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Google Disrupts UNC2814 GRIDTIDE Campaign After 53 Breaches Across 42 Countries 2026-02-25 at 20:44 By Google on Wednesday disclosed that it worked with industry partners to disrupt the infrastructure of a suspected China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as UNC2814 that breached at least 53 organizations across 42 countries. “This prolific, elusive actor has a long […]

Hardly anybody bought Samsung’s last smartphones for AI. It hopes this year’s models change that 2026-02-25 at 20:13 By Simon Sharwood But only Qualcomm can power the most alluring features Just 20 percent of punters who bought Samsung’s 2025 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, cited AI as the main reason for their purchase. With […]

Claude Code Flaws Allow Remote Code Execution and API Key Exfiltration 2026-02-25 at 19:47 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant, that could result in remote code execution and theft of API credentials. “The vulnerabilities exploit various configuration mechanisms, including Hooks, Model Context Protocol […]

Trump’s message for big tech with energy-hungry AI projects: Build your own power plants! 2026-02-25 at 19:05 By Thomas Barrabi President Trump said he has told tech companies they’ll need to build their own power plants to support artificial intelligence development – a move that comes as he looks to ease energy costs for ordinary […]

Fake ‘interview’ repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware 2026-02-25 at 19:04 By Connor Jones Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic Next.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed malicious repositories disguised as legitimate projects, according to Microsoft, which said a limited set of those repos were […]

Strategies for Security Leaders in the Midst of Skill Shortages 2026-02-25 at 19:04 By In this episode of Lock It Down with Security Magazine, Chief Security & Trust Officer Kory Daniels shares how security leaders struggling with skill shortages can make strategic tradeoffs to lessen their team’s burden. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe […]

Microsoft boss on AI content: ‘Nobody wants anything that is sloppy’ 2026-02-25 at 18:39 By Richard Speed Sometimes the ‘S’ word slips through even the best media training Is it OK to say “slop” again? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella took to the stage on the London leg of the company’s AI tour and said the […]

Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia 2026-02-25 at 18:26 By Connor Jones Former Trenchant manager profited millions from cyber tools reserved for the US The former general manager of L3Harris’s cyber arm will spend the next seven years behind bars for selling trade secrets to Russia.… This article is an excerpt […]

Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost 2026-02-25 at 18:26 By Richard Speed Orbit decay accelerates as solar activity rises, with no approved mission yet to raise the telescope’s altitude A newly released plot of the Hubble Space Telescope’s altitude shows just how quickly the observatory has […]

Top 5 Ways Broken Triage Increases Business Risk Instead of Reducing It 2026-02-25 at 18:25 By Triage is supposed to make things simpler. In a lot of teams, it does the opposite. When you can’t reach a confident verdict early, alerts turn into repeat checks, back-and-forth, and “just escalate it” calls. That cost doesn’t stay […]

SLH Offers $500–$1,000 Per Call to Recruit Women for IT Help Desk Vishing Attacks 2026-02-25 at 18:25 By The notorious cybercrime collective known as Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH) has been observed offering financial incentives to recruit women to pull off social engineering attacks. The idea is to hire them for voice phishing campaigns targeting IT […]

Malicious NuGet Packages Stole ASP.NET Data; npm Package Dropped Malware 2026-02-25 at 18:25 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four malicious NuGet packages that are designed to target ASP.NET web application developers to steal sensitive data. The campaign, discovered by Socket, exfiltrates ASP.NET Identity data, including user accounts, role assignments, and permission mappings, as well as […]

Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API ‘in one week’ with AI 2026-02-25 at 18:14 By Tim Anderson Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in with a new open source build tool A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic’s Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.… […]

Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother 2026-02-25 at 17:31 By Liam Proven While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security It’s not the only new feature in Firefox 148 yet one thing is very definitely the big news: the global off switch for its AI features that the company announced […]

Execs love AI, just not enough to pay for user training 2026-02-25 at 17:24 By Dan Robinson Research points to skills gaps and weak oversight as barriers to return on investment Just 4 percent of businesses achieved a return on their AI investments, yet rather than admit AI isn’t living up to early expectations, a […]

Worried Europeans can now cut Azure’s phone cord completely 2026-02-25 at 15:20 By Richard Speed As transatlantic tensions rattle nerves, Microsoft offers a digital bunker to the sufficiently paranoid Azure Local can now run fully disconnected with no cloud connectivity, Microsoft confirmed at the London leg of its AI tour.… This article is an excerpt […]

SolarWinds Patches 4 Critical Serv-U 15.5 Flaws Allowing Root Code Execution 2026-02-25 at 15:07 By SolarWinds has released updates to address four critical security flaws in its Serv-U file transfer software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The vulnerabilities, all rated 9.1 on the CVSS scoring system, are listed below – […]

Defense Contractor Employee Jailed for Selling 8 Zero-Days to Russian Broker 2026-02-25 at 15:07 By A 39-year-old Australian national who was previously employed at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris has been sentenced to a little over seven years in prison for selling eight zero-day exploits to Russian exploit broker Operation Zero in exchange for millions of […]

Wynn Resorts takes attacker’s word for it that stolen staff data was deleted 2026-02-25 at 14:39 By Connor Jones Security pros question assurances as company offers staff credit monitoring Wynn Resorts has confirmed that employee data was stolen from its servers, and is taking the hackers’ word that they’ve since deleted it.… This article is […]

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and ‘fully conscious’ 2026-02-25 at 14:30 By Liam Proven It’s not chatbot psychosis, it’s ‘math and engineering and neuroscience’ The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]