$20 per zero-day is already the WordPress plugin reality

2026-05-22T14:51:45Zd5d03446a0f8f0ea856e65b429b5f9a69024c27839da0ccc92dc5c575a09f7aa
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What happened

This collection of security news highlights several emergent threats and defensive moves: researchers demonstrated an AI-driven pipeline able to find and validate WordPress plugin zero-days at scale (priced publicly at ~$20 per zero-day); Aikido Security found deleted Google API keys remain valid for up to 23 minutes, risking abuse and data/Gemini access; the FBI warned of Kali365, a Phishing-as-a-Service that captures Microsoft 365/OAuth tokens and can bypass MFA; law enforcement arrested an alleged KimWolf DDoS-for-hire operator; and vendors and vendors’ tooling responded with mitigations or

Why it matters

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