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Lazarus Group Uses Medusa Ransomware in Middle East and U.S. Healthcare Attacks 2026-02-24 at 16:42 By The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group (aka Diamond Sleet and Pompilus) has been observed using Medusa ransomware in an attack targeting an unnamed entity in the Middle East, according to a new report by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat […]

APT28 Targeted European Entities Using Webhook-Based Macro Malware 2026-02-24 at 16:42 By The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT28 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting specific entities in Western and Central Europe. The activity, per S2 Grupo’s LAB52 threat intelligence team, was active between September 2025 and January 2026. It has been

Anthropic Says Chinese AI Firms Used 16 Million Claude Queries to Copy Model 2026-02-24 at 16:42 By Anthropic on Monday said it identified “industrial-scale campaigns” mounted by three artificial intelligence (AI) companies, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, to illegally extract Claude’s capabilities to improve their own models. The distillation attacks generated over 16 million exchanges

Vitalik sells 17K ETH in one month after earmarking $45M for privacy 2026-02-24 at 16:12 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Arkham data shows the Ethereum co-founder’s attributed wallets fell from about 241,000 ETH to 224,000 ETH this month. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Solo Bitcoin miner bags over $200K block reward using rented hashrate 2026-02-24 at 16:12 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai A solo Bitcoin miner hit a rare jackpot of over $200,000 after validating a block through just $75 worth of rented hashrate. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool’s Day 2026-02-24 at 16:12 By Dan Robinson No, customers aren’t laughing either as pressure from memory shortages bites Hosting biz Hetzner, one of Europe’s largest datacenter operators, is warning customers that prices are scheduled to jump by as much as 50 percent from

UK data watchdog fines Reddit £14.47M for letting kids slip past the gate 2026-02-24 at 15:37 By Connor Jones Social media giant retorts it doesn’t want to collect ‘private’ data, and plans to appeal The UK’s data protection regulator has fined social media giant Reddit £14.47 million ($19.5 million) over its use of children’s data.…

Chasing the dream? Your wearable data may actually be making your sleep worse 2026-02-24 at 14:59 By Kyra Breslin For Leah Martin, a 48-year-old attorney and mother, running on three to five hours of sleep felt normal until headaches and fatigue made her realize she wasn’t performing at her best. This article is an excerpt

Stablecoin stagnation, tariffs a headwind for Bitcoin prices, analysts say 2026-02-24 at 14:45 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Tariff shocks led to a capital rotation from crypto into precious metals and tokenized commodities, as analysts warn that the thin crypto market liquidity is limiting a wider recovery. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

KDE Plasma 6.6 isn’t forcing systemd but the arguments rage on 2026-02-24 at 14:30 By Liam Proven BSD support improves, FreeBSD eyes a desktop option, and the init wars refuse to die The latest KDE desktop environment is out. Among other things, it comes with a pledge that it won’t require systemd, and this version

Identity Prioritization isn’t a Backlog Problem – It’s a Risk Math Problem 2026-02-24 at 13:58 By Most identity programs still prioritize work the way they prioritize IT tickets: by volume, loudness, or “what failed a control check.” That approach breaks the moment your environment stops being mostly-human and mostly-onboarded. In modern enterprises, identity risk is

Korean cops charge teens over bike hire breach that exposed data on 4.62M riders 2026-02-24 at 13:53 By Connor Jones Public prosecutor mulls sentencing following investigations into two separate attacks Two South Korean teenagers were this week charged with breaching Seoul’s public bike service, Ttareungyi.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Lazarus Group Uses Medusa Ransomware in Middle East and U.S. Healthcare Attacks 2026-02-24 at 13:52 By The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group (aka Diamond Sleet and Pompilus) has been observed using Medusa ransomware in an attack targeting an unnamed entity in the Middle East, according to a new report by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat

Telegram CEO faces Russia probe over allegations of terrorism facilitation 2026-02-24 at 13:36 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Russian authorities claim the Telegram messenger refused to remove 155,000 channels flagged for illegal content, according to multiple media reports. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

West Midlands Police earn red card over Copilot’s imaginary football match 2026-02-24 at 13:32 By Carly Page Parliament committee finds AI BS helped shape a real-world decision UK Parliament has delivered the official postmortem on West Midlands Police’s Copilot saga, and it reads like a case study in how not to mix generative AI with

Intel backs SambaNova’s $350M bid to challenge GPUs in AI inference 2026-02-24 at 13:00 By Tobias Mann Upstart’s 5th-gen RDU aims to undercut Nvidia’s B200 on speed and cost AI infrastructure company SambaNova has raised $350 million to advance its dataflow architecture, which it pitches as an alternative to GPU-based AI systems.… This article is

North Korean Lazarus Group Now Working With Medusa Ransomware 2026-02-24 at 13:00 By Threat Hunter Team North Korean attackers continuing to mount extortion attacks against the U.S. healthcare sector despite indictment. This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Hashgraph Group launches Hedera-based tool for EU digital product passports 2026-02-24 at 12:57 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Hashgraph has launched a blockchain-based supply-chain traceability solution ahead of the EU’s Digital Product Passport requirements, some of which take effect beginning in 2027. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

UK tech hit by double trouble: Fewer foreign techies amid skills squeeze 2026-02-24 at 12:15 By Dan Robinson Visa applications down, executives emigrating, and AI blamed for the rest The number of international workers applying for a visa to work in the UK’s tech sector dropped 11 percent between Q2 and Q3 2025, and was

AI-Generated Image-Based Harm Is Becoming a Security Issue — Organizations Must Prepare 2026-02-24 at 12:00 By AI-generated manipulated images are getting easier to create, harder to detect, and faster to distribute. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source