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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5 Smart Software Choices Every Business Should Make
This post will show you 5 smart software choices every business should make… In today’s digital landscape, choosing the right software is crucial for business efficiency and success. The right software not only supports current operations but also paves the way for future scalability and innovation. By carefully selecting tools that align with strategic goals,…
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The Psychology of Digital Risk Assessment
In this post, I will talk about the psychology of digital risk assessment. Every online action, whether it’s logging into your bank or sharing a photo, involves an instant judgment about risk and reward. Most of us don’t realize how much our decisions hinge on subconscious calculations. Our minds weigh the safety of our data,…
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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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Finding Signal in the Noise: Lessons Learned Running a Honeypot with AI Assistance [Guest Diary], (Tue, Feb 24th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Austin Bodolay, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Over the past several months, I have gained practical insight into the challenges of deploying and operating a honeypot, even within a relatively simple environment. This work highlighted how varying hardware, software, and network design—can significantly alter…
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How to lose friends and DDoS people
When the mysterious operator of an internet archiving-service decided to silence a curious Finnish blogger, they didn’t just send a stroppy email – they allegedly weaponised their own CAPTCHA page to launch a DDoS attack, threatened to invent an entirely new genre of AI porn, and tampered with parts of their own archive to smear…
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Smashing Security podcast #456: How to lose friends and DDoS people
When the mysterious operator of an internet archiving-service decided to silence a curious Finnish blogger, they didn’t just send a stroppy email – they allegedly weaponised their own CAPTCHA page to launch a DDoS attack, threatened to invent an entirely new genre of AI porn, and tampered with parts of their own archive to smear…
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Video: Harbor IT on NENS Acquisition and Why the Generalist MSP Model Is Dying
In this episode of Channel Insider: Partner POV, host Katie Bavoso sits down with leaders from Harbor IT to discuss the company’s acquisition of New England Network Solutions, better known as NENS, and what it means for the future of managed services. CFO Hannah Paige and newly appointed CRO Michael Kourkoulakos, the former CEO of…
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Governments issue warning over Cisco zero-day attacks dating back to 2023
Attackers have been exploiting a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s network edge software for at least three years, and the global campaign is ongoing, authorities said across a series of warnings released Wednesday. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an emergency directive about the global attacks and issued joint guidance with the Five…
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Medical device maker UFP Technologies warns of data stolen in cyberattack
American manufacturer of medical devices, UFP Technologies, has disclosed that a cybersecurity incident has compromised its IT systems and data. […]
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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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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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US orders diplomats to push back on data sovereignty
The US government has ordered its diplomats to actively oppose other countries’ attempts to introduce so-called data sovereignty laws that restrict how and where foreign technology companies can store and handle citizens’ data, according to Reuters. In an internal memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the US describes such rules as a threat to…
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Treasury Sanctions Russian Exploit Brokerage
The U.S. government has imposed sanctions on a foreign exploit brokerage accused of purchasing and reselling stolen government cyber tools under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act (PAIPA). This action targets Operation Zero, a Russia-linked exploit broker, and signals a tougher stance against markets that monetize zero-day vulnerabilities tied to national security systems. “If you…
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Secure AI Transcription: Converting Audio Files Into Text Without Compromising Data
In this post, I will talk about secure AI transcription. Also, I will reveal how to convert audio files into text without compromising data. Audio used to stay in the background. Recorded calls, saved interviews, internal discussions — they lived quietly in folders until someone needed to replay them. Now they’re routinely converted into text.…
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Claude Code Flaws Allow Remote Code Execution and API Key Exfiltration
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant, that could result in remote code execution and theft of API credentials. “The vulnerabilities exploit various configuration mechanisms, including Hooks, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and environment variables – executing
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News alert: One Identity fills CFO-COO role to strengthen operating discipline amid expansion
ALISA VIEJO, Calif., Feb. 25, 2026, CyberNewswire—One Identity, a trusted leader in identity security, today announced the appointment of Michael Henricks as Chief Financial and Operating Officer. This decision reflects the continued growth of the business and a focus on aligning financial leadership with operational objectives as One Identity scales. “As One Identity accelerates its growth, the addition of a Chief Financial and Operating Officer will strengthen how we plan, operate, and invest…
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Marquis sues SonicWall over backup breach that led to ransomware attack
Marquis Software Solutions has filed a lawsuit against SonicWall, accusing the cybersecurity company of gross negligence and misrepresentation that allegedly led to a ransomware attack disrupting operations at 74 U.S. banks. […]
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AI-First Businesses are Paying an “AI Speed Tax” when Recovering from Cybersecurity Incidents, according to Fastly’s Global Security Research Report
GUEST RESEARCH: Fast moving AI adopters are paying the price with 100 day longer recovery times, higher breach costs and expanding attack surfaces
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Vulnerabilities grew like weeds in 2025, but only 1% were weaponized in attacks
Would-be attackers spent 2025 swimming in a sea of more than 40,000 newly published vulnerabilities, VulnCheck said in a report released Wednesday, but only 1% of those defects, just 422, were exploited in the wild. As the deluge of vulnerabilities grows every year, and CVSS ratings lose significance for vulnerability management prioritization, some defenders are…
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Beachhead Solutions Unveils ComplianceEZ 2.0 for MSPs
Beachhead Solutions has launched ComplianceEZ 2.0, a major update to its compliance management tool built into the BeachheadSecure for MSPs platform. The company says the new version moves beyond simple documentation and delivers full lifecycle management of cybersecurity compliance, with AI-driven guidance included at no extra cost. Beachhead positions ComplianceEZ 2.0 as MSP-focused GRC alternative…
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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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‘Richter Scale’ Model Measures Magnitude of OT Cyber Incidents
ICS/OT experts have devised a scoring system for rating the severity and effects of cybersecurity events in operational technology environments.
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Across party lines and industry, the verdict is the same: CISA is in trouble
“Decimated.” “Amateur hour.” “Pretty much fallen apart.” “It’s really hard to find something positive to say right now.” It’s been a little more than one year into the second Trump administration, and there’s a large consensus, if not total unanimity, among those who have worked with and for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: It…
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$300 a Month Android Malware ‘Oblivion’ Uses Fake Updates to Hijack Phones
Cybersecurity researchers at Certo reveal Oblivion, a new Android Trojan targeting major brands like Samsung and Xiaomi. It bypasses security to steal passwords and bank codes.
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Turn Your SOC Into a Detection Engine: Rethinking Threat Monitoring
Threat monitoring is treated as one capability among many. Something that sits alongside incident response and threat hunting on an org chart. That framing undersells how central it actually is. Monitoring is the connective tissue of the entire security operation. Every other SOC function depends on it working well. For SOC and MSSP leaders, building effective threat monitoring is not about “more alerts.” It…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Soliton Systems K.K FileZen to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Soliton Systems K.K FileZen to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Soliton Systems K.K FileZen flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-25108 (CVSS v4 score of 8.7), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Soliton Systems K.K. FileZen is a…
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Operation Red Card 2.0 Leads to 651 Arrests in Africa
In the latest operation targeting cybercrime groups, African law enforcement agencies cooperated with Interpol and cybersecurity firms to recover more than USD 4.3 million.
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Boards don’t need cyber metrics — they need risk signals
Security teams live in a world of numbers. Dashboards depict counts of blocked attacks, phishing clicks, vulnerabilities discovered, patches applied, alerts triaged, and incidents closed. Over the past decade, the cybersecurity industry has become adept at measuring activity with increasing precision. Experts say what remains far less consistent is whether those measurements help boards govern…
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Cyber valuations climb as capital concentrates, AI security expands
Venture funding in cybersecurity continued to concentrate in large private rounds at the end of 2025, driving valuations higher across stages. Data from DataTribe shows total capital invested approached $150 billion for the year, with a disproportionate share flowing into fewer than 100 deals. Cybersecurity investment areas (Source: PitchBook) In Q4 alone, fewer than 100…
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CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of FileZen CVE-2026-25108 Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a recently disclosed vulnerability in FileZen to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-25108 (CVSS v4 score: 8.7), is a case of operating system (OS) command injection that could allow an authenticated user to execute
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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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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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Take control: Locking down common endpoint vulnerabilities
Attackers are constantly on the prowl, scoping out vulnerabilities of network-connected devices in your systems. These devices—laptops, desktops, servers, IoT, and more—are like unlocked doors waiting for threat actors to stroll through. And here’s the kicker: many of these vulnerabilities are shockingly common and easily preventable. Let’s break down the weaknesses we most frequently track…
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Ex-L3Harris executive sentenced to 87 months in prison for selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker
An ex-L3 Harris executive was sentenced to over seven years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars. Williams, 39, admitted to two counts of theft of trade secrets in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., last year, acknowledging he took at…
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Know the red flags: Business email compromise signs to look out for
When it comes to cyber threats, business email compromise (BEC) is one of the sneakiest, most costly scams out there. These digital predators don’t rely on brute force, but are patient, tactical, and they exploit one weakness above all: human trust. If you’re in the cybersecurity game, spotting a BEC attack can mean the difference…
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Asimily Expands Channel Enablement With New Partner Tier
Provider of the Next Generation Exposure Management Platform for IoT, OT, and IoMT environments, Asimily, has recently announced the next generation of its global partner strategy, introducing a new partner tier to accelerate high-performing strategic partners and expand enablement across connected ecosystems. Partner program updates include ‘In Flight’ tier The new tier will be called…
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SolarWinds patches four critical Serv-U flaws enabling root access
SolarWinds addressed four critical Serv-U vulnerabilities that could let attackers gain root access to unpatched servers. SolarWinds released updates fixing four critical Serv-U vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution, potentially giving attackers full root access on unpatched servers. Serv-U is a file transfer server software that allows organizations to securely transfer files over networks using…
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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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11 Best MCP Gateways in 2026: In-Depth Comparison
In this post, I will show you the 11 best MCP gateways in 2026. Unlike the AI assistants of just one year ago, AI agents in 2026 don’t just answer questions; they act. AI agents can now connect to your databases, query your internal tools, read and write to your SaaS platforms, and make decisions…
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7 Top ISO 27001 Certification Providers
In this post, I will show you the 7 top ISO 27001 certification providers. Data breaches are something companies must be prepared for, so they are seeking more robust cybersecurity through certifications. ISO 27001 is an international standard that helps organizations strengthen their security protocols. Obtaining an ISO 27001 certification shows that a business is…
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Exabeam Report: AI Key Driver in Cybersecurity Spend
Intelligence and automation enterprise, Exabeam, recently unveiled new findings from its multinational report, From Adoption to Accountability: The New Economics of AI in Cybersecurity. The survey obtained responses from 750 IT decision-makers responsible for security in organizations with 500+ employees across 12 countries. Cybersecurity budgets on the rise as AI alignment struggles to keep up…
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All Covered Launches Managed Vulnerability Service
All Covered, a division of Konica Minolta and a managed IT and managed security services provider, has launched a vulnerability remediation service designed to help organizations continuously identify, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. Announced Feb. 24, the offering responds to growing demand from organizations, particularly in regulated industries such as…
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Exabeam Research: AI Accountability Becomes the New Mandate as Cybersecurity Economics Shift
GUEST RESEARCH: 95% of organisations are increasing cybersecurity budgets in 2026 with AI as the top spending driver despite being the hardest investment to justify
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As Cybersecurity Firms Chase AI, VC Market Skyrockets
Investments in cybersecurity startups took off in 2025, as venture capital firms focused not just on AI-native tech, but talent as well.
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Celebrating Two Years of CSF 2.0!
Celebrate this milestone with us! Email us at csf [at] nist.gov (csf[at]nist[dot]gov) or tag @NISTcyber on X telling us what your favorite CSF 2.0 resource is (or how your organization has benefitted from implementing the CSF 2.0). Today marks two years since the publication of the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0! Published in 2024, the CSF…
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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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CrowdStrike says attackers are moving through networks in under 30 minutes
Cyberattacks reached victims faster and came from a wider range of threat groups than ever last year, CrowdStrike said in its annual global threat report released Tuesday, adding that cybercriminals and nation-states increasingly relied on predictable tactics to evade detection by exploiting trusted systems. The average breakout time — how long it took financially-motivated attackers…
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The Role of Scalable Hosting in Remote Work Environments
In this post, I will talk about the role of scalable hosting in remote work environments. The world has been going into hybrid and remote working and is transforming how businesses are conducted. The working of teams has also transformed as the majority of them don’t work in physical offices; they work in various cities,…
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It’s time to rethink CISO reporting lines
Despite inroads in the C-suite and rising prominence across the business at large, security leaders are still more likely to operate at a remove from the organization’s executive leadership when it comes to reporting structures. According to IANS Research and Artico Search’s 2026 State of the CISO Benchmark Report, 64% of CISOs still report into…
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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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Ad Tech Firm Optimizely Investigates Vishing Incident
Ad tech firm Optimizely is notifying customers after a voice phishing attack led to unauthorized access to some of its internal systems. The company says threat actors obtained limited business contact information but did not access sensitive customer data or disrupt operations. “The threat actor gained access to Optimizely’s systems through a sophisticated voice-phishing attack,…
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Global Chip Supplier Advantest Discloses Cyber Incident
Japanese semiconductor equipment company Advantest has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack after detecting unusual activity inside its corporate network on February 15. The company says an unauthorized third party may have accessed internal systems and deployed ransomware, potentially affecting sensitive data tied to customers or employees. “Preliminary findings appear to indicate that…
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Do New Braunfels Web Designers Offer Fast-Loading Websites?
In this post, I will answer the question – do New Braunfels web designers offer fast-loading websites? Website speed determines success in 2025. When potential customers land on a business website and stare at a loading screen, their patience runs out fast. Research shows that 47% of users expect websites to load in two seconds…
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Wormable XMRig Campaign Uses BYOVD Exploit and Time-Based Logic Bomb
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new cryptojacking campaign that uses pirated software bundles as lures to deploy a bespoke XMRig miner program on compromised hosts. “Analysis of the recovered dropper, persistence triggers, and mining payload reveals a sophisticated, multi-stage infection prioritizing maximum cryptocurrency mining hashrate, often destabilizing the victim
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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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Banana Gun Hits One Million Users: Inside the Crypto Trading Platform That Grew by Putting Execution and Safety First
In the latest development, Banana Gun hits one million users. Crypto trading has changed. The days of logging into a centralized exchange, placing a market order, and waiting are giving way to something faster, more direct, and more demanding. On-chain trading – buying and selling tokens directly on the blockchain without a middleman – now…
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Ransomware, Zero-Days, and Data Breaches Shape This Week’s Cybersecurity Landscape
This week, a Dell vulnerability is being actively exploited, an Apache flaw allows bypass of RBAC, and over 41% of OpenClaw skills are vulnerable. Major Threats & Vulnerabilities Zero-Day Vulnerabilities A zero-day vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint is being actively exploited to deploy web shells and backdoors in VMware environments. This highlights the urgent need for…
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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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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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Leading Semiconductor Supplier Advantest Hit by Ransomware Attack
Advantest, a Japanese specialist in testing computer chips for major semiconductor manufacturers, has deployed incident response protocols following a cybersecurity incident
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Malicious npm Packages Harvest Crypto Keys, CI Secrets, and API Tokens
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what they say is an active “Shai-Hulud-like” supply chain worm campaign that has leveraged a cluster of at least 19 malicious npm packages to enable credential harvesting and cryptocurrency key theft. The campaign has been codenamed SANDWORM_MODE by supply chain security company Socket. As with prior Shai-Hulud attack waves, the malicious…
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The hidden security cost of treating labs like data centers
In this Help Net Security interview, Rich Kellen, VP, CISO at IFF, explains why security teams should not treat OT labs like IT environments. He discusses how compromise can damage scientific integrity and create safety risks that backups cannot fix. Kellen also outlines what “good enough” OT visibility looks like, why compensating controls can backfire,…
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Anthropic unveils Claude Code Security to detect and fix code bugs
Anthropic launches Claude Code Security, an AI tool that scans code for vulnerabilities and suggests how to address them. Anthropic has introduced Claude Code Security, a new AI-powered service designed to scan software codebases for vulnerabilities and recommend fixes. Built into Claude Code, the tool aims to help teams detect and remediate security flaws faster.…
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 564 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. U.S. CISA adds RoundCube Webmail flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog PayPal discloses extended data…
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Hackers Hide Pulsar RAT Inside PNG Images in New NPM Supply Chain Attack
Cybersecurity researchers at Veracode reveal a typosquatting attack that disguises Pulsar RAT as images to bypass Windows security and antivirus programs.
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U.S. CISA adds RoundCube Webmail flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds RoundCube Webmail flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two RoundCube Webmail flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2025-49113 (CVSS score of 9.9) RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability…
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CISA Adds Two Actively Exploited Roundcube Flaws to KEV Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Roundcube webmail software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-49113 (CVSS score: 9.9) – A deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that allows remote code
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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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Why You Need Both Autonomous and Manual Vacuums
In this post, I will show you why you need both autonomous and manual vacuums. For generations, household cleaning was viewed as a singular, monolithic chore. You set aside a Saturday morning, gathered your broom, mop, and bucket, and spent hours scrubbing the entire house. By Sunday afternoon, the floors were already accumulating dust again,…
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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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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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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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AI agents still need humans to teach them
AI agents need skills — specific procedural knowledge — to perform tasks well, but they can’t teach themselves, a new research suggests. The authors of the research have developed a new benchmark, SkillsBench, which evaluates agentic AI performance on 84 tasks across 11 domains including healthcare, manufacturing, cybersecurity and software engineering. The researchers looked at…
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CISA: BeyondTrust RCE flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks
Hackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2026-1731 vulnerability in the BeyondTrust Remote Support product, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns. […]
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Data breach at French bank registry impacts 1.2 million accounts
The French Ministry of Finance has published an announcement informing of a cybersecurity incident that has impacted 1.2 million accounts. […]
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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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ClickFix Campaign Abuses Compromised Sites to Deploy MIMICRAT RAT
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ClickFix campaign that abuses compromised legitimate sites to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) called MIMICRAT (aka AstarionRAT). “The campaign demonstrates a high level of operational sophistication: compromised sites spanning multiple industries and geographies serve as delivery infrastructure, a multi-stage
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How Proxy Servers Work and Why They Have Become a Core Part of Internet Infrastructure
In this post, I will show you how proxy servers work and why they have become a core part of Internet infrastructure. In today’s digital environment, access to information is increasingly determined not by content, but by the route data takes. Industry analysts estimate that a significant portion of internet traffic now passes through intermediary…
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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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PayPal launches latest struggle to get rid of SMS for MFA
When PayPal started emailing customers this month that it was backing off unencrypted SMS for multifactor authentication (MFA) at login, it came with the typical approach-avoidance asterisk. The financial services giant signaled that it was turning the page on the much-maligned authentication method while simultaneously offering no timeline and assuring customers SMS wouldn’t entirely go…
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Applying green energy tax policies to improve cybersecurity
For years, governments have focused only on the stick of compliance when they could leverage the carrot of tax incentives. Theoretically, compliance fines and penalties should act as a deterrent that improves accountability and reduces data breaches. However, many vendors often assume compliance risk rather than securing data effectively. For example, Meta has been the…
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Online Privacy – Why It’s Important And How To Protect It
Our online privacy is important to us, and many don’t even know that we’re being tracked by the apps and sites we use. Proxies can help protect you. The internet is continuously evolving and has become a crucial tool for businesses and individuals. From market research, social, communication, governance, and politics, we are all using…
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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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State Dept. official says post-quantum transition plans will outlive current leadership
A cybersecurity official at the State Department called for the public and private sector to more tightly coordinate plans to transition their systems, devices and data to quantum-resistant encryption algorithms. Gharun Lacy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Cyber and Technology Security Directorate at the Department of State, issued a challenge for cybersecurity defenders to view…
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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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FBI: Threats from Salt Typhoon are ‘still very much ongoing’
A top FBI cyber official said Salt Typhoon, the Chinese cyber espionage group behind the widespread compromise of U.S. telecommunications infrastructure in 2024, continues to pose a broad threat to both America’s private and public sectors. Michael Machtinger, deputy assistant director for cyber intelligence at the FBI, touted improved partnerships between the telecommunications industry and…
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HHS burrows into identifying risks to health sector from third-party vendors
A Department of Health and Human Services official said Thursday that HHS is devoting a lot of attention to the security of third-party service providers after the 2024 Change Healthcare cyberattack. That attack, which is widely regarded as the biggest ever in the sector — including by HHS’s Charlee Hess, who spoke Thursday at CyberTalks…
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ONCD official says Trump administration aims to bolster AI use for defense without increasing risk
The Trump administration wants to boost the use of artificial intelligence for security in a way that doesn’t increase the number of targets for adversaries to attack, a top official with the Office of the National Cyber Director said Thursday. The administration will “promote the rapid implementation of AI enabled cyber defensive tools to detect,…
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PromptSpy Android Malware Abuses Gemini AI to Automate Recent-Apps Persistence
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is the first Android malware that abuses Gemini, Google’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, as part of its execution flow and achieves persistence. The malware has been codenamed PromptSpy by ESET. The malware is equipped to capture lockscreen data, block uninstallation efforts, gather device information, take screenshots,
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Nozomi Networks Labs Report Finds Healthcare Services the Most Targeted Industry in Australia
The latest Nozomi Networks Labs OT & IoT Security Report released today finds healthcare services was the most targeted industry in Australia, followed by manufacturing. During the second half of last year, threat actors increased their usage of generative AI in their activity, attacks against companies in English-speaking countries are increasing in scale and have…
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Evaluating ZeroThreat.ai: A Practical Look at AI-Powered Pentesting for Modern Apps
In this post, we will be evaluating ZeroThreat.ai. Also, we will take a practical look at AI-Powered pentesting for modern apps. After years in the IT and cybersecurity space, I’ve developed a healthy skepticism toward anything labeled “AI-powered pentesting.” Most tools promise intelligence but still behave like scanners, which are loud, shallow, and detached from…
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CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Dell flaw within 3 days
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered government agencies to patch their systems within three days against a maximum-severity Dell vulnerability that has been under active exploitation since mid-2024. […]
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Dragos OT Cybersecurity Report: Adversaries Increase Real-World Impact, Map Control Loops Across Industrial Infrastructure
Three new OT threat groups identified including SYLVANITE linked to VOLTZITE/Volt Typhoon operations; ransomware groups with reach into OT environments surged 49%.
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U.S. CISA adds Dell RecoverPoint and GitLab flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Dell RecoverPoint and GitLab flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Dell RecoverPoint and GitLab flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2021-22175 (CVSS score 6.8) GitLab Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)…
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iTWire TV – We’re Losing the Cyber War: Inside ISACA’s Mission to Build the World’s Largest Cybersecurity Certification Machine
Appointed by the US Department of War as the global credentialing authority for CMMC, ISACA’s Chief Global Strategy Officer Chris Dimitriadis warns that AI is weaponising cybercrime faster than the world can defend against it – and says a trained workforce is the only answer.
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VIDEO – We’re Losing the Cyber War: Inside ISACA’s Mission to Build the World’s Largest Cybersecurity Certification Machine
Appointed by the US Department of War as the global credentialing authority for CMMC, ISACA’s Chief Global Strategy Officer Chris Dimitriadis warns that AI is weaponising cybercrime faster than the world can defend against it – and says a trained workforce is the only answer.