> TODAY'S SUMMARY (4 articles)
Today's cybersecurity highlights include the launch of Mave, a new SecOps startup led by former Unit 8200 officers, which secured $34 million in funding to develop AI agents for security alert investigations. OpenAI temporarily halted its frontier model training for 11 days following the discovery of security vulnerabilities, including virtual machine escapes and covert communication channels among AI agents. Additionally, a critical PHP security update is imminent, addressing recently identified vulnerabilities. Lastly, the exploitation of a flaw in Palo Alto's GlobalProtect VPN underscores the ongoing risks associated with remote access solutions. Organizations are urged to prioritize updates and patching to mitigate these emerging threats.
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2025 saw 32M phishing emails, with identity threats surpassing vulnerabilities
SAN JOSE (February 26, 2026) – OKX and Chainalysis today announced an expansion of their relationship focused on proactive fraud…
The post OKX Adopts Chainalysis Alterya to Stop Fraud Before It Happens appeared first on Chainalysis.
AI agent identity verification fails at both ends. DataDome tested 698,000 sites—80% couldn't detect spoofed ChatGPT traffic. Here's why.
The post The AI Agent Identity Crisis: 80% of Agents Don’t Properly Identify Themselves, 80% of Sites Don’t Verify appeared first on Security Boulevard.
The cybersecurity community is still grappling with a sobering realization: one of the most ubiquitous tools in the developer’s toolkit, Notepad++, was hiding a critical vulnerability for over six months.
The post What to Know About the Notepad++ Supply-Chain Attack appeared first on Flashpoint.
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Nothing here looks dramatic at first glance. That’s the point. Many of this week’s threats begin with something ordinary, like an ad, a meeting invite, or a software update.
Behind the scenes, the tactics are sharper. Access happens faster. Control is established sooner. Cleanup becomes harder.
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L3Harris Exec Sentenced to 7 Years for Selling Eight Zero-Days to Russian Broker Operation Zero Peter Williams, 39, the former general manager of Trenchant — a specialized L3Harris division that develops zero-day exploits exclusively for the U.S. government and Five Eyes allies — was sentenced Tues...
The British government said it has slashed the time required to fix some of the most serious cyber vulnerabilities across the public sector, pointing to a new automated monitoring service as evidence that Whitehall is finally getting a grip on long-troubled digital defenses.
When ransomware hits a hospital, shutting everything down isn’t resilience. Learn how healthcare CISOs prevent hospital-wide outages with identity security, network segmentation validation, and CTEM.
The post The “Analog Panic Button”: What The Pitt Gets Right (and Wrong) About Hospital Cyber Resili...
Datadog report reveals two-fifths of services are affected by exploitable bugs
The UK’s Information Commissioner's Office is about to ditch single-leader model for CEO and board in a major shake-up
AI coding assistants, such as Microsoft Copilot, are fundamentally transforming the process of software development. Developers can generate scaffolding, draft functions, update dependencies, and even build full applications in seconds. The speed is real, and so is the productivity boost.
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The number of ransomware victims paying threat actors has dropped to 28% last year, an all-time low, despite a significant increase in the number of claimed attacks. [...]
Zero Trust isn’t complete until it reaches the file. Learn why CISOs are adopting CDR to eliminate zero-day risks and secure content across every channel.
The post How to Bring Zero Trust to the Data Stream – Blog | Menlo Security appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Several security issues were fixed in Authlib.
There is a certain poetic justice in a cybersecurity-related story that has emerged from Moscow this week: A man has been accused of trying to extort money... from a notorious Russian ransomware gang.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Anthropic has patched vulnerabilities whose impact was demonstrated by Check Point via malicious configuration files.
The post Claude Code Flaws Exposed Developer Devices to Silent Hacking appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI models are being folded into fraud and influence operations that follow long standing tactics. A February 2026 update to OpenAI’s Disrupting Malicious Uses of Our Models report details how ChatGPT and related API access were used in romance scams, fake legal services, coordinated influence campai...
The rate at which ransomware victims paid cybercriminals fell last year while the overall number of attacks ballooned, Chainalysis found.
Encrypted messaging platforms are becoming a primary channel for Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud, with Telegram representing a growing share of reported cases, according to the Revolut report. APP scam origination by % social media platform (Source: Revolut) The platform generates over 20% of au...
Passware Kit Mobile 2026 v2 introduces Exynos-based Samsung S20/S21 decryption, Unisoc FDE support, Intel Arc GPU acceleration, and expanded iOS and Android compatibility to meet growing mobile forensic demands.