Wordfence Bug Bounty Program Monthly Report – October 2025

Last month in October 2025, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 486 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 Wordfenc...

What is CTEM? Your Guide to Reducing Cyber Risk

Trying to explain security priorities to your board using CVSS scores is a tough sell. A long list of technical flaws doesn't translate to business impact, making it difficult to justify budgets and get buy-in for critical initiatives. Security leaders need a better way to frame the conversation...

SafePay Ransomware: TTPs and Defense Strategies

When a threat actor disables your security software and starts deleting your backups, you’re already in the middle of a crisis. The operators behind SafePay ransomware are known for these exact tactics, deliberately sabotaging your ability to respond and recover. Catching an attack like this earl...

CISA Releases Guide to Mitigate Risks from Bulletproof Hosting Providers

Today, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, in collaboration with the U.S. National Security Agency, U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and international partners, released the guide Bulletproof Defense: Mitigating Risks from...

6 Actionable Vulnerability Management Best Practices

Every unpatched vulnerability is more than just a technical flaw; it's a direct business risk. These security gaps are the entry points for breaches that lead to devastating financial losses, operational downtime, and long-term damage to your brand's reputation. When viewed through this lens,...

Grid-STIX: A STIX 2.1-Compliant Cyber-Physical Security Ontology for Power Grid

Modern electrical power grids represent complex cyber-physical systems requiring specialized cybersecurity frameworks beyond traditional IT security models. Existing threat intelligence standards such as STIX 2.1 and MITRE ATT&CK lack coverage for grid-specific assets, operational technology...

5 Exposure Management Best Practices for Your Team

Let's be honest: the traditional approach to vulnerability management is broken. Your team is likely drowning in a sea of alerts, staring at scan reports thousands of lines long, and struggling to figure out what to fix first. This constant state of reactive fire-fighting is exhausting and, worse...

Microsoft Fixes 63 Security Flaws, Including a Windows Kernel Zero-Day Under Active Attack

Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for 63 new security vulnerabilities identified in its software, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 63 flaws, four are rated Critical and 59 are rated Important in severity. Twenty-nine of these vulnerabilities are relate...

9 Key Areas to Monitor for Potential Security Threats

The old "castle-and-moat" approach to security is a thing of the past. Your organization's perimeter is no longer a single, defensible line; it's a distributed and porous collection of remote employees, cloud services, and third-party vendors. Every connection is a potential entry point, and your...

Strategic Benefits of Vulnerability Prioritization

Think of your security team as the staff in a hospital emergency room. They can't treat every patient at once, so they perform triage, focusing on the most critical cases first to save lives. Vulnerability prioritization is security triage. Your organization has a seemingly endless list of...

Large Language Models for Explainable Threat Intelligence

As cyber threats continue to grow in complexity, traditional security mechanisms struggle to keep up. Large language models LLMs offer significant potential in cybersecurity due to their advanced capabilities in text processing and generation. This paper explores the use of LLMs with...

Do robots dream of secure networking? Teaching cybersecurity to AI systems

This blog explores how to equip autonomous AI agents with cybersecurity knowledge, enabling them to make informed decisions about internet safety, such as identifying trustworthy links and websites. It demonstrates a proof of concept using LangChain and OpenAI, integrated with the Cisco Umbrella...

The Evolution of SOC Operations: How Continuous Exposure Management Transforms Security Operations

Security Operations Centers SOC today are overwhelmed. Analysts handle thousands of alerts every day, spending much time chasing false positives and adjusting detection rules reactively. SOCs often lack the environmental context and relevant threat intelligence needed to quickly verify which aler...

AthenaBench: A Dynamic Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Cyber Threat Intelligence

Large Language Models LLMs have demonstrated strong capabilities in natural language reasoning, yet their application to Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI remains limited. CTI analysis involves distilling large volumes of unstructured reports into actionable knowledge, a process where LLMs could...

MH-1M: A 1.34 Million-Sample Comprehensive Multi-Feature Android Malware Dataset for Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Large Language Models, and Threat Intelligence Research

We present MH-1M, one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date datasets for advanced Android malware research. The dataset comprises 1,340,515 applications, encompassing a wide range of features and extensive metadata. To ensure accurate malware classification, we employ the VirusTotal API,...

5 Best Threat Exposure Management Tools for 2025

A long list of vulnerabilities without context isn't a security strategy—it's just noise. Legacy vulnerability scanners are great at finding potential flaws, but they often fail to answer the most important question: "What should we fix right now?" This is why Threat Exposure Management TEM...

A Practical Guide to Attack Surface Intelligence Mapping

Think of your organization’s digital presence as a sprawling, ever-expanding city. New buildings servers go up, old ones are forgotten, and unofficial shortcuts shadow IT appear overnight. Trying to defend this city without a current map is impossible. You’re left reacting to alarms instead of...

Why Early Threat Detection Is a Must for Long-Term Business Growth

In cybersecurity, speed isn't just a win — it's a multiplier. The faster you learn about emerging threats, the faster you adapt your defenses, the less damage you suffer, and the more confidently your business keeps scaling. Early threat detection isn't about preventing a breach someday: it's abo...

Cloud Attack Surface Management Mapping 101

Before an attacker launches an assault, they do their homework. Their first step is to meticulously map your digital footprint, searching for the path of least resistance—an exposed database, an unpatched server, or a forgotten subdomain. The reality is that your attack surface is already being...

Malware Using Variable Functions and Cookies For Obfuscation

📢 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 $31,2...