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LLM Honeypot Deceives Attackers into Exposing Their Tactics

An innovative Large Language Model (LLM) honeypot that deceived a threat actor into exposing their complete attack methodology, including botnet infrastructure and command-and-control channels. The breakthrough demonstrates how artificial intelligence can be weaponized for cybersecurity defense, turning attackers' own tools against them. The attack was...

WordPress Post SMTP Plugin Vulnerability Exposes 400K Websites to Account Takeover Attacks

A critical security vulnerability in the popular Post SMTP WordPress plugin has left over 400,000 websites exposed to potential account takeover attacks, allowing even the lowest-privileged users to gain administrator access and achieve full site control. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-24000, stems from broken...

Threat Actors Reportedly Take Credit for Breaching Airpay Payment Gateway

A threat actor on a dark-web forum is advertising “full-stack” access to Airpay’s production environment alongside a trove of personally identifiable information (PII) and financial data. Although Airpay has not yet confirmed the incident publicly, screenshots posted by the attacker and a detailed sales...

Incognito Mode: The Privacy Illusion – What It Hides and Why You’re Still Watched

Most modern browsers advertise a single-click path to privacy called Incognito or Private Browsing. In reality, that promise extends only to erasing traces on the local device while leaving users broadly visible to websites, advertisers, internet-service providers (ISPs), employers, and governments. Misunderstanding these limits is...

Women’s Dating App Tea Exposes Selfie Images of 13,000 Users

Tea, a women-only dating safety app that allows users to anonymously review and comment on men they've dated, has suffered a significant data breach exposing approximately 72,000 user images, including 13,000 sensitive selfies and photo identification documents submitted during account verification processes. The incident,...

Hackers Breach Intelligence Website Used by CIA and Other Agencies

Unidentified hackers recently breached a major intelligence website operated by the National Reconnaissance Office, compromising sensitive contract information and proprietary intellectual property used by the CIA and other federal agencies. The cyberattack targeted the Acquisition Research Center website, which serves as a critical platform...