Most bot-management vendors publish no price at all. We collected every figure that is actually on the record — DataDome, AWS WAF Bot Control, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare and Imperva — plus the four cost traps that sit behind the headline numbers.
Anthropic's research indicates small AI models may achieve self-replication on consumer IoT devices like smart ovens and Android TV boxes within months, potentially forming distributed botnets without centralized control.
A heap buffer overflow in Ghostscript versions 9.21 through 10.07.1 allows unauthenticated remote code execution when processing malicious PDFs, affecting WordPress and other systems that render uploaded PDFs.
Federal prosecutors charged 14 individuals for enabling North Korean IT workers to infiltrate U.S. companies using stolen identities and laptop farms, seizing 187 computers and disrupting a $3 million payroll scheme tied to weapons funding.
Attackers exploited a chain of three zero-days in Ivanti Connect Secure, including CVE-2026-104935, to bypass authentication and execute remote code before Ivanti issued a patch.
A 35-year-old OpenAI engineer from Saudi Arabia was arrested for allegedly installing a covert audio recorder in an executive conference room to capture sensitive company discussions.
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday update addresses more than 1,400 security flaws across Windows and related software, including two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows Shell and .NET Framework.
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed a record 1,411 security flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities, while ending support for Windows 11 24H2 and Windows 10 LTSB 2016.
A critical flaw in Docker Hub allowed attackers to hijack personal access tokens during account-to-organization conversion, enabling them to impersonate users and tamper with container images without consent.
AI does not create new attack methods but significantly increases the speed and scale of existing threats like phishing, reducing defender response time and raising breach likelihood.