North Korean hackers are deploying newly uncovered tools to move data between internet-connected and air-gapped systems, spread via removable drives, and conduct covert surveillance. [...]

A yearlong Europol-coordinated operation dubbed "Project Compass" has led to 30 arrests and 179 suspects being tied to "The Com," an online cybercrime collective that targets children and teenagers. [...]

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for February 2026. Today, Royal Hansen, vice-president, Engineering, explains how we tackle today’s thorniest cybersecurity challenges. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the …

Smaller crews piled in as old names splintered and rebranded Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but it seems like the cybercrooks launching the attacks didn't get the memo.... [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released new details about RESURGE, a malicious implant used in zero-day attacks exploiting CVE-2025-0282 to breach Ivanti Connect Secure devices. [...]

Crooks claim they helped themselves to over 37M accounts during January hit on subcontractor French online marketplace ManoMano is warning customers their personal data was siphoned off after a cyberattack hit one of its customer support subcontractors – and criminals are already claiming the haul is far larger than the …

Everyday tools like PDF readers, email clients, and archive utilities quietly define the real attack surface. Action1 explains how third-party software drift increases exploit risk and why consistent patching reduces exposure across endpoints. [...]

Company refuses to pay ransom as attackers threaten larger daily dumps The Netherlands' national police is backing Odido's refusal to pay a ransom after ShinyHunters leaked a second round of records belonging to the telco.... [...]

A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to operating OnlyFake, an AI-powered website that generated and sold more than 10,000 photos of fake identification documents to customers worldwide. [...]

Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January’s government crackdown against citizen protests nationwide, the regime implemented an internet shutdown that transcends the standard definition of internet censorship. This was …

This is new. North Korean hackers are posing as company recruiters, enticing job candidates to participate in coding challenges. When they run the code they are supposed to work on, it installs malware on their system. News article. [...]

In November 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the first major cloud service provider to announce the ISO/IEC 42001 accredited certification for AI services, covering: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q Business, Amazon Textract, and Amazon Transcribe. In November 2025, AWS successfully completed its first surveillance audit for ISO 42001 …

AI agents have traditionally faced three core limitations: they can’t retain learned information or operate autonomously beyond short periods, and they require constant supervision. AWS addresses these limitations with frontier agents—a new category of AI that performs complex reasoning, multi-step planning, and autonomous execution for hours or …

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. [...]

Trend Micro has patched two critical Apex One vulnerabilities that allow attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable Windows systems. [...]

DIY store chain ManoMano is notifying customers of a data breach personal data, which was caused by hackers compromising a third-party service provider. [...]

A critical vulnerability in the Junos OS Evolved network operating system running on PTX Series routers from Juniper Networks could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code remotely with root privileges. [...]

French professional football club Olympique de Marseille has confirmed a cyberattack after a threat actor claimed on Monday that it breached the club's systems earlier this month. [...]

It’s hard to overstate the role that Wi-Fi plays in virtually every facet of life. The organization that shepherds the wireless protocol says that more than 48 billion Wi-Fi-enabled devices have shipped since it debuted in the late 1990s. One estimate pegs the number of individual users at …

It’s hard to overstate the role that Wi-Fi plays in virtually every facet of life. The organization that shepherds the wireless protocol says that more than 48 billion Wi-Fi-enabled devices have shipped since it debuted in the late 1990s. One estimate pegs the number of individual users at …

Report claims more vulnerabilities created than fixed as remediation gap widens Veracode has posted its annual State of Software Security report, based on data from 1.6 million applications tested on its cloud platform, finding that more vulnerabilities are being created than are being fixed, and that high-velocity development …

The number of ransomware victims paying threat actors has dropped to 28% last year, an all-time low, despite a significant increase in the number of claimed attacks. [...]

Microsoft now allows more enterprise users to restore their personal settings and Microsoft Store apps from a previous Windows 11 device. [...]

Telegram posts promise up to $1,000 per call as gang refines IT helpdesk ruse Prolific cybercrime crew Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) is reportedly recruiting women in the hope of improving its social engineering success.... [...]

LLMs are bad at generating passwords: There are strong noticeable patterns among these 50 passwords that can be seen easily: All of the passwords start with a letter, usually uppercase G, almost always followed by the digit 7. Character choices are highly uneven ­ for example, L, 9, m, 2 …

A rare joint alert from all five spy agencies means serious business The Five Eyes intelligence alliance is urgently warning defenders to patch two Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities used in attacks.... [...]

In my previous blog post I mentioned the GetProcessHandleFromHwnd API. This was an API I didn’t know existed until I found a publicly disclosed UAC bypass using the Quick Assist UI Access application. This API looked interesting so I thought I should take a closer look. I typically …

Anthropic fixed the flaws - but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remain Security vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API keys by injecting malicious configurations into repositories, and then waiting for a developer to clone and open an untrustworthy project …

American manufacturer of medical devices, UFP Technologies, has disclosed that a cybersecurity incident has compromised its IT systems and data. [...]

The Microsoft Defender team has discovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials, including recruiting coding tests. [...]

UNC2814 historically targets governments and telcos A China-linked crew found a unique formula for attacking telcos and government orgs across the Americas, Asia, and Africa in its latest round of intrusions. Google's threat intelligence, along with unnamed industry partners, disrupted the gang, which used the Chocolate Factory's own spreadsheet …

Cisco is warning that a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, tracked as CVE-2026-20127, was actively exploited in zero-day attacks that allowed remote attackers to compromise controllers and add malicious rogue peers to targeted networks. [...]

Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), Mandiant, and partners disrupted a global espionage campaign attributed to a suspected Chinese threat actor that used SaaS API calls to hide malicious traffic in attacks targeting telecom and government networks. [...]

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 directly tied to observed compromises.... [...]

Marquis Software Solutions has filed a lawsuit against SonicWall, accusing the cybersecurity company of gross negligence and misrepresentation that allegedly led to a ransomware attack disrupting operations at 74 U.S. banks. [...]

OpenClaw has sparked heavy Telegram and dark web chatter, but Flare's data shows more research hype than mass exploitation. Flare explains how its telemetry found real supply-chain risk in the skills marketplace, yet limited signs of large-scale criminal operationalization. [...]

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.... [...]

Taiwan networking provider Zyxel has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability affecting over a dozen router models that can allow unauthenticated attackers to gain remote command execution on unpatched devices. [...]

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.... [...]

All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website: I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled “The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs.” Every word is a lie. I claimed (without evidence) that competitive hot-dog-eating is a popular hobby …

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Russian exploit broker who bought stolen hacking tools from a former executive of a U.S. defense contractor. [...]

Note to secret agents: ChatGPT is NOT a private diary A ChatGPT user with links to Chinese law enforcement tried to use the AI chatbot to run smear campaigns targeting the Japanese prime minister and other critics of the Chinese Communist Party, according to OpenAI's latest report on malicious …

The former head of Trenchant, a specialized U.S. defense contractor unit, was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in federal prison for stealing and selling zero-day exploits to a Russian broker whose clients include the Russian government. [...]

And they're being stressed by geopolitical concerns that threaten to slow important data-sharing efforts Researchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adversarial action, and proposed a method to improve data sharing that they think will make it stronger.... [...]

A financially motivated threat group dubbed "Diesel Vortex" is stealing credentials from freight and logistics operators in the U.S. and Europe in phishing attacks using 52 domains. [...]

Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching aren’t What good is finding a hole if you can't fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code's improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patches. But security researchers say that's not enough.... [...]

Wynn Resorts has confirmed that a hacker stole employee data from its systems after the company was listed on the ShinyHunters extortion gang's data leak site. [...]

A newly identified cybercrime service known as 1Campaign is enabling threat actors to run malicious Google Ads that remain online for extended periods while evading scrutiny from security researchers. [...]

SolarWinds + file transfer software = what attackers' dreams are made of If you run SolarWinds’ Serv-U, you should patch promptly. Four critical vulnerabilities in the file transfer software can allow attackers to execute code as root.... [...]

New ransomware of choice, same critical targets North Korea’s Lazarus Group appears to have added another tool to its kit. It has begun using Medusa ransomware in extortion attacks targeting at least one US healthcare organization and an unnamed victim in the Middle East, according to Symantec and …