AI-Generated Image-Based Harm Is Becoming a Security Issue — Organizations Must Prepare
AI‑generated image‑based harm is emerging as a fast‑moving security threat that targets students, employees and the public, causing immediate reputational and emotional damage. Existing moderation tools and legal frameworks struggle to keep pace with synthetic imagery that can be created and spread within minutes. Organizations often lack a predefined owner, reporting channel, or rapid‑response playbook, leaving HR, security and leadership scrambling. Experts urge clear ownership, swift evidence preservation, and proactive education to mitigate the risk before regulation catches up.
How to Setup Credentials for Windows to Use DigiCert KeyLocker & SMCTL?
The article walks through configuring DigiCert KeyLocker and the Signing Manager Command‑Line Tool (SMCTL) on Windows, detailing required prerequisites such as the DigiCert ONE API key, client certificate, and administrative rights. It compares four credential‑storage methods—Windows Credential Manager, properties file, temporary and...
Building Secure SaaS Architecture: Why Identity Must Be Designed From Day One
SaaS founders must embed identity architecture from day one to avoid the most common breach vectors. A 2025 ReliaQuest study found 44% of cloud workload breaches stem from compromised credentials, underscoring the risk of retrofitting authentication later. Early design choices—separating...
How Discord Can Expose Corporate Data
Discord has become a popular channel for corporate collaboration, supporting everything from developer communities to customer‑support servers. Its fast APIs and webhook integrations let teams create functional workspaces in minutes, but the platform also stores years of code snippets, credentials,...
5G Security: Everything You Should Know for a Secure Network
5G introduces a service‑based, cloud‑native architecture that replaces 4G's hardware‑centric design, bringing modular network functions and edge computing. The standard embeds stronger 256‑bit encryption, privacy‑preserving identifiers, and a new authentication protocol to protect user data and device identities. Additional features...
ZeroDayRAT Targets Android and iOS Devices for Surveillance and Financial Data Theft
ZeroDayRAT, a Malware‑as‑a‑Service kit, now targets both Android and iOS devices, merging real‑time surveillance with direct financial theft through a browser‑based control panel. The service is marketed on Telegram, with subscriptions ranging from $250 per day to $3,500 per month,...
Center for Critical Infrastructure Security Awarded Maryland Cyber & AI Clinic Grant
Maryland’s Department of Labor awarded the Center for Critical Infrastructure Security a Cyber & AI Clinic Grant, part of Gov. Wes Moore’s $4 million AI workforce initiative. The grant funds the launch of the Think Like a CISO Academy, a statewide...
Deserialization Flaw in Ruby Workers That Could Enable Full Compromise
A critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in RubitMQ job workers due to unsafe JSON deserialization with the Ruby Oj library. The flaw allows attackers to craft malicious JSON that triggers object injection, instantiating a Node class whose...
New Partnership Targets Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in South Africa
Obsidian Systems has signed an exclusive reseller and implementation agreement with California‑based BlueFlag Security to bring the latter’s identity‑first SDLC protection platform to South African enterprises and the public sector. The partnership targets developer and machine identities, CI/CD pipelines, and...
CrowdStrike Says Attackers Are Moving Through Networks in Under 30 Minutes
CrowdStrike’s 2025 Global Threat Report reveals that attacker breakout time fell to an average of 29 minutes, a 65% acceleration from the previous year. The speed of initial intrusion to lateral movement is now measured in seconds for the fastest...
LUKS Encryption Compromised on Linux ICS Devices via TPM Bus Sniffing Exploit
Security researchers have disclosed CVE‑2026‑0714, a high‑severity flaw in Moxa’s UC‑1222A Secure Edition industrial computer. The vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to the SPI bus to sniff the TPM2_NV_Read command and capture the LUKS full‑disk encryption key in...
Master Your Passwordless Future: Introducing Thales Authenticator Lifecycle Manager
Thales has launched the Authenticator Lifecycle Manager, a SaaS solution that centralizes enrollment, replacement, and revocation of FIDO2 security keys across enterprises. The platform offers a single‑pane‑of‑glass dashboard, on‑behalf key registration, granular policy controls, and comprehensive audit logging. By automating...
AI Content Generation Systems Face Global Pressure Over Privacy and Deepfake Risks
Data protection authorities from 61 countries issued a joint warning that AI content generation systems, especially those creating realistic images and videos, pose serious privacy and deep‑fake risks. The statement cites recent incidents, such as Grok’s non‑consensual “nudified” images, and...
The Growing Risk of Malicious Apps in a Mobile-First Workplace
Enterprises adopting a mobile‑first workstyle expose a new attack surface through the apps employees use daily. Traditional signature‑based defenses lag behind the rapid proliferation of malicious or poorly coded apps in official and third‑party stores. Behavior‑based mobile threat defense and...
Binding Operational Directive 26-02 Sets Deadlines for Edge Device Replacement
CISA’s Binding Operational Directive 26‑02 obliges all federal agencies to inventory, report, decommission, and replace unsupported edge devices such as firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, and wireless access points. Agencies have three months to identify vulnerable equipment and twelve to eighteen...
What Is Claude Code Security? The New Anthropic AI Tool that Wiped Billions Off Cybersecurity Stocks
Anthropic unveiled Claude Code Security, an AI‑driven tool that scans codebases for vulnerabilities and proposes patches. The system leverages the Claude Opus 4.6 model to reason about data flows and business‑logic errors, reducing false positives through multi‑stage verification. Its launch triggered...
CrowdStrike Hires Joe McPhillips
CrowdStrike appoints veteran Joe McPhillips as JAPAC SMB senior director after a year‑long sabbatical. McPhillips brings more than 30 years of cybersecurity experience, previously serving at SentinelOne, Cylance, Symantec, Intel Security, Riverbed and Commvault. He will build and scale the...
Cybersecurity Jobs Available Right Now: February 24, 2026
The February 24 2026 roundup highlights a surge of cybersecurity openings across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia‑Pacific. Roles span application security, cloud security, product security, and OT/ICS specialties, with many positions emphasizing AI‑driven threat detection and zero‑trust architectures. Companies...
How Smarsh Built an AI Front Door for Regulated Industries — and Drove 59% Self-Service Adoption
Smarsh deployed an AI‑powered support agent, Archie, on Salesforce Agentforce 360 to create a unified front‑door for regulated‑industry customers. The system lets users describe needs in plain language, routing them to the right solution and reducing navigation friction. Early results...
Russia's Kaspersky Fights Western Sanctions
Kaspersky Lab faces a cascade of Western sanctions that have crippled its European and U.S. operations. Germany’s BSI warning has slashed German sales by roughly 80%, while the U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments have barred Kaspersky products and placed senior...
Nvidia Lines up Partners to Boost Security for Industrial Operations
Nvidia announced expanded partnerships with Akamai, Forescout, Palo Alto Networks, Siemens and Xage to embed AI‑driven security into operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS). Using Nvidia BlueField DPUs, the collaborations offload security workloads from host CPUs, enabling hardware‑isolated,...
Government Looks to Clamp Down on Email Attachments Through ‘Cultural Change, Guidance and Technological Solutions’
The UK government’s Digital Service and Innovation Team (DSIT) is moving to curb the use of email attachments by civil servants, urging a shift to cloud‑based file sharing. Ministers highlighted that attachments increase human error and data‑loss risk, and new...
Enhancing Security and Transparency: Introducing Private Notifications for Fastly Maintenance and Incidents
Fastly is rolling out private notifications for security‑related maintenance and incidents, delivered through an SSO‑protected status page and direct Slack alerts. The new system provides service‑specific, detailed updates that remain hidden from the public internet, mitigating information‑leak risks. Integration with...
Android Mental Health Apps with 14.7M Installs Filled with Security Flaws
Security firm Oversecured scanned ten Android mental‑health apps with more than 14.7 million combined installs and uncovered 1,575 vulnerabilities. The flaws include 54 high‑severity and 538 medium‑severity issues such as insecure intent handling, plaintext API keys, and weak random number generation....
More Than Dashboards: AI Decisions Must Be Provable
Enterprise leaders are demanding proof of what AI systems actually did, not just what they were designed to do or what dashboards report. As AI moves into regulated, high‑risk environments, boards and auditors expect decision‑level evidence for each action. The...
Sharon AI, Cisco and NVIDIA Bring AI Factory to Australia
Sharon AI, Cisco and NVIDIA are launching Australia’s first Cisco Secure AI Factory, a sovereign AI infrastructure that keeps data and processing within the country. The facility will run on Cisco UCS servers, Nexus Hyperfabric, and 1,024 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra...
Microsoft Quietly Changed How BitLocker Works — and It Could Lock You Out of Your Own PC
Microsoft’s Windows 11 24H2 update now activates BitLocker automatically during the out‑of‑box experience when a Microsoft account, TPM 2.0, and Secure Boot are present. The encryption starts silently, using the same engine as the Pro‑only BitLocker but without visible controls on Home devices. Because...
Spain Arrests Suspected Hacktivists for DDoSing Govt Sites
Spanish Civil Guard arrested four alleged members of the hacktivist group Anonymous Fénix, accused of orchestrating DDoS attacks on government ministries, political parties, and public institutions in Spain and South America. The campaign intensified after the October 2024 Valencia floods, with...
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Iran's MuddyWater Targets Orgs With Fresh Malware as Tensions Mount
Iran‑linked APT MuddyWater has escalated its campaign, dubbed Operation Olalampo, against organizations in the Middle East and Africa. The group continues to rely on spear‑phishing but also began exploiting public‑facing servers, delivering several previously unseen malware strains such as the...
Your Home Assistant Notifications Aren't as Private as You Think
Home Assistant’s mobile app sends push notifications through Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), meaning the message payload is unencrypted while on Google’s servers. This applies to both Android and iOS devices, as Home Assistant cannot directly access Apple’s push service....
Enigma Cipher Device Still Holds Secrets for Cyber Pros
The Enigma cipher machine, originally built in 1918 and later adapted by the Nazis, saw only a few hundred surviving units out of an estimated 35,000‑40,000 produced. Historian‑turned‑cybersecurity expert Marc Sachs will discuss the device’s historic failures at RSAC 2026, highlighting...
Conduent Breach Surges to Over 25M, Could Be Largest in US History
The cyberattack on government services firm Conduent, first disclosed in January 2025, has swelled to affect more than 25 million Americans, making it potentially the largest U.S. data breach on record. Texas alone accounts for 15.4 million impacted residents, while other states...
APT28 Targeted European Entities Using Webhook-Based Macro Malware
Russia‑linked APT28 launched Operation MacroMaze, a campaign against Western and Central European entities from September 2025 through January 2026. The attackers delivered spear‑phishing documents containing a macro that calls a webhook.site URL, acting as a tracking‑pixel to verify document opening. The macro drops...
600+ FortiGate Devices Hacked by AI-Armed Amateur
A financially motivated, Russian‑speaking threat actor used generative AI services to compromise more than 600 Fortinet FortiGate firewalls worldwide between January and February. The campaign avoided exploiting software vulnerabilities, instead leveraging exposed management ports and reused credentials with single‑factor authentication,...
Anthropic Accuses Deepseek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of Stealing Claude's AI Data Through 16 Million Queries
Anthropic has uncovered a coordinated distillation attack by three Chinese AI labs—Deepseek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax—targeting its Claude model. Over 24,000 fabricated accounts generated more than 16 million queries to extract reasoning, programming, and tool‑usage capabilities. The labs employed proxy services...
You Need a Separate Network to Protect Yourself From Your Smart Devices
Smart devices and IoT gadgets are rarely patched, leaving them vulnerable to malware such as Mirai. These products, from smart TVs to internet‑connected cameras, routinely harvest user data and can be hijacked to spy or launch attacks. Security experts recommend...
FFXI and FFXIV Square Enix Account Security Question and Answer Removed
Square Enix announced that the security question and answer tied to Square Enix Accounts for Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV will be retired on February 24, 2026. Players will not need to remember or re‑enter this credential, and...
Why Red Teaming Is Vital for Health Systems, and Not Just for Cybersecurity
Red‑team exercises simulate real cyber‑attacks to test how healthcare organizations respond under pressure. Pieter Ceelen of Fortra explains that these engagements uncover hidden vulnerabilities such as credential sharing, unpatched legacy medical IoT, and unclear emergency procedures like shutting down internet...
Google, Apple Start Testing Encrypted RCS on Android and iOS 26.4
Google and Apple announced that encrypted Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging is now in beta testing between Android and iPhone devices. The feature leverages the GSMA RCS Universal Profile and provides end‑to‑end encryption, visible as a lock icon in both...
Ad Tech Firm Optimizely Confirms Data Breach After Vishing Attack
Optimizely, a New York‑based ad‑tech firm, disclosed a data breach after a sophisticated voice‑phishing (vishing) attack on February 11. Threat actors accessed the company’s CRM and other internal business systems, extracting only basic contact information and not sensitive customer data. The...
Multiple Zero-Day Flaws in PDF Platforms Enable XSS and One-Click Attacks
Researchers at Novee Security uncovered 13 vulnerability categories and 16 zero‑day flaws across Foxit and Apryse PDF platforms, including critical XSS and OS command injection bugs. Using a human‑agent AI swarm, they rapidly identified high‑impact issues such as one‑click attacks...
Mobile Networks Face New Cellular UAV Exploitation Risks
Operation Spiderweb in June 2025 demonstrated how Ukrainian forces hijacked Russian mobile networks to control and stream data from drones, disabling about 20 aircraft. The incident exposed a growing vulnerability as 4G/5G standards now embed native drone support, allowing off‑the‑shelf...
Energy Department Patched Flaws Enabling Email Impersonation in Critical Minerals System
The U.S. Energy Department patched an identity‑verification flaw in its critical minerals portal that let outsiders register with email addresses mimicking official energy.gov accounts. Security researcher Ronald Lovelace uncovered the issue using subdomain enumeration and reported it through the department’s...
Belgian Centre for Cybersecurity Reports Significant Phishing Scams
Belgium’s Centre for Cybersecurity recorded a sharp rise in phishing complaints, logging 226 reports in Q4 2025 and 106 in January 2026. Scammers frequently masquerade as police or representatives of telecom and banking firms such as Proximus, Argenta, and Card...
Shai-Hulud-Like Worm Targets Developers via Npm and AI Tools
Security researchers have uncovered a supply‑chain worm, dubbed SANDWORM_MODE, spreading through at least 19 malicious npm packages that employ typosquatting. The malware not only steals developer and CI credentials but also injects rogue servers into AI coding assistants such as...
US Healthcare Diagnostic Firm Says 140,000 Affected by Data Breach
Healthcare diagnostics firm Vikor Scientific, now operating as Vanta Diagnostics, disclosed a data breach affecting nearly 140,000 individuals. The breach was traced to Catalyst RCM, a revenue-cycle‑management vendor, whose compromised credentials allowed the Everest ransomware group to exfiltrate roughly 12 GB...
OpenAI Aims for Stablecoin Market With New EVMbench
OpenAI unveiled EVMbench, an open‑source benchmark that tests AI agents' ability to spot and exploit smart‑contract flaws. The tool draws on 120 vulnerabilities from 40 audits, including scenarios from Stripe‑backed Tempo blockchain, and was released in partnership with crypto investor...
Liminal Expands To MSPs With Secure, Multi-Model AI Platform
Liminal, previously focused on enterprise customers, is extending its secure, multi‑model AI platform to managed service providers (MSPs) targeting small‑ and medium‑size businesses (SMBs). The platform consolidates access to leading large language models—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Perplexity—while sanitizing sensitive...
Supply Chain Cyber Risk Strategies Shift Toward Resilience
Supply chain cyber risk is moving from a pure prevention mindset to a resilience‑first strategy. Third‑party exposure dominates, with 61% of firms reporting a supplier breach in the past year, prompting tighter transparency and governance. AI accelerates both attacks—often under...
Ransomware, Zero-Days, and Data Breaches Shape This Week’s Cybersecurity Landscape
This week’s cybersecurity briefing spotlights a Dell RecoverPoint zero‑day that’s actively delivering web shells in VMware environments, alongside critical Ivanti EPMM remote‑code‑execution flaws and an Apache NiFi RBAC bypass. Over 40% of OpenClaw AI skills were found vulnerable, highlighting supply‑chain...
