AI agents have traditionally faced three core limitations: they can’t retain learned information or operate autonomously beyond short periods, and they require constant supervision. AWS addresses these limitations with frontier agents—a new category of AI that performs complex reasoning, multi-step planning, and autonomous execution for hours or days. Multi-agent collaboration has emerged as a powerful…
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ServiceNow AI Platform Vulnerability Enables Unauthenticated RCE
ServiceNow has addressed a critical vulnerability in its AI Platform that could have allowed unauthenticated remote code execution in enterprise environments. The flaw has a CVSS score of 9.8, reflecting its high severity and potential impact on workflow automation and AI-driven operations. “This vulnerability could potentially enable an unauthenticated user, in certain circumstances, to remotely…
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Tradewinds Networks Announces Infrastructure Platform
Tradewinds Network has announced the launch of its smart city-integrated infrastructure platform. The integrated Owner-hosted Community Network (OHCN) architecture with AI-driven cybersecurity aims to secure core-to-edge infrastructure for municipalities and enterprises. Platform supports digitalinfrastructure operations The platform now supports multi-tenant facilities, municipalities, aviation hubs, manufacturing environments, utilities, and defense-adjacent operations seeking resilient, community-aligned digital infrastructure.…
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China-linked hackers used Google Sheets to spy on telecoms and governments across 42 countries
Google has disrupted a China-linked espionage group that used Google’s spreadsheet application as a covert spy tool to compromise telecom providers and government agencies across 42 countries, sending commands and receiving stolen data through it, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said on Thursday. Working with Mandiant, GTIG confirmed intrusions at 53 organizations across 42 countries,…
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Anthropic buys Vercept, deepening push into AI task automation
Anthropic has acquired Seattle-based AI startup Vercept, signaling further consolidation in the emerging market for AI agents that can directly operate software applications. Vercept, a graduate of Seattle’s AI-focused incubator A12, developed cloud-based agents capable of controlling a remote MacBook, part of a broader effort to rethink how work gets done as enterprises explore AI-driven…
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The farmers and the mercenaries: Rethinking the ‘human layer’ in security
There’s a phrase that’s become gospel in cybersecurity: “Employees are the last line of defense.” We’ve built an entire industry around it. Billions of dollars in security awareness programs, mandatory simulations and user-reporting workflows across endpoints, applications and collaboration tools. All predicated on a premise that sounds reasonable until you examine what we’re actually asking.…
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Anthropic acquires Vercept to expand the capabilities of AI computer use
Anthropic has acquired Vercept to help push Claude’s computer use capabilities further. People are using Claude for increasingly complex work, including writing and running code across entire repositories, synthesizing research from dozens of sources, and managing workflows that span multiple tools and teams. Computer use enables Claude to do all of that inside live applications,…
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Intellicheck Desktop Application helps organizations combat identity theft
Intellicheck announced the roll out of its enriched Desktop Application. The new Desktop Application allows any sized organization to immediately stop identity theft and fraud losses. Implementation is immediate. No system integration is needed. This comes at minimal cost. The technology solution works with the scanners most organizations already have in place. Intellicheck’s Desktop Application…
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5 trends that should top CISO’s RSA 2026 agendas
RSA 2026 is still weeks away and the hype machine is humming. This year’s theme, “The Power of Community,” is somewhat ironic as the overwhelming chatter at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from March 23 to March 26 will be about AI agents, not humans. Welcome to the cybersecurity community, agents, automatons, and robots!…
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Open-source security debt grows across commercial software
Open source code sits inside nearly every commercial application, and development teams continue to add new dependencies. Black Duck’s 2026 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report data shows that nearly all audited codebases contain open source components, with average component counts rising sharply over the past year. That growth brings a parallel increase in…
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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: February 2026
This month’s roundup features exceptional open-source cybersecurity tools that are gaining attention for strengthening security across various environments. Pompelmi: Open-source secure file upload scanning for Node.js Software teams building services in JavaScript are adding more layers of defense to handle untrusted file uploads. An open-source project called Pompelmi aims to insert malware scanning and policy…
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Five Eyes issue emergency directive on exploited Cisco SD-WAN zero-day
Cybersecurity agencies across the Five Eyes alliance have issued an emergency directive warning that a critical Cisco SD-WAN vulnerability is being actively exploited to gain unauthorized access to federal networks. Officials confirmed that threat actors are targeting core SD-WAN control systems —infrastructure that manages traffic across government and enterprise networks — and urged organizations to…
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Zenarmor Debuts Global SASE Channel Partner Program
Zenarmor on Feb. 24 launched a global SASE Channel Partner Program aimed at MSPs, MSSPs, ISPs, and security-focused channel partners seeking to deliver distributed secure access services without relying on centralized cloud points of presence (PoPs). The Cupertino, Calif.-based vendor said its partner-first initiative formalizes a go-to-market strategy built around what it calls a single-app,…
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The CLAIR Model: A Synthesized Conceptual Framework for Mapping Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies [Guest Diary], (Wed, Feb 25th)
[This is a guest diary contributed by Claire Perry (LinkedIn)] The structural integrity of modern society is predicated upon a dense and often opaque network of interconnected systems. For decades, the modeling of these systems remained siloed within specific domains: industrial processes were governed by the hierarchical constraints of the Purdue Model, while corporate…
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ShinyHunters Claims Wynn Resorts Data Theft
Wynn Resorts has confirmed that employee data was accessed by an unauthorized third party after the company appeared on the ShinyHunters extortion group’s leak site. The casino and hospitality giant said it activated its incident response plan immediately upon discovering the intrusion. “We have learned that an unauthorized third party acquired certain employee data,” Wynn…
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MWC: When it comes to 6G, Apple is a leader, not a follower
Does anyone remember when Apple was about to collapse because it didn’t offer 5G iPhones? Well, things have changed since then and as we make our way toward the 6G network transition expected in 2030 or so, Apple is ready to take part. How do I know this? Because Apple will have a presence at…
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VAST Data Introduces End-to-End Fully Accelerated AI Data Stack with NVIDIA
VAST AI OS will leverage NVIDIA libraries to accelerate both compute and data services for RAG, vector search, real-time SQL, and agentic applications
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Netskope NewEdge AI Fast Path reduces latency for enterprise AI workloads
Netskope has announced NewEdge AI Fast Path, a set of capabilities designed to optimize network paths to critical AI destinations, including applications hosted in public, private, or neo-cloud environments. The offering reduces latency and costs, improves performance and resilience, and delivers a secure experience for teams using AI applications or enterprises adopting agentic AI. Eliminating…
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12.4 Million Accounts Exposed in CarGurus Leak
Millions of CarGurus users may have had their personal and financial data exposed after a notorious threat actor group published a massive dataset allegedly stolen from the automotive marketplace. Attributed to the ShinyHunters extortion group, the leak includes 12.4 million records with about 70% of those being new data. “The ShinyHunters extortion group has published…
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Thoughtworks and IDC Report Reveals Most Organisations Trapped in Costly Legacy Cycles; Only 12% Achieve True AI-Driven Operations
GUEST RESEARCH: Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy integrating design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation, today released findings from its global report, titled; “Modernisation Is No Longer a Project: AI-Enabled Managed Services for Continuous Change.” The data reveals a critical disconnect between AI adoption and maturity in IT operations. The report delves into what separates…
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After OpenClaw backlash, Quill bets on security-by-design agentic AI
It’s clear users are hungry for agentic tools — but AI agents like OpenClaw have shown how disastrous they can be when hastily rolled out or improperly executed. Quill, an AI startup, hopes to do better with what it calls “a chief of AI staff,” Quilliam. Rather than just transcribing meetings or logging Slack conversations,…
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Malicious NuGet Packages Stole ASP.NET Data; npm Package Dropped Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four malicious NuGet packages that are designed to target ASP.NET web application developers to steal sensitive data. The campaign, discovered by Socket, exfiltrates ASP.NET Identity data, including user accounts, role assignments, and permission mappings, as well as manipulates authorization rules to create persistent backdoors in victim applications.
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ShinyHunters cyberattack on CarGurus impacts 12.4 Million users
ShinyHunters leaked data from 12.4M CarGurus accounts, exposing personal information from the U.S.-based auto research and shopping platform. The ShinyHunters group published personal data from over 12 million CarGurus accounts. CarGurus is a U.S.-based digital automotive marketplace that helps users research, compare, and connect with sellers of new and used vehicles. Operating in the U.S.,…
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Former U.S. Defense contractor executive sentenced for selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker Operation Zero
A former employee at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris got over 7 years in prison for selling eight zero-days to a Russian broker. Peter Williams, a 39-year-old Australian former L3Harris employee, received a prison sentence of just over seven years for selling eight zero-day exploits to the Russian broker Operation Zero for millions. Williams pleaded guilty…
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A Practical Guide to Microsoft Copilot for MSPs
If you’re an MSP considering adding Microsoft Copilot to your portfolio in 2026, it’s worth being deliberate about how you package and position it for clients. For many organizations, pitching AI as a novel “productivity booster” is no longer enough. Customers increasingly expect the conversation to shift from experimentation to execution, anchored in defined use…
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Microsoft adds domain libraries and Copilot integration to the quantum development kit
The Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK) is an open-source toolkit that runs on laptops and in common development environments. It includes code, simulators, libraries, and workflows that work with Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot. Integration with these tools gives developers features for writing, testing, debugging, and submitting quantum code. The QDK supports multiple programming…
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New Serv-U bugs extend SolarWinds’ run of high-severity disclosures
SolarWinds continues to be besieged by security issues, this time in its Serv-U managed file transfer server. The software company has released four patches for critical Serv-U remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to gain root (administrator) access to unpatched servers. These four common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) are rated “critical,” the…
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Fake Zoom meeting silently installs surveillance software, says Malwarebytes
The latest fake Zoom meeting scam silently pushes surveillance software onto the Windows computers of unwitting employees. That’s according to researchers at Malwarebytes, who warn that staff falling for the scam land in a convincing imitation of a Zoom video call. Moments later, an automatic “Update Available” countdown downloads a malicious installer, without asking permission.…
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What are the types of ransomware attacks?
Ransomware isn’t an isolated, potential cyber threat—it’s like a living organism that can shapeshift with multiple strains, tactics, and targets. The cybercriminals behind ransomware attacks run these operations like a business and are motivated to keep up profits at any cost. Their tactics range from quickly locking down an entire network to slowly leaking sensitive…
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VMware Aria Vulnerabilities Expose RCE Risk
Broadcom has disclosed three vulnerabilities in VMware Aria Operations, including one that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution during product migrations. One of the flaws, CVE-2026-22719, can allow an attacker “… to execute arbitrary commands which may lead to remote code execution in VMware Aria Operations while support-assisted product migration is in progress,” said Broadcom…
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Cyber defense: From reactive to proactive
When systems are attacked, we should respond. But how much better would it be if we could anticipate attacks before they strike and stop them with a proactive defense? Faced with today’s cybersecurity challenges, that is no simple task. “It’s a cat-and-mouse situation. AI is changing the speed and sophistication of attacks, and AI is…
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Google Patches Three High-Severity Chrome Flaws
Google has released a security update for its Chrome browser that addresses three high-severity vulnerabilities, which could pose risk to users. One of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-3061, allows “… a remote attacker to perform an out-of-bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page,” said NIST in its advisory. Inside the Chrome Vulnerabilities The security update addresses…
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What Gemini 3.1 Pro Means for Heavy-Duty AI Users
Google just introduced Gemini 3.1 Pro, the newest version of its flagship model which cracked the market back in November. Instead of optimizing for and spitting out quick replies, Gemini 3.1 Pro is designed to handle problems that require multiple steps and deeper reasoning. Google touts performance scoring as Gemini competes with GPT-5.2 Google ran…
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Anthropic alleges large-scale distillation campaigns targeting Claude
Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI developers of running large-scale campaigns to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude model to improve their own systems. The company claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used a distillation technique, where a less capable model is trained on the outputs of a more advanced one. More than 16 million interactions…
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Moonrise RAT: A New Low-Detection Threat with High-Cost Consequences
Security professionals rely on early detection signals to prioritize and contain incidents. But what happens when a fully capable RAT generates none? In a recent investigation, the ANY.RUN experts uncovered a new Go-based remote access trojan we named Moonrise. At the time of analysis, it wasn’t detected on VirusTotal and had no vendor signatures tied to it. That’s the problem teams can’t ignore: credential theft, remote command execution, and persistence…
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Pure Storage Rebrands to Everpure with M&A, Partner News
Pure Storage has announced it will rebrand as Everpure, representing an evolution in data management for the organization. The newly named company also announced a recent acquisition and updates to its partner program. New identity, evolved mission: inside the Everpure roll-out Everpure’s strategy addresses two challenges enterprises face and enables customers to create their own…
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Pure Storage Rebrands to Everpure with M&A, Partner News
Pure Storage has announced it will rebrand as Everpure, representing an evolution in data management for the organization. The newly named company also announced a recent acquisition and updates to its partner program. New identity, evolved mission: inside the Everpure roll-out Everpure’s strategy addresses two challenges enterprises face and enables customers to create their own…
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Anthropic’s Claude Code Security rollout is an industry wakeup call
When Anthropic launched a “limited research preview” of its Claude Code Security offering on Friday, Wall Street investors sent the stocks of the largest cybersecurity vendors plunging. But did the Anthropic rollout warrant such a reaction? After all, those companies, including CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks and Okta, are preparing their own agentic capabilities, and…
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: February 24, 2026
Application Security Engineer Anthropic | USA | On-site – View job details As an Application Security Engineer, you will secure AI products and internal tools by embedding security into the SDLC, conducting design reviews and threat modeling, and scaling secure code review practices. You will also lead vulnerability management efforts, building automation and prioritization workflows…
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AWS Threat Intel Finds 600+ FortiGate Devices Hit
A financially motivated cybercriminal has used commercial generative AI tools to compromise more than 600 FortiGate devices across 55 countries — without exploiting specific software vulnerabilities. This “… campaign succeeded by exploiting exposed management ports and weak credentials with single-factor authentication, fundamental security gaps that AI helped an unsophisticated actor exploit at scale,” said CJ…
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In India, Nvidia eyes a different approach to sovereign AI
Nvidia has been talking about sovereign AI for years, but is finding that India’s cultural and economic diversity calls for a different approach. Unlike in the US, truckloads of GPUs won’t drive the chipmaker’s expansion in India. Instead, the company plans to focus on software first, and deal with computing power later. It’s betting on…
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OpenAI partners with consulting giants to deploy enterprise AI agents
As it bids to push further into the enterprise, OpenAI announced Monday that it has partnered with several large consulting firms. Frontier Alliances, as the partner initiative is called, will involve work with Accenture, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Capgemini, and McKinsey & Co. The multi-year partnerships will “help customers define strategy, integrate systems, redesign workflows,…
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Out of the Shadows: How to Safely Migrate Data for AI Deployments
Roughly two decades ago, organizational leaders began asking many questions about a watershed technology migration in the making: Should we move our data to the cloud? How much should we commit to the cloud? Could our employees use the cloud without IT’s approval? From Cloud Migration to AI Migration Today, another massive migration is underway,…
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1.2 Million Accounts Exposed in French Bank Registry Breach
An incident disclosed by the French Ministry of Finance involved unauthorized access to the national bank account registry and may have exposed data tied to approximately 1.2 million accounts. This case highlights the continued effectiveness of credential theft as an attack vector. The attacker “… was able to consult part of this file which lists…
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With ‘Frontier,’ OpenAI hopes to own the enterprise agent stack
With its new Frontier platform, announced earlier this month, OpenAI is looking to position itself as the best option for managing enterprise AI agents. But to succeed, the company that delivered the popular ChatGPT in 2022 will need to show it can manage the complexity of large-scale agent deployments — and do so better than …
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CVE-2026-1731 fuels ongoing attacks on BeyondTrust remote access products
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-1731 in BeyondTrust RS and PRA to deploy VShell, gain persistence, move laterally, and control compromised systems. Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score: 9.9), in BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA). The flaw is being used to conduct a wide…
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How Exposed Endpoints Increase Risk Across LLM Infrastructure
As more organizations run their own Large Language Models (LLMs), they are also deploying more internal services and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to support those models. Modern security risks are being introduced less from the models themselves and more from the infrastructure that serves, connects and automates the model. Each new LLM endpoint expands the…
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New Arkanix stealer blends rapid Python harvesting with stealthier C++ payloads
A newly uncovered infostealer, suspected to be built with the help of a large language model, is targeting victims with Python and C++ variants, each tailored for a different stage of data theft. Kaspersky researchers discovered a stealer dubbed “Arkanix,” which is capable of harvesting credentials, browser data, cryptocurrency, and banking assets from infected machines.…
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Attackers exploit Ivanti EPMM zero-days to seize control of MDM servers
Attackers are actively exploiting two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) to gain unauthenticated control of enterprise mobile device management infrastructure and install backdoors engineered to persist even after organizations apply available patches. “Two critical zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-1281 and CVE-2026-1340) affecting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) are being actively exploited in the wild, affecting…
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Coroot: Open-source observability and APM tool
Coroot is an open-source observability and application performance monitoring tool. The core software, published in Go and accompanied by companion repositories such as coroot-node-agent, focuses on collecting telemetry data across systems. It uses extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology to gather metrics and trace inter-service communications without manual instrumentation of application code. Coroot collects standard…
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Identity verification systems are struggling with synthetic fraud
Fake and expired IDs keep showing up in routine customer transactions, from alcohol purchases to credit card applications. The problem shows up most often in industries that depend on fast onboarding and remote transactions, where identity checks rely heavily on scanned documents and automated workflows. Intellicheck analyzed nearly 100 million identity verification transactions collected through…
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Compromised npm package silently installs OpenClaw on developer machines
A new security bypass has users installing AI agent OpenClaw — whether they intended to or not. Researchers have discovered that a compromised npm publish token pushed an update for the widely-used Cline command line interface (CLI) containing a malicious postinstall script. That script installs the wildly popular, but increasingly condemned, agentic application OpenClaw on…
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University of Mississippi Medical Center Closes Clinics After Ransomware Attack
A ransomware attack has forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) to temporarily close most of its clinics, cancel elective procedures, and shift to manual documentation as IT systems remain offline. The incident, detected in the early hours of Feb. 19, 2026, disrupted UMMC’s network, including its EPIC electronic medical record (EMR) platform. “We…
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PayPal discloses extended data leak linked to Loan App glitch
PayPal disclosed a six-month data breach that exposed sensitive user data, including Social Security numbers, due to a software error. PayPal has disclosed a data breach caused by a software bug in its PayPal Working Capital loan app. The flaw exposed sensitive customer information, including customers’ business contact details (name, email, phone number, address), along…
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Anthropic rolls out embedded security scanning for Claude
Anthropic is rolling out a new security feature for Claude Code that can scan a user’s software codebases for vulnerabilities and suggest patching solutions. The company announced Friday that Claude Code Security will initially be available to a limited number of enterprise and team customers for testing. That follows more than a year of stress-testing…
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PayPal Flaw Exposed Sensitive Data in Lending App for Six Months
PayPal is notifying customers after a software error in its PayPal Working Capital (PPWC) loan application exposed certain personal information, including social security numbers, for nearly six months in 2025. Although the company said its core systems were not breached, the issue resulted in potential unauthorized access to sensitive customer data. “Upon learning about this…
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Barracuda: Firewall Exploits Drive 90% of Ransomware Incidents
Ninety percent of ransomware incidents in 2025 reportedly exploited firewalls via unpatched software or a vulnerable account, according to Barracuda Networks’ newly published Barracuda Managed XDR Global Threat Report. Outdated tools and remote access abuse heighten ransomware exposure According to the cybersecurity company, the findings show how attackers exploit legitimate IT tools such as remote…
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Apache Tomcat Vulnerability Circumvents Access Rules
A vulnerability in Apache Tomcat enables users to bypass certain access controls by leveraging legacy HTTP/0.9 requests. Under specific configurations, the issue could allow attackers to circumvent defined security constraints. “If a security constraint was configured to allow HEAD requests to a URI but deny GET requests, the user could bypass that constraint on GET…
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Over 41% of Popular OpenClaw Skills Found to Contain Security Vulnerabilities
As AI agents become more widely adopted, new research is highlighting security gaps within their supporting ecosystems. A large-scale audit of the OpenClaw skill registry by ClawSecure found that 41.7% of widely used skills contain substantive vulnerabilities, including issues such as command injection and credential exposure. “We audited 2,890+ of the most popular OpenClaw skills…
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Bug Circumvented DLP Controls
Microsoft has confirmed a bug in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat that allowed the AI assistant to summarize emails labeled as confidential, even when sensitivity labels and data loss prevention (DLP) policies were in place. The issue, first identified on Jan. 21, 2026 and tracked internally as CW1226324, impacted Copilot’s “work tab” chat feature. “Without proper…
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AI FOMO: How Pressure to Adopt AI is Outpacing Understanding
AI – or large language models (LLMs) – is introducing new attack surfaces, despite the new capabilities that the technology promises. The new threats it is introducing, including prompt injection, deepfakes, and alignment risks, are huge security concerns at a strategic level. AI FOMO is driving enterprise adoption before risk mitigation At the Genetec Global…
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PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months
PayPal is notifying customers of a data breach after a software error in a loan application exposed their sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, for nearly 6 months last year. […]
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How to Install Joomla on Ubuntu 24.04
In this blog post, we will show you how to install Joomla on Ubuntu 24.04 OS. Joomla is an open-source and free content management system (CMS) written in PHP used for building and managing websites and web applications. Joomla uses the MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework, meaning it separates logic, display, and data to facilitate extensibility. The…
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17 Must-Have Tools for Ubuntu Users in 2026
In this article, you will discover the best Ubuntu apps for beginners, covering everything from productivity tools to entertainment options and AI-powered utilities. Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions for new users, offering an easy-to-use interface and a smooth transition from other operating systems. If you’re new to Ubuntu, you might be…
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Red Card 2.0: INTERPOL busts scam networks across Africa, seizes millions
INTERPOL’s Operation Red Card 2.0 led to 651 arrests across 16 African countries and recovered over $4.3 million from online scams. INTERPOL’s Operation Red Card 2.0, a joint effort involving law enforcement agencies from 16 African countries, resulted in 651 arrests linked to online scam networks. The operation was carried out under the African Joint…
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Is AI killing technology?
We’re living through the single biggest tech disruption in history (and, if not the biggest, definitely the fastest). The AI revolution promises huge productivity gains by automating complex tasks, accelerating scientific breakthroughs in medicine, biotech, materials science, and democratizing access to expertise in critical industries like healthcare and education. People on the leading edge are…
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Uptime Kuma: Open-source monitoring tool
Service availability monitoring remains a daily operational requirement across IT teams, SaaS providers, and internal infrastructure groups. Many environments rely on automated checks and alerting to track outages, latency issues, and service degradation across web applications and network endpoints. Uptime Kuma is an open-source uptime monitoring project that supports this type of operational monitoring through…
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New infosec products of the week: February 20, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Compliance Scorecard, Impart Security, Redpanda, and Virtana. Impart enables safe, in-app enforcement against AI-powered bots Impart Security has launched Programmable Bot Protection, a runtime approach to bot defense that brings detection and enforcement together within the application. Impart makes enforcement…
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New phishing campaign tricks employees into bypassing Microsoft 365 MFA
Another device code phishing campaign that abuses OAuth device registration to bypass multifactor authentication login protections has been discovered. Researchers at KnowBe4 say the campaign is largely targeting North American businesses and professionals by tricking unwitting employees into clicking a link in an email from a threat actor. The message purports to be about a…
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New phishing campaign tricks employees into bypassing Microsoft 365 MFA
Another device code phishing campaign that abuses OAuth device registration to bypass multifactor authentication login protections has been discovered. Researchers at KnowBe4 say the campaign is largely targeting North American businesses and professionals by tricking unwitting employees into clicking a link in an email from a threat actor. The message purports to be about a…
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AI Governance Becomes Critical as Agentic AI Moves Into Production
As agentic AI systems shift from pilot projects to real-world deployment, governance is quickly becoming a board-level concern. Unlike traditional AI models that generate content, agentic systems can autonomously invoke tools, access enterprise data and execute actions across business systems — fundamentally changing the risk equation. “As agentic AI moves from experimentation into real-world deployment,…
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US dominance of agentic AI at the heart of new NIST initiative
This week, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a new listening exercise, the AI Agent Standards Initiative, which it hopes will provide a roadmap for addressing agentic AI hurdles and, it said, ensure that the technology “is widely adopted with confidence.” AI agents, which have now ascended to the status of…
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Texas Sues TP-Link Over Alleged Security Risks and Supply Chain Deception
Texas has filed a lawsuit against networking manufacturer TP-Link Systems, accusing the company of misleading consumers about the security and origins of its routers while exposing users to exploitation by Chinese state-backed threat actors. The complaint alleges that TP-Link marketed its devices as secure and labeled them “Made in Vietnam,” despite sourcing nearly all components…
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MCP Servers Expose a Hidden AI Attack Surface in Enterprise Environments
As enterprises rush to integrate AI assistants into daily workflows, a new and potentially overlooked attack surface is emerging: Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Built to connect AI applications to external tools and data, MCP servers can be exploited to execute code, exfiltrate data and manipulate users — often without visible signs of compromise. Attackers…
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Radware 2026 Global Threat Report Shows DDoS Attacks Jump 168% as Cyber Threats Escalate Across Networks and Applications
Primary driver of DDoS activity remains geopolitical and ideological conflict AI-Driven Bot Attacks Accelerate Worldwide
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better-auth Flaw Allows Unauthenticated API Key Creation
A vulnerability in the better-auth library could allow attackers to take over user accounts without ever logging in. The flaw affects the library’s API keys plugin and enables unauthenticated attackers to mint privileged API keys for arbitrary users. Exploitation of the vulnerability grants “… full authenticated access as the targeted user and, depending on the…
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Keeping Google Play & Android app ecosystems safe in 2025
Posted by Vijaya Kaza, VP and GM, App & Ecosystem Trust The Android ecosystem is a thriving global community built on trust, giving billions of users the confidence to download the latest apps. In order to maintain that trust, we’re focused on ensuring that apps do not cause real-world harm, such as malware, financial fraud,…
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News alert: Link11’s ‘AI Management Dashboard’ makes AI traffic, AI access policies enforceable
FRANKFURT, Feb. 19, 2026, CyberNewswire — Link11 launches its new “AI Management Dashboard”, closing a critical gap in how companies manage AI traffic. Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing internet traffic. But while many companies are already feeling the strain of AI crawlers on their infrastructures, they often lack clarity, reliable data, and operational control. With…
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Cubic Corporation Optimises SAP Support with Rimini Street to Accelerate Modernisation
Adopting a composable ERP strategy with the support of Rimini Street, Cubic maintains SAP ECC as a stable core while pursuing modernisation and automation initiatives across its broader application landscape – without the need for costly, disruptive upgrades
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Ivanti EPMM Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited in the Wild
Two vulnerabilities in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) are being actively exploited in the wild, putting thousands of enterprise mobile management systems at risk. The flaws allow unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code on vulnerable servers, potentially giving them full control over corporate mobile device management (MDM) environments. “Palo Alto Networks Cortex Xpanse has…
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Agentic AI Scales, SecOps Races to Catch Up
Agentic AI is moving from pilot to production inside enterprise IT, but security operations teams are still catching up to the risks introduced by autonomous, tool-using systems. Agentic AI demand grows as security and IT teams grapple with complexity According to McKinsey’s State of AI 2025 report, 23% of organizations say they are already scaling…
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Six flaws found hiding in OpenClaw’s plumbing
Security researchers have uncovered six high-to-critical flaws affecting the open-source AI agent framework OpenClaw, popularly known as a “social media for AI agents.” The flaws were discovered by Endor Labs as its researchers ran the platform through an AI-driven static application security testing (SAST) engine designed to follow how data actually moves through the agentic…
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Police arrests 651 suspects in African cybercrime crackdown
African authorities arrested 651 suspects and recovered over $4.3 million in a joint operation targeting investment fraud, mobile money scams, and fake loan applications. […]
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CredShields Leads OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026 as Governance and Access Failures Drive Onchain Risk
CredShields announces that the OWASP Smart Contract Security Project has officially released the OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026, a risk prioritization framework derived from structured analysis of 2025 smart contract incidents representing hundreds of millions in contract related losses. CredShields, supported by its exploit intelligence platforms including SolidityScan and Web3HackHub, led the structured incident…
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Fake IPTV Apps Spread Massiv Android Malware Targeting Mobile Banking Users
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android trojan called Massiv that’s designed to facilitate device takeover (DTO) attacks for financial theft. The malware, according to ThreatFabric, masquerades as seemingly harmless IPTV apps to deceive victims, indicating that the activity is primarily singling out users looking for the online TV applications. “This new threat,…
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Hackers can turn Grok, Copilot into covert command-and-control channels, researchers warn
Enterprise security teams racing to enable generative AI tools may be overlooking a new risk: attackers can abuse web-based AI assistants such as Grok and Microsoft Copilot to quietly relay malware communications through domains that are often exempt from deeper inspection. The technique, outlined by Check Point Research (CPR), exploits the web-browsing and URL-fetch capabilities…
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Protectt.ai enhances AppProtectt with advanced RASP and AI-driven mobile threat protection
Protectt.ai has launched the latest version of AppProtectt, its mobile application security solution featuring advanced Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) and AI-led behavioral monitoring. Protectt.ai works with leading banking, financial services, insurance, and digital-first enterprises to secure high-risk mobile applications against fraud, tampering, and emerging cyber threats. The latest release introduces enhanced runtime protection capabilities and…
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Notepad++ author says fixes make update mechanism ‘effectively unexploitable’
The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author. Don Ho made the claim this week after the release of version 8.9.2 of Notepad++, which includes a double-lock verification that any download of the tool from this point…
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Chinese hackers exploited zero-day Dell RecoverPoint flaw for 1.5 years
For the past 18 months, a Chinese cyberespionage group has been exploiting a prevously unknown vulnerability in Dell’s RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, a VM disaster recovery solution. The flaw, patched by Dell this week, allows unauthenticated attackers to gain command execution on the underlying OS as root. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-22769, stems from hardcoded…
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Zero-Day in Dell RecoverPoint Enables GRIMBOLT Backdoor
A zero-day vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is being actively exploited to deploy backdoors and pivot deeper into enterprise networks. The flaw has reportedly been abused since at least mid-2024 by a suspected China-linked threat cluster. “Beyond the Dell appliance exploitation, Mandiant observed the actor employing novel tactics to pivot into VMware virtual…
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European Parliament Blocks AI on Lawmakers’ Devices Over Security Fears
The European Parliament has disabled built-in artificial intelligence features on work devices used by lawmakers and their staff, following internal cybersecurity and privacy concerns. The decision was communicated in an internal email seen by Politico, which reported the move on Monday. According to the message from the Parliament’s IT support team, the institution could not…
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Mistral CEO: AI could replace more than half of companies’ software
>More than half of the software purchased by companies today could eventually be replaced by AI, Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch said in an interview with CNBC. The statement comes at a time when software stocks are under pressure due to concerns that AI will undermine SaaS business models. According to Mensch, a major shift…
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Notepad++ patches flaw used to hijack update system
Notepad++ patched a vulnerability that attackers used to hijack its update system and deliver malware to targeted users. Notepad++ fixed a vulnerability that allowed a China-linked APT group to hijack its update mechanism and selectively push malware to chosen targets. In early February, the Notepad++ maintainer revealed that nation-state hackers compromised the hosting provider’s infrastructure,…
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XSS Bug in VS Code Extension Exposed Local Files
A widely used Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension quietly exposed millions of developers to potential local file exfiltration through a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw. The issue affected the official Live Preview extension — downloaded more than 11 million times — and allowed malicious websites to interact with a developer’s localhost environment. An “……
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Apple to kill app support for Intel-based Macs next year
IT admins and decision-makers take note: Apple has confirmed it will terminate Rosetta support for Intel-based apps starting with macOS 28 in 2027. That means any remaining Intel apps your company relies on must be replaced to maintain business continuity and security. It’s also important to note that macOS 26 will be the last OS upgrade to support any…
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News alert: CredShields research informs OWASP’s 2026 ‘Smart Contract Security Priorities Project’
SINGAPORE, Feb. 17th, 2026, CyberNewswire — The OWASP Smart Contract Security Project has released the OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026, a risk prioritization framework developed from structured analysis of real world exploit data observed across blockchain ecosystems in 2025. Crypto protocols continued to experience significant smart contract failures in 2025, with exploit patterns increasingly pointing…
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Windows Admin Center Flaw Opens Door to Privilege Escalation
A vulnerability in Windows Admin Center (WAC) could allow authorized attackers to escalate privileges in enterprise environments. The issue affects WAC version 2.6.4 and has been assigned a CVSS score of 8.8. “Improper authentication in Windows Admin Center allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network,” said Microsoft in its advisory. How the…
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Sonnet 4.6 Explained: Anthropic’s New Mid-Tier Model Is Here
Claude Sonnet 4.6 dropped today, and the headline isn’t just “it’s better.” It’s that developers with early access preferred it over Anthropic’s own top-tier Opus model 59% of the time. That’s the cheaper model beating the expensive one. First up, the tl;dr If you only have two minutes, here’s what you need to know. Sonnet…
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Microsoft Edge 145 lands with major enterprise security upgrades
Microsoft has begun rolling out Edge 145 to the Stable release channel, adding several enterprise-focused security enhancements. The update is being deployed in phases, with some features available through preview and targeted release programs. Edge 145 brings expanded data protection capabilities to Edge for Business. The browser supports cross-tenant enforcement of Intune App Protection Policies…
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Opkey Debuts Design Studio Suite of Agentic AI Capabilities
Opkey, an agentic AI-native platform for cloud application lifecycle management, is launching the Opkey Design Studio to shorten enterprise application implementation timelines. Agentic AI tools automate application implementation to drive SIs forward The Opkey Design Studio is a suite of agentic AI capabilities that extend the company’s platform to automate and standardize enterprise application implementation…