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.
Security researchers earned $1.26 million by exploiting 98 previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities at Pwn2Own Ireland 2026, with Ikotas Labs winning the top prize of $361,000.
Citrix warns administrators to immediately patch NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances configured as SAML IdP or SP due to a critical remote code execution flaw tracked as CVE-2026-107406.
Saif Al-din Khader, known online as 'Rey,' was detained by Jordanian authorities while allegedly attempting to extort Jeppesen ForeFlight, a former Boeing unit, and is cooperating with the FBI.
PoeLLM malware has compromised over 3,400 servers since April by using a poem on GitHub as a dynamic command-and-control lookup table, enabling resilient botnet growth without malware updates.
Experts warn that sufficiently powerful quantum computers could break widely used encryption, prompting calls for urgent federal action to adopt post-quantum cryptography before adversaries can exploit harvested data.
OpenAI shut down two influence operations from Russia and Iran that used AI-generated fake journalist personas and covert think tanks to plant disinformation in mainstream media, with the Russian campaign rated impact level 5.
The United States disrupted two Chinese state-sponsored hacking tools, MicroScan and FishHub, used by Integrity Technology Group for vulnerability scanning and network intrusion against critical infrastructure targets worldwide.
Bitdefender discovered the Midnight Mimosa campaign, which implants persistent firmware-level malware on low-cost Android devices across more than 150 countries, enabling remote control for ad fraud and botnet recruitment.
Japanese authorities arrested a 28-year-old Russian national in Osaka in May 2024 and extradited him to Germany in June over alleged involvement in Qilin ransomware attacks, including one on a German company.