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Today's cyber news highlights several key threats and trends. Hackers are increasingly targeting AI systems, as demonstrated by a recent incident where credentials were stolen, leading to $740,000 in unauthorized compute usage for a cloud provider. Microsoft researchers revealed vulnerabilities in AI models, showing that attackers can create backdoors by manipulating just a few neurons. Additionally, recent updates for Slackware address critical security issues, including remote code execution and memory errors in their httpd and Git packages. The ongoing risk of vehicle hacking is underscored by a podcast discussing how attackers can gain control over car systems. As cyber threats evolve, organizations must prioritize robust security measures against these emerging vulnerabilities.
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Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products to conduct a wide range of malicious actions, including deploying VShell andÂ
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVS...
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Axonius lays off employees, Abu Dhabi conference data leak, HackerOne addresses AI concerns.
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Mercredi 18 février 2026, la CFDT a confirmé avoir été la cible d'une cyberattaque ayant conduit à l'exfiltration de données au sujet de ses adhérents.
Le post La CFDT victime d’une fuite de données qui affecte ses adhérents a été publié sur IT-Connect.
The "shift left" approach has increased pressure on developers, as speed demands override security checks in modern CI pipelines. Qualys explains how analyzing 34,000 public container images revealed 7.3% were malicious and why security must be enforced at the infrastructure layer by default. [...]
Polish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentence Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko will spend the next five years behind bars in the US for his involvement in helping North Korean IT workers secure fraudulent employment.…
In yet another software supply chain attack, the open-source, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cline CLI was updated to stealthily install OpenClaw, a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that has become exceedingly popular in the past few months.
"On February 17, 2026, at 3:26 AM PT...
Behind a basic age check, researchers say Persona’s system runs extensive identity, watchlist, and adverse-media screening.
Elon Musk’s social media platform X has filed an appeal at the European Union’s General Court challenging a €120 million ($141 million) fine imposed by the European Commission.
Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort Building a startup entirely on European infrastructure sounds like a nice sovereignty flex right up until you actually try it and realize the real price gets paid in time, tinkering, a...
The Cloudflare API has over 2,500 endpoints. Exposing each one as an MCP tool would consume over 2 million tokens. With Code Mode, we collapsed all of it into two tools and roughly 1,000 tokens of context.
Let's Encrypt s'apprête à déployer une toute nouvelle méthode de validation pour l'obtention des certificats TLS : le DNS-PERSIST-01. Voici ce que ça change.
Le post Let’s Encrypt dévoile DNS-PERSIST-01 : une nouvelle méthode pour obtenir des certificats TLS a été publié sur IT-Connect.
Active Directory’s "dynamic objects" feature offers attackers a perfect evasion cloak. These objects automatically self-destruct without a trace, so they allow adversaries to bypass quotas, pollute access lists, and persist in the cloud, leaving forensic investigators with nothing to analyze.
Key...
Read on for an exhaustive comparison of the technical architectures of Claude Opus 4.5 and 4.6, an evaluation of their performance across industry-standard benchmarks, and an outline of Sonar’s focus on embracing agentic development.
The post The intelligence paradox: Why Claude Opus 4.6 requires ve...
AI chatbots may deliver unequal answers depending on who is asking the question. A new study from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds that LLMs provide less accurate information, increase refusal rates, and sometimes adopt a different tone when users appear less educated, less fluent...
The sixth installment in our series, where we examine a critical tension in modern development: the tricky relationship between AI and code security.
The post Managing the tricky relationship between AI and code security appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Russia’s intensifying cyberattacks, sabotage and covert influence operations across Europe show the Kremlin is preparing for a prolonged confrontation with the West, Dutch intelligence agencies said.
Originally published at DMARC Providers in 2026: Top DMARC Services and Enterprise Solutions by EasyDMARC.
Email security requirements are getting stricter every year. ...
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Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- Cryptographic API;
- SMB network file system;
- io_uring subsystem;
(CVE-2025-38561, CVE-2025-39698, CVE-2025-40...
A RAT masquerading as legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software is being sold to cybercriminals as a service, Proofpoint researchers recently discovered. The fake RMM tool, called TrustConnect, was being marketed via an LLM-created website parked on trustconnectsoftware[.]com, suppo...
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. [...]