Hong Kong to grant first stablecoin issuer licenses in March: Report 2026-02-02 at 12:26 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Hong Kong’s monetary authority said only a small number of stablecoin issuers will be approved initially, as application reviews near completion. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Infrastructure cyberattacks are suddenly in fashion. We can buck the trend 2026-02-02 at 12:26 By Rupert Goodwins Don’t be scared of the digital dark – learn how to keep the lights on Opinion Barely a month into 2026, electrical power infrastructure on two continents has tested positive for cyberattacks. One fell flat as attempts to
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Notepad++ Official Update Mechanism Hijacked to Deliver Malware to Select Users 2026-02-02 at 11:52 By The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility’s update mechanism to redirect update traffic to malicious servers instead. “The attack involved [an] infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for
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Microsoft’s ‘atypical’ emergency Windows patches are becoming awfully typical 2026-02-02 at 11:35 By Richard Speed Administrators sigh: OOBs, they did it again Opinion Microsoft has had a bad start to the year. Two out-of-band updates in the weeks after the first Patch Tuesday of 2026 rattled administrators’ already shaky faith in the company. But are
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Odds that Bitcoin slips below $65K climb to 72% on Polymarket 2026-02-02 at 11:21 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Bitcoin bets on Polymarket show elevated downside risk in 2026 as analysts point to bearish trends and tight US liquidity conditions. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Notepad++ Supply Chain Hack Conducted by China via Hosting Provider 2026-02-02 at 11:20 By Eduard Kovacs The likely state-sponsored threat actor had access to the hosting provider for months and targeted only certain Notepad++ customers. The post Notepad++ Supply Chain Hack Conducted by China via Hosting Provider appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an
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Ransomware Without Encryption: Why Pure Exfiltration Attacks Are Surging 2026-02-02 at 10:07 By With pure exfiltration, businesses don’t realize they’re a victim until it’s too late. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source
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Average Bitcoin ETF buy underwater as investors pull $2.8B in 2 weeks 2026-02-02 at 09:10 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Following its weekend rout, Bitcoin dropped to $74,600 on Monday, marking a nine-month low for the cryptocurrency. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Crypto stolen hit $370M in January, nearly quadrupling year on year: CertiK 2026-02-02 at 09:10 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan The amount of crypto stolen in January is also a 214% increase from the month before, with a majority of the value lost due to a single phishing incident. This article is an excerpt from
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Nomura temporarily reduces crypto exposure as Q3 profits drop 2026-02-02 at 09:10 By Cointelegraph by Brian Quarmby Nomura’s CFO, Hiroyuki Moriuchi, reportedly reaffirmed the company’s long-term commitment to digital assets but said it had to manage short-term risks. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Capgemini to sell the biz that works for US government amid criticism of ICE contract 2026-02-02 at 09:10 By Simon Sharwood ‘The nature and scope of this work has raised questions’ says CEO, who swears he couldn’t spot it sooner French consulting and tech services giant Capgemini has decided to offload Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS),
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Where NSA zero trust guidance aligns with enterprise reality 2026-02-02 at 09:10 By Sinisa Markovic The NSA has published Phase One and Phase Two of its Zero Trust Implementation Guidelines, providing structured guidance for organizations working to implement zero trust cybersecurity practices. The documents are part of a larger series designed to support adoption of
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Open-source AI pentesting tools are getting uncomfortably good 2026-02-02 at 09:10 By Help Net Security AI has come a long way in the pentesting world. We are now seeing open-source tools that can genuinely mimic how a human tester works, not just fire off scans. I dug into three of them, BugTrace-AI, Shannon, and CAI,
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What boards need to hear about cyber risk, and what they don’t 2026-02-02 at 09:10 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Rishi Kaushal, CIO at Entrust, explains how security leaders should talk to the board about cyber risk. He focuses on what matters to board members and what does not. He
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Pompelmi: Open-source secure file upload scanning for Node.js 2026-02-02 at 09:10 By Sinisa Markovic Software teams building services in JavaScript are adding more layers of defense to handle untrusted file uploads. An open-source project called Pompelmi aims to insert malware scanning and policy checks directly into Node.js applications before files reach storage or business logic.
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eScan Antivirus Update Servers Compromised to Deliver Multi-Stage Malware 2026-02-02 at 09:09 By The update infrastructure for eScan antivirus, a security solution developed by Indian cybersecurity company MicroWorld Technologies, has been compromised by unknown attackers to deliver a persistent downloader to enterprise and consumer systems. “Malicious updates were distributed through eScan’s legitimate update infrastructure, resulting
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Buterin pitches DAOs, prediction markets to reward content creators 2026-02-02 at 07:21 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Vitalik Buterin said the current creator token model favors those already popular and rewards mass content creation over high-quality content. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Oracle predicts investors poised to pump $50 billion into its cloud this year alone 2026-02-02 at 07:20 By Simon Sharwood Big Red will use debt and equity finance to keep itself in the pink Oracle has revealed it needs to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in cash to fund expansion of its cloud infrastructure,
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AI is flooding IAM systems with new identities 2026-02-02 at 07:20 By Anamarija Pogorelec Most organizations view AI identities through the same lens used for other non-human identities, such as service accounts, API keys, and chatbots, according to The State of Non-Human Identity and AI Security report by the Cloud Security Alliance. AI identities inherit
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Open VSX Supply Chain Attack Used Compromised Dev Account to Spread GlassWorm 2026-02-02 at 07:20 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a supply chain attack targeting the Open VSX Registry in which unidentified threat actors compromised a legitimate developer’s resources to push malicious updates to downstream users. “On January 30, 2026, four established Open
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