More than 40,000 WordPress sites affected by new malware flaw - find out if you're affected

QSM lets users create quizzes, surveys, and forms without coding, with more than 40,000 websites actively using it - but recently, it was discovered versions 10.3.1 and older were vulnerable to an SQL ...
Infosecurity Magazine

SQL Injection Flaw Affects 40,000 WordPress Sites

More than 40,000 WordPress sites using the Quiz and Survey Master plugin have been affected by a SQL injection vulnerability that allowed authenticated users to interfere with database queries.
Security Boulevard

MCP security: How to prevent prompt injection and tool poisoning attacks

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become the open protocol that enables AI agents to connect securely to external tools, databases, and business systems. But this convenience comes with ...
Bleeping Computer

Exploit code public for critical FortiSIEM command injection flaw

Technical details and a public exploit have been published for a critical vulnerability affecting Fortinet's Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution that could be leveraged by a ...
Jalopnik

The Pros And Cons Of Swapping A Carburetor For Fuel Injection

Electronic fuel injection revolutionized the auto industry in the 1980s. It came to replace the carburetor in the task of sending fuel to the engine's cylinders but it does much more: it controls ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks

Even as OpenAI works to harden its Atlas AI browser against cyberattacks, the company admits that prompt injections, a type of attack that manipulates AI agents to follow malicious instructions often ...
IEEE

SQL Injection Detection, Prevention and Deception Using ML Classifiers

Abstract: SQL injection (SQLi) attacks are arguably the most prevalent and destructive security attacks against web applications currently in use. SQLi attacks allow malicious users to exploit input ...
The Hacker News

Webinar: How Attackers Exploit Cloud Misconfigurations Across AWS, AI Models, and Kubernetes

Cloud security is changing. Attackers are no longer just breaking down the door; they are finding unlocked windows in your configurations, your identities, and your code. Standard security tools often ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

UK NCSC Raises Alarms Over Prompt Injection Attacks

Prompt injection vulnerabilities may never be fully mitigated as a category and network defenders should instead focus on ways to reduce their impact, government security experts have warned. Then ...
Computer Weekly

NCSC warns of confusion over true nature of AI prompt injection

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has highlighted a potentially dangerous misunderstanding surrounding emergent prompt injection attacks against generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) ...
cryptopolitan

New exploit found in ServiceNow’s AI agents can be tricked to act against each other

Researchers uncover a second-order prompt injection exploit in ServiceNow’s Now Assist AI agents caused by risky default configurations. Attackers can manipulate agent-to-agent collaboration to steal ...