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Hundreds of FortiGate Firewalls Hacked in AI-Powered Attacks: AWS

Threat actors relying on AI have been exploiting exposed ports and weak credentials to take over FortiGate devices. The post Hundreds of FortiGate Firewalls Hacked in AI-Powered Attacks: AWS appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Recent RoundCube Webmail Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks

Patched in December 2025, the exploited flaw leads to XSS attacks via the animate tags in SVG documents. The post Recent RoundCube Webmail Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Mississippi Hospital System Closes All Clinics After Ransomware Attack

A ransomware attack forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center to close all of its roughly three dozen clinics around the state and cancel elective procedures. The post Mississippi Hospital System Closes All Clinics After Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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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 code embedded

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PayPal Data Breach Led to Fraudulent Transactions

PayPal blamed an application error for the exposure of customer personal information for nearly 6 months.  The post PayPal Data Breach Led to Fraudulent Transactions appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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MuddyWater Targets MENA Organizations with GhostFetch, CHAR, and HTTP_VIP

The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater (aka Earth Vetala, Mango Sandstorm, and MUDDYCOAST) has targeted several organizations and individuals mainly located across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as part of a new campaign codenamed Operation Olalampo. The activity, first observed on January 26, 2026, has resulted in the deployment of new malware families that share

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Human-related security risks rose 90% in 2025

2025 saw a rise in AI-related security risks.

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41% of Organizations Have Hired a Fake Candidate

Deepfakes are leading to fraudulent job positions and hirings.

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AI-Assisted Threat Actor Compromises 600+ FortiGate Devices in 55 Countries

A Russian-speaking, financially motivated threat actor has been observed taking advantage of commercial generative artificial intelligence (AI) services to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices located in 55 countries. That's according to new findings from Amazon Threat Intelligence, which said it observed the activity between January 11 and February 18, 2026. "No exploitation of FortiGate

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Critical Grandstream Phone Vulnerability Exposes Calls to Interception

The flaw tracked as CVE-2026-2329 can be exploited without authentication for remote code execution with root privileges.  The post Critical Grandstream Phone Vulnerability Exposes Calls to Interception appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security for AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanning

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has begun to roll out a new security feature for Claude Code that can scan a user's software codebase for vulnerabilities and suggest patches. The capability, called Claude Code Security, is currently available in a limited research preview to Enterprise and Team customers. "It scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted

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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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EC-Council Expands AI Certification Portfolio to Strengthen U.S. AI Workforce Readiness and Security

With $5.5 trillion in global AI risk exposure and 700,000 U.S. workers needing reskilling, four new AI certifications and Certified CISO v4 help close the gap between AI adoption and workforce readiness. EC-Council, creator of the world-renowned Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) credential and a global leader in applied cybersecurity education, today launched its Enterprise AI Credential Suite,

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‘Starkiller’ Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA

Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abuse activists and security firms. But a stealthy new phishing-as-a-service offering lets customers sidestep both of these pitfalls: It uses cleverly disguised links to load the target brand's real website, and then acts as a relay between the target and the legitimate site -- forwarding the victim's username, password and multi-factor authentication (MFA) code to the legitimate site and returning its responses.

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The 25 Most Vulnerable Passwords of 2026

Research reveals the most insecure passwords of 2026. 

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NIST’s Quantum Breakthrough: Single Photons Produced on a Chip

NIST’s single photon chip will likely make QKD an option for a wider range of companies.  The post NIST’s Quantum Breakthrough: Single Photons Produced on a Chip appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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BeyondTrust Flaw Used for Web Shells, Backdoors, and Data Exfiltration

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 and  The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score: 9.9), allows attackers to execute operating system commands in the context of the

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In Other News: Ransomware Shuts US Clinics, ICS Vulnerability Surge, European Parliament Bans AI

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Axonius lays off employees, Abu Dhabi conference data leak, HackerOne addresses AI concerns. The post In Other News: Ransomware Shuts US Clinics, ICS Vulnerability Surge, European Parliament Bans AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Cline CLI 2.3.0 Supply Chain Attack Installed OpenClaw on Developer Systems

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, an unauthorized party used a compromised npm publish token to publish an update to Cline CLI

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Cybercrime Magazine Releases Its First YouTube Short, More On The Way

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Feb. 20, 2026 –Watch the YouTube video The award-winning Cybercrime Magazine YouTube Channel released its first Short last month and the video has more than 720,000 Views. In less than two minutes, our host Taylor Fox The post Cybercrime Magazine Releases Its First YouTube Short, More On The Way appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.