of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12.2.1.4 installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the January 2026 CPU advisory. - Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Analytics component...

Secure Intellicise Wireless Network: Agentic AI for Coverless Semantic Steganography Communication

Semantic Communication SemCom, leveraging its significant advantages in transmission efficiency and reliability, has emerged as a core technology for constructing future intellicise intelligent and concise wireless networks. However, intelligent attacks represented by semantic eavesdropping pose...

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OAS 8.2) (January 2026 CPU)

The version of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition OAS 8.2.0.0 installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the January 2026 CPU advisory, including the following: - Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition product o...

I scan, you scan, we all scan for... knowledge?

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. " Upon us all a little rain must fall" -- Led Zeppelin, via Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I recently bumped into a colleague with whom I spent several years working in an MSSP environment. We had very different roles within the...

Microsoft Security success stories: Why integrated security is the foundation of AI transformation

AI is transforming how organizations operate and how they approach security. In this new era of agentic AI, every interaction, digital or human, must be built on trust. As businesses modernize, they’re not just adopting AI tools, they're rearchitecting their digital foundations. And that means...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: RHOAI 3.2 - Red Hat OpenShift AI

Updated images are now available for Red Hat OpenShift AI. Release of RHOAI 3.2 provides these changes:...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (January 12, 2026 to January 18, 2026)

Did you know Wordfence runs aBug Bounty Program for all WordPress plugin and themes at no cost to vendors? Researchers can earn up to $31,200 per vulnerability , for all in-scope vulnerabilities submitted to our Bug Bounty Program! Find a vulnerability, submit the details directly to us, and we...

Fake LastPass maintenance emails target users

The LastPass Threat Intelligence, Mitigation, and Escalation TIME team has published a warning about an active phishing campaign in which fake “maintenance” emails pressure users to back up their vaults within 24 hours. The emails lead to credential-stealing phishing sites rather than any...

Don’t Just Replace Kenna- Evolve to Vulnerability Exposure Management

Cisco has announced the end-of-sale for Cisco Vulnerability Management formerly Kenna Security, leaving security teams with a critical decision: remain on a legacy path or transform. Yes, it is true that the Kenna Security platform will be supported until June 30th, 2028 but the platform won’t be...