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27 February 2026
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: cyber valuations surge, OpenAI disrupts malicious AI use, ShinyHunters claims Odido breach.
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27 February 2026
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Feb. 27, 2026 – Watch the YouTube Short Cybercrime Magazine’s latest YouTube Short video, produced by Taylor Fox, looks back at a riveting privacy and surveillance story that gripped students, parents, and educators
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27 February 2026
Hackers stole personal information such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other information.
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27 February 2026
The attacks exploited a post-authentication command injection vulnerability in the endpoint manager’s interface.
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27 February 2026
The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft has been attributed to a fresh set of tools, including a backdoor that uses Zoho WorkDrive for command-and-control (C2) communications to fetch more payloads and an implant that uses removable media to relay commands and breach air-gapped networks.
The campaign, codenamed Ruby Jumper by Zscaler ThreatLabz, involves the deployment of malware
27 February 2026
The 24-year-old suspect has been accused of trafficking over 26,000 cards from a single brand.
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27 February 2026
Anthropic said it sought narrow assurances from the Pentagon that Claude won’t be used for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons.
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27 February 2026
Aeternum operates on smart contracts, making its command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure difficult to disrupt.
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27 February 2026
An out-of-band security update for Junos OS Evolved patches the remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2026-21902.
The post Juniper Networks PTX Routers Affected by Critical Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
27 February 2026
Threat actors are luring unsuspecting users into running trojanized gaming utilities that are distributed via browsers and chat platforms to distribute a remote access trojan (RAT).
"A malicious downloader staged a portable Java runtime and executed a malicious Java archive (JAR) file named jd-gui.jar," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a post on X. "This downloader used PowerShell
27 February 2026
Meta on Thursday said it's taking legal action to tackle scams on its platforms by filing lawsuits against what it calls deceptive advertisers based in Brazil, China, and Vietnam.
As part of the effort, the advertisers' methods of payment have been suspended, related accounts have been disabled, and the website domain names used to pull off the scams have been blocked.
Concurrently, the social
27 February 2026
CISA has released an advisory to warn about four vulnerabilities discovered by a researcher in Gardyn Home and Gardyn Studio.
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26 February 2026
The devices have been added to the NATO Information Assurance Product Catalogue (NIAPC).
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26 February 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet loader called Aeternum C2 that uses a blockchain-based command-and-control (C2) infrastructure to make it resilient to takedown efforts.
"Instead of relying on traditional servers or domains for command-and-control, Aeternum stores its instructions on the public Polygon blockchain," Qrator Labs said in a report shared with The
26 February 2026
The goal isn’t about preventing every attack but about keeping the business running when attacks succeed.
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26 February 2026
A previously undocumented threat activity cluster has been attributed to an ongoing malicious campaign targeting education and healthcare sectors in the U.S. since at least December 2025.
The campaign is being tracked by Cisco Talos under the moniker UAT-10027. The end goal of the attacks is to deliver a never-before-seen backdoor codenamed Dohdoor.
"Dohdoor utilizes the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)
26 February 2026
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Feb. 26, 2026 – Read the full story in BitGuardian The staggering prediction by Cybersecurity Ventures that global cybercrime damages would reach $10.5 trillion USD annually by 2025 has served as a wake-up call
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26 February 2026
Nothing here looks dramatic at first glance. That’s the point. Many of this week’s threats begin with something ordinary, like an ad, a meeting invite, or a software update.
Behind the scenes, the tactics are sharper. Access happens faster. Control is established sooner. Cleanup becomes harder.
Here is a quick look at the signals worth paying attention to.
AI-powered command
26 February 2026
Anthropic has patched vulnerabilities whose impact was demonstrated by Check Point via malicious configuration files.
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26 February 2026
The seed and Series A investment will enable the startup to accelerate product development and expand sales and customer success teams.
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