A sophisticated cryptocurrency scam campaign is currently targeting users across Asia, with a heavy and specific focus on Japan. This operation uniquely combines two distinct fraud models into a single, highly effective attack vector: malvertising and “pig butchering.” By blending…
NDSS 2025 – Try to Poison My Deep Learning Data? Nowhere To Hide Your Trajectory Spectrum!
Session 12D: ML Backdoors Authors, Creators & Presenters: Yansong Gao (The University of Western Australia), Huaibing Peng (Nanjing University of Science and Technology), Hua Ma (CSIRO’s Data61), Zhi Zhang (The University of Western Australia), Shuo Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University),…
Microsoft Patches Security Flaw That Exposed Confidential Emails to AI
Microsoft Corp. confirmed it is addressing a significant security lapse that allowed its Copilot AI to bypass privacy protections and summarize users’ confidential emails without authorization. The bug, which has persisted since late January, effectively ignored data loss prevention (DLP)…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-02-18 21h : 4 posts
4 posts were published in the last hour 19:34 : The Lock, Not the Alarm: How Palo Alto’s Koi Acquisition Rewrites Endpoint Security 19:22 : How to evaluate NGFW products to strengthen cybersecurity 19:22 : XSS Bug in VS Code…
The Lock, Not the Alarm: How Palo Alto’s Koi Acquisition Rewrites Endpoint Security
The acquisition of Koi Security isn’t just a product play — it’s a declaration that the agentic era has created an entirely new threat surface, and the vendor who governs it first will own the next decade of enterprise security.…
How to evaluate NGFW products to strengthen cybersecurity
<p>For years, organizations have relied on traditional firewalls as their first and best line of defense against unauthorized access to their systems. The threat landscape, however, has changed dramatically. Hybrid working models, SaaS platforms and cloud data have blurred the…
XSS Bug in VS Code Extension Exposed Local Files
An XSS flaw in the VS Code Live Preview extension exposed developers’ local files and credentials through the localhost server. The post XSS Bug in VS Code Extension Exposed Local Files appeared first on eSecurity Planet. This article has been…
CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2021-22175 GitLab Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability CVE-2026-22769 Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (RP4VMs) Use of Hard-coded Credentials Vulnerability These types…
From Clawdbot to OpenClaw: Practical Lessons in Building Secure Agents
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Why CEOs’ AI Hype Really Isn’t Landing with Employees
Read about the disconnect between CEO enthusiasm for AI and employee perception of its value, and learn how to build communication that moves adoption forward. This article has been indexed from Blog Read the original article: Why CEOs’ AI Hype…
Firebase Misconfiguration Exposes 300M Messages From Chat & Ask AI Users
A technical mistake in the popular Chat & Ask AI app has left 300 million private messages from 25 million users exposed online. Discover what happened and how you can protect your personal data when using AI chatbots. This article…
Fraudster hacked hotel system, paid 1 cent for luxury rooms, Spanish cops say
‘First time we have detected a crime using this method,’ cops say Spanish police arrested a hacker who allegedly manipulated a hotel booking website, allowing him to pay one cent for luxury hotel stays. He also raided the mini-bars and…
Data breach at fintech giant Figure affects close to a million customers
The Figure data breach allowed hackers to steal customer names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Data breach at fintech giant Figure…
Malware Campaign Delivers Remote Access Backdoor and Fake MetaMask Wallet to Steal Cryptocurrency Funds
North Korean threat actors have launched a sophisticated attack campaign targeting IT professionals in cryptocurrency, Web3, and artificial intelligence sectors. The ongoing operation, known as Contagious Interview, deploys remote access backdoors alongside trojanized MetaMask wallet extensions designed to steal digital…
Microsoft 365 Exchange URL Filtering Update Quarantines Legitimate Emails as Phishing
A faulty URL filtering rule update in Microsoft Exchange Online triggered a widespread false-positive storm beginning February 9, 2026, causing legitimate email messages to be incorrectly flagged as phishing and quarantined, disrupting email workflows for organizations globally. Microsoft tracked the…
Microsoft 365 Copilot Flaw Allows AI Assistant to Summarize Sensitive Emails
A security flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot is causing the AI assistant to incorrectly summarize email messages protected by confidentiality sensitivity labels, bypassing configured Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies dxposing potentially sensitive organizational data to unauthorized AI processing. The issue,…
ClickFix Abuses Legitimate Homebrew Workflow to Deploy Cuckoo Stealer on macOS for Credential Harvesting
A sophisticated social engineering campaign is targeting macOS developers through fake Homebrew installation pages that deploy Cuckoo Stealer, a comprehensive credential-harvesting malware. The attack leverages the ClickFix technique, which tricks users into executing malicious Terminal commands disguised as legitimate software…
Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Cost Savings’
via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD Permalink The post Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Cost Savings’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. This article has been indexed from Security Boulevard Read the original article: Randall Munroe’s…
5 Essential Internet Security Tips Everyone Should Know
The internet can be a scary place. Every day, I hear stories about people getting… 5 Essential Internet Security Tips Everyone Should Know on Latest Hacking News | Cyber Security News, Hacking Tools and Penetration Testing Courses. This article has…
From On-Call to On-Guard: Hardening Incident Response Against Security-Driven Outages
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…