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News•Feb 26, 2026
How to Cut MTTR by Improving Threat Visibility in Your SOC
Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) is a critical KPI linking security speed to business risk. The article explains that poor threat visibility—stale data, alert overload, fragmented tools—drives MTTR higher, while high‑quality, execution‑verified threat intelligence can compress response times. ANY.RUN’s sandbox‑derived feeds deliver near‑real‑time, low‑false‑positive IOCs that enrich SIEMs and automate SOAR playbooks. Reducing MTTR not only cuts incident costs but also protects brand reputation, regulatory exposure, and overall operational resilience.
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News•Feb 25, 2026
$300 a Month Android Malware ‘Oblivion’ Uses Fake Updates to Hijack Phones
A new Android Remote Access Trojan called Oblivion is being sold on the public web for $300 a month, with longer‑term plans up to $2,200. The malware disguises itself as a legitimate Google Play update, hijacking the Accessibility Service to...
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News•Feb 24, 2026
Sendmarc Releases DMARCbis Fireside Chat Featuring Co-Editor Todd Herr
Sendmarc has published a fireside chat with DMARCbis co‑editor Todd Herr, outlining the draft’s progress toward Proposed Standard status. The discussion details upcoming tag revisions, clearer reporting expectations, and a DNS tree‑walk method for receiver‑side domain discovery. Herr emphasizes that...
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News•Feb 24, 2026
How to Maximize DDoS Readiness with Proactive Protection Strategies
Cyber Security Intelligence reports a surge in DDoS attacks in 2025, with assaults escalating from gigabyte to terabyte volumes. The article outlines proactive protection steps, starting with comprehensive risk assessments that inventory public‑facing assets and establish traffic baselines. It then...
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News•Feb 23, 2026
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...
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News•Feb 22, 2026
Hackers Hide Pulsar RAT Inside PNG Images in New NPM Supply Chain Attack
Security researchers at Veracode uncovered a malicious NPM package named buildrunner-dev that exploits a typosquatting trick to mimic the legitimate buildrunner tool. The package drops a massive batch script that conceals its true commands among random text and then downloads...
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News•Feb 17, 2026
Cybersecurity Excellence Awards Reveal Nomination Shift From AI Hype to Governance Execution
Cybersecurity Insiders' 2026 Excellence Awards reveal a notable shift in vendor nominations from AI hype toward concrete governance, identity, and data security solutions. While agentic AI categories are growing rapidly, nominations now emphasize oversight mechanisms, ISO‑42001‑aligned frameworks, and human‑in‑the‑loop controls....
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News•Feb 17, 2026
How to Securely Edit and Redact Sensitive PDFs: A Cybersecurity Guide
PDFs remain the go‑to format for confidential data, yet hidden metadata, annotations, and embedded objects often leak information despite password protection. In 2023, over 400 breach incidents were traced to incomplete redactions or metadata exposure. The guide outlines a six‑step...
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News•Feb 17, 2026
Hackers Abuse ScreenConnect to Hijack PCs via Fake Social Security Emails
Forcepoint X‑labs uncovered a new phishing campaign that spoofs the US Social Security Administration to deliver a malicious .cmd script. The script auto‑elevates, disables Windows SmartScreen and Mark‑of‑Web, and leverages Alternate Data Streams to hide before silently installing a compromised...
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News•Feb 16, 2026
Google Ads and Claude AI Abused to Spread MacSync Malware via ClickFix
Researchers at Moonlock Lab discovered that hackers hijacked verified Google Ads accounts belonging to a children’s charity and a Colombian retailer to promote malicious “ClickFix” links. The ads direct users searching for macOS commands to a counterfeit Claude AI page...
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News•Feb 13, 2026
What Interoperability in Healthcare Really Means for Security and Privacy
Healthcare interoperability is accelerating data exchange among hospitals, labs, insurers and pharmacies, but each connection expands the sector's attack surface. Misconfigured integrations, outdated protocols and weak identity controls can leak sensitive patient records, turning routine sharing into a security liability....
By HackRead
News•Feb 13, 2026
The $17 Billion Wake-Up Call: Securing Crypto in the Age of AI Scams
The 2026 Chainalysis report estimates crypto‑related scams cost $17 billion, driven by a 1,400% surge in impersonation attacks and a 456% jump in AI‑enabled fraud. Machine‑learning tools have turned scams into factory‑scale operations, making them 4.5 times more profitable than traditional...
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