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Human-related security risks rose 90% in 2025

23 February 2026
2025 saw a rise in AI-related security risks.

41% of Organizations Have Hired a Fake Candidate

23 February 2026
Deepfakes are leading to fraudulent job positions and hirings.

AI-Assisted Threat Actor Compromises 600+ FortiGate Devices in 55 Countries

21 February 2026
A Russian-speaking, financially motivated threat actor has been observed taking advantage of commercial generative artificial intelligence (AI) services to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices located in 55 countries. That's according to new findings from Amazon Threat Intelligence, which said it observed the activity between January 11 and February 18, 2026. "No exploitation of FortiGate

Critical Grandstream Phone Vulnerability Exposes Calls to Interception

21 February 2026
The flaw tracked as CVE-2026-2329 can be exploited without authentication for remote code execution with root privileges.  The post Critical Grandstream Phone Vulnerability Exposes Calls to Interception appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security for AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanning

21 February 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has begun to roll out a new security feature for Claude Code that can scan a user's software codebase for vulnerabilities and suggest patches. The capability, called Claude Code Security, is currently available in a limited research preview to Enterprise and Team customers. "It scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted

CISA Adds Two Actively Exploited Roundcube Flaws to KEV Catalog

21 February 2026
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Roundcube webmail software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2025-49113 (CVSS score: 9.9) - A deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that allows remote code

EC-Council Expands AI Certification Portfolio to Strengthen U.S. AI Workforce Readiness and Security

20 February 2026
With $5.5 trillion in global AI risk exposure and 700,000 U.S. workers needing reskilling, four new AI certifications and Certified CISO v4 help close the gap between AI adoption and workforce readiness. EC-Council, creator of the world-renowned Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) credential and a global leader in applied cybersecurity education, today launched its Enterprise AI Credential Suite,

‘Starkiller’ Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA

20 February 2026
Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abuse activists and security firms. But a stealthy new phishing-as-a-service offering lets customers sidestep both of these pitfalls: It uses cleverly disguised links to load the target brand's real website, and then acts as a relay between the target and the legitimate site -- forwarding the victim's username, password and multi-factor authentication (MFA) code to the legitimate site and returning its responses.

The 25 Most Vulnerable Passwords of 2026

20 February 2026
Research reveals the most insecure passwords of 2026. 

NIST’s Quantum Breakthrough: Single Photons Produced on a Chip

20 February 2026
NIST’s single photon chip will likely make QKD an option for a wider range of companies.  The post NIST’s Quantum Breakthrough: Single Photons Produced on a Chip appeared first on SecurityWeek.

BeyondTrust Flaw Used for Web Shells, Backdoors, and Data Exfiltration

20 February 2026
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products to conduct a wide range of malicious actions, including deploying VShell and  The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score: 9.9), allows attackers to execute operating system commands in the context of the

In Other News: Ransomware Shuts US Clinics, ICS Vulnerability Surge, European Parliament Bans AI

20 February 2026
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Axonius lays off employees, Abu Dhabi conference data leak, HackerOne addresses AI concerns. The post In Other News: Ransomware Shuts US Clinics, ICS Vulnerability Surge, European Parliament Bans AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Cline CLI 2.3.0 Supply Chain Attack Installed OpenClaw on Developer Systems

20 February 2026
In yet another software supply chain attack, the open-source, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cline CLI was updated to stealthily install OpenClaw, a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that has become exceedingly popular in the past few months. "On February 17, 2026, at 3:26 AM PT, an unauthorized party used a compromised npm publish token to publish an update to Cline CLI

Cybercrime Magazine Releases Its First YouTube Short, More On The Way

20 February 2026
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Feb. 20, 2026 –Watch the YouTube video The award-winning Cybercrime Magazine YouTube Channel released its first Short last month and the video has more than 720,000 Views. In less than two minutes, our host Taylor Fox The post Cybercrime Magazine Releases Its First YouTube Short, More On The Way appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

BeyondTrust Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Attacks

20 February 2026
CISA has updated its KEV entry for CVE-2026-1731 to alert organizations of exploitation in ransomware attacks. The post BeyondTrust Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

ClickFix Campaign Abuses Compromised Sites to Deploy MIMICRAT RAT

20 February 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ClickFix campaign that abuses compromised legitimate sites to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) called MIMICRAT (aka AstarionRAT). "The campaign demonstrates a high level of operational sophistication: compromised sites spanning multiple industries and geographies serve as delivery infrastructure, a multi-stage

FBI: $20 Million Losses Caused by 700 ATM Jackpotting Attacks in 2025

20 February 2026
The FBI has confirmed that the Ploutus malware, which has been around for over a decade, is still being used in the wild. The post FBI: $20 Million Losses Caused by 700 ATM Jackpotting Attacks in 2025 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Identity Cyber Scores: The New Metric Shaping Cyber Insurance in 2026

20 February 2026
With one in three cyber-attacks now involving compromised employee accounts, insurers and regulators are placing far greater emphasis on identity posture when assessing cyber risk.  For many organizations, however, these assessments remain largely opaque. Elements such as password hygiene, privileged access management, and the extent of multi-factor authentication (MFA) coverage are

Ukrainian National Sentenced to 5 Years in North Korea IT Worker Fraud Case

20 February 2026
A 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. for his role in facilitating North Korea's fraudulent information technology (IT) worker scheme. In November 2025, Oleksandr "Alexander" Didenko pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft for stealing the identities of U.S. citizens and selling them to IT workers to help them land

Chip Testing Giant Advantest Hit by Ransomware

20 February 2026
The company is investigating whether any customer or employee data was stolen by hackers. The post Chip Testing Giant Advantest Hit by Ransomware appeared first on SecurityWeek.