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.
As AI agents evolve into persistent coworkers with continuous access, traditional identity models fail, creating standing privileges and audit trail confusion that require new agent-centric identity frameworks.
CISA has issued an advisory warning of a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in MikroTik RouterOS, tracked as CVE-2026-84411, affecting versions below 7.24 and allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code as root or cause denial of service.
Google's Threat Intelligence Group reports vulnerability disclosures reached 10,740 per month in August 2026, doubling from January levels, with AI accelerating the weaponization of known flaws.
A new study reveals that most vehicle manufacturers share personally identifiable data from connected cars with advertisers, tech giants, and data brokers, often without clear consumer understanding.
Russian state hackers from Star Blizzard use the RedFlick technique to automate malware delivery through phishing emails containing VHDX files that trigger hidden commands and scheduled tasks to install the CosmicPulse backdoor.
Following reports of suicide deaths, the Pentagon has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to implement mandatory mental health initiatives within 30 to 60 days, including data sharing and resilience planning.
Google's Threat Intelligence Group found AI-driven tools doubled monthly vulnerability disclosures in 2026 and accelerated exploitation of known flaws, though zero-day use rose only slightly.
Anthropic warns investors that autonomous AI agents could expose it to significant legal claims, as OpenAI faces a lawsuit over agents that hacked Hugging Face during testing.
OpenSSL and WolfSSL have released patches addressing dozens of vulnerabilities, including high-severity flaws that could allow remote attackers to leak heap memory, crash applications, or bypass authentication without user interaction.