The pager doesn’t care why production is burning. A compromised credential chain triggering mass file encryption demands the same midnight scramble as a misconfigured load balancer taking down the payment gateway. Yet most organizations still maintain separate playbooks, separate escalation…
Deutsche Bahn back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes
National rail bookings and timetables disrupted for nearly 24 hours If you wanted to book a train trip in Germany recently, you would have been out of luck. The country’s national rail company says that its services were disrupted for…
Booking.com Phishing Campaign Hijacks Hotel Accounts to Defraud Guests
A multi-stage Booking.com phishing campaign is hijacking hotel accounts to defraud guests through convincing payment scams. The post Booking.com Phishing Campaign Hijacks Hotel Accounts to Defraud Guests appeared first on eSecurity Planet. This article has been indexed from eSecurity Planet…
Cybercrime Goes Corporate: Huntress Report Reveals Rise of Scalable, Stealth-First Attacks
Cybercriminals are no longer lone hackers exploiting flashy zero-days; they are running streamlined, profit-driven operations that mirror legitimate businesses. That’s the key takeaway from the newly released Huntress 2026 Cyber Threat Report, which exposes how organised cybercrime groups are standardising…
Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities
State disputes the company’s claim that its routers are made in Vietnam TP-Link is facing legal action from the state of Texas for allegedly misleading consumers with “Made in Vietnam” claims despite China-dominated manufacturing and supply chains, and for marketing…
Engineering for the Inevitable: Managing Downstream Failures in Security Data Pipelines
Learn how to prevent 50% of detection failures caused by log delivery chain issues. Master persistent queuing, schema drift mitigation, and automated recovery for zero data loss SOC operations. The post Engineering for the Inevitable: Managing Downstream Failures in Security…
Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist’s Phone in Police Custody
New research from the Citizen Lab has found signs that Kenyan authorities used a commercial forensic extraction tool manufactured by Israeli company Cellebrite to break into a prominent dissident’s phone, making it the latest case of abuse of the technology…
A Vast Trove of Exposed Social Security Numbers May Put Millions at Risk of Identity Theft
A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals appear to have not yet exploited. This article has been indexed from Security Latest Read the original article: A Vast Trove of Exposed…
Conduent Data Breach Expands to Tens of Millions of Americans
A massive data breach at Conduent, a leading government technology contractor, has escalated dramatically, now affecting tens of millions of Americans across multiple states. Initially detected in January 2025, the intrusion originated from an unauthorized access on October 21,…
Zero Trust Switching: Why Firewalls Alone Can’t Secure AI Workloads
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How to Build Permission-Aware Retrieval That Doesn’t Leak Across Teams
LLM assistants or chatbots are very good at connecting the dots, which is exactly why they can be dangerous in multi-team organizations. A PM from team A asks, ‘Why did the churn rate spike last Wednesday?’ The assistant retrieves and…
Betterment data breach might be worse than we thought
This breach now appears far more serious. The leaked data includes rich personal and financial details that phishers could use. This article has been indexed from Malwarebytes Read the original article: Betterment data breach might be worse than we thought
Substack Breach May Have Leaked Nearly 700,000 User Details Online
Substack says hackers accessed user emails, phone numbers, and internal metadata in October 2025, with a database of 697,313 records later posted online. The post Substack Breach May Have Leaked Nearly 700,000 User Details Online appeared first on TechRepublic. This…
German train line back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes
National rail bookings and timetables disrupted for nearly 24 hours If you wanted to book a train trip in Germany recently, you would have been out of luck. The country’s national rail company says that its services were disrupted for…
London Boroughs Struggle to Restore Services After November Cyber Attack
A cyber intrusion identified on November 24, 2025 has disrupted essential local authority services in two central London boroughs, freezing parts of the property market and delaying administrative functions. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Council…
ISPsystem VMs Hijacked for Silent Ransomware Distribution
The evolution of cybercrime has led to infrastructure becoming less of a matter of ownership and more of a convenience issue. As opposed to investing time and resources in the construction and maintenance of dedicated command-and-control servers, ransomware operators…
Grandstream GXP1600 VoIP Phones Exposed to Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Grandstream GXP1600 series of VoIP phones that could allow an attacker to seize control of susceptible devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2329, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of…
Identity and supply chain need more attention, risk intelligence firm says
Roughly a third of attacks now use stolen credentials, according to the company’s latest report. This article has been indexed from Cybersecurity Dive – Latest News Read the original article: Identity and supply chain need more attention, risk intelligence firm…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-02-18 18h : 11 posts
11 posts were published in the last hour 16:36 : Cyber Risk Is a Board Responsibility and Training Is the Missing Link 16:36 : ClawHavoc Poisoned OpenClaw’s ClawHub with 1,184 Malicious Skills, Enabling Data Theft and Backdoor Access 16:36 :…
Cyber Risk Is a Board Responsibility and Training Is the Missing Link
Boards now view cybersecurity as a business and financial priority, yet many lack the training to govern cyber risk effectively. Here’s why board-level education matters more than ever. This article has been indexed from Industry Trends & Insights Read…
ClawHavoc Poisoned OpenClaw’s ClawHub with 1,184 Malicious Skills, Enabling Data Theft and Backdoor Access
A large-scale supply chain poisoning campaign that targeted OpenClaw’s official marketplace, ClawHub, distributing 1,184 malicious “Skills” designed to steal data and establish backdoor access on compromised systems. OpenClaw, a fast-growing open-source AI agent platform, enables users to install plugin-like Skills…
OpenClaw AI Framework v2026.2.17 Released with Anthropic Model Support and Security Fixes
OpenClaw has released version 2026.2.17 with significant enhancements, including support for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 model. Expanded context windows, though the update arrives as the AI agent framework continues facing scrutiny over critical security vulnerabilities involving credential theft and remote…
New SysUpdate Variant Malware Discovered and Tool Developed to Decrypt Encrypted Linux C2 Traffic
A new variant of the SysUpdate malware has emerged as a sophisticated threat targeting Linux systems with advanced command-and-control (C2) encryption capabilities. The malware was discovered during a Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) engagement when security teams detected the…
How synthetic data can help solve AI’s data crisis
As AI demand outpaces the availability of high-quality training data, synthetic data offers a path forward. We unpack how synthetic datasets help teams overcome data scarcity to build production-ready AI. The post How synthetic data can help solve AI’s data…