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10.02.2026
[Virtual Event] Shields Up: Key Technologies Reshaping Cybersecurity Defenses
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10.02.2026
OT Attacks Get Scary With 'Living-off-the-Plant' Techniques
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Ironically, security by obscurity has helped prevent dangerous OT attacks in recent years. It won't be that way forever.
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10.02.2026
TransUnion's Real Networks Deal Focuses on Robocall Blocking
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The acquisition allows the credit reporting agency to add SMS spam and scam prevention to its robocall blocking capabilities.
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20.10.2025
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09.02.2026
Warlock Gang Breaches SmarterTools Via SmarterMail Bugs
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The ransomware group breached SmarterTools through a vulnerability in the company's own SmarterMail product.
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23.01.2026
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09.02.2026
TeamPCP Turns Cloud Infrastructure Into Crime Bots
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The threat actor has been compromising cloud environments at scale with automated worm-like attacks on exposed services and interfaces.
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09.02.2026
'Reynolds' Bundles BYOVD With Ransomware Payload
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Researchers discovered a newly disclosed vulnerable driver embedded in Reynolds' ransomware, illustrating the increasing popularity of the defense-evasion technique.
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09.02.2026
What Organizations Need to Change When Managing Printers
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Ask the Expert: Organizations need to close the ownership vacuum, establish durable security controls, and ensure printers are protected as rigorously as other endpoints.
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06.02.2026
'Encrypt It Already' Campaign Pushes Big Tech to Prioritize E2E Encryption
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging major technology companies to follow through on their promises to implement end-to-end encryption (E2E) by default across their services, as privacy concerns mount amid increased AI use.
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06.02.2026
Shai-hulud: The Hidden Costs of Supply Chain Attacks
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Recent supply chain attacks involving self-propagating worms have spread far, but the damage and long-term impact is hard to quantify.
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06.02.2026
OpenClaw's Gregarious Insecurities Make Safe Usage Difficult
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Malicious "skills" and persnickety configuration settings are just some of the issues that security researchers have found when installing — and removing — the OpenClaw AI assistant.
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05.02.2026
EnCase Driver Weaponized as EDR Killers Persist
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The forensic tool's driver was signed with a digital certificate that expired years ago, but major security gaps allowed Windows to load it.
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05.02.2026
Agentic AI Site 'Moltbook' Is Riddled With Security Risks
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Someone used AI to build an entire Web platform, which then did something predictable and preventable: It exposed all its data through a publicly accessible API.
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05.02.2026
Data Tool to Triage Exploited Vulnerabilities Can Make KEV More Useful
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A disconnect exists between an organization's cybersecurity needs and lists like CISA's KEV Catalog. KEV Collider combines data from multiple open source vulnerability frameworks to help security teams quickly assess which are important, based on their priorities.
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05.02.2026
Cyber Success Trifecta: Education, Certifications & Experience
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Col. Georgeo Xavier Pulikkathara, CISO at iMerit, discusses the importance of fundamentals, continuous learning, and human ingenuity in the face of AI-driven cybersecurity evolution.
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05.02.2026
Protests Don't Impede Iranian Spying on Expats, Syrians, Israelis
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Iranian threat actors have been stealing credentials from people of interest across the Middle East, using spear-phishing and social engineering.
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04.02.2026
Ransomware Gang Goes Full 'Godfather' With Cartel
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DragonForce is taking cues from organized crime, emphasizing cooperation and coordination among ransomware gangs.
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04.02.2026
CISA Makes Unpublicized Ransomware Updates to KEV Catalog
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A third of the "flipped" CVEs affected network edge devices, leading one researcher to conclude, "Ransomware operators are building playbooks around your perimeter."
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04.02.2026
Attackers Use Windows Screensavers to Drop Malware, RMM Tools
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By tapping the unusual .scr file type, attackers leverage "executables that don't always receive executable-level controls," one researcher noted.
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04.02.2026
Extra Extra! Announcing DR Global Latin America
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Dark Reading has something new hitting the newsstand: a content section purpose-built for Latin American readers, featuring news, analysis, features, and multimedia.
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04.02.2026
Big Breach or Smooth Sailing? Mexican Gov't Faces Leak Allegations
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A hacktivist group claims a 2.3-terabyte data breach exposes the information of 36 million Mexicans, but no sensitive accounts are at risk, says government.
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04.02.2026
Google Looker Bugs Allow Cross-Tenant RCE, Data Exfil
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Attackers could even have used one vulnerable Lookout user to gain access to other GCP tenants' environments.
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03.02.2026
Russian Hackers Weaponize Microsoft Office Bug in Just 3 Days
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APT28's attacks rely on specially crafted Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) documents to kick off a multistage infection chain to deliver malicious payloads.
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03.02.2026
GlassWorm Malware Returns to Shatter Developer Ecosystems
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The self-replicating malware has poisoned a fresh set of Open VSX software components, leaving potential downstream victims with infostealer infections.
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03.02.2026
AI May Supplant Pen Testers, But Oversight & Trust Are Not There Yet
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Crowdsourced bug bounties and pen-testing firms see AI agents stealing the low-hanging vulnerabilities from their human counterparts. Oversight remains key.
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03.02.2026
8-Minute Access: AI Accelerates Breach of AWS Environment
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The AI-assisted attack, which started with exposed credentials from public S3 buckets, rapidly achieved administrative privilges.
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03.02.2026
Dark Patterns Undermine Security, One Click at a Time
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People trust organizations to do the right thing, but some websites and apps have user interfaces that ultimately lead to inadequate security.
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02.02.2026
Attackers Harvest Dropbox Logins Via Fake PDF Lures
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A malware-free phishing campaign targets corporate inboxes and asks employees to view "request orders," ultimately leading to Dropbox credential theft.
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02.02.2026
County Pays $600K to Wrongfully Jailed Pen Testers
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Iowa police arrested two penetration testers in 2019 for doing their jobs, highlighting the risk to security professionals in red teaming exercises.
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02.02.2026
Chinese Hackers Hijack Notepad++ Updates for 6 Months
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State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor's hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious downloads.
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02.02.2026
ShinyHunters Expands Scope of SaaS Extortion Attacks
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Following their attacks on Salesforce instances last year, members of the cybercrime group have broadened their targeting and gotten more aggressive with extortion tactics.
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30.01.2026
Torq Moves SOCs Beyond SOAR With AI-Powered Hyper Automation
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Investors poured $140 million into Torq's Series D Round, raising the startup's valuation to $1.2 billion, to bring AI-based "hyper automation" to SOCs.
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30.01.2026
2026: The Year Agentic AI Becomes the Attack-Surface Poster Child
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Dark Reading asked readers whether agentic AI attacks, advanced deepfake threats, board recognition of cyber as a top priority, or password-less technology adoption would be most likely to become a trending reality for 2026.
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30.01.2026
Out-of-the-Box Expectations for 2026 Reveal a Grab Bag of Risk
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Security teams need to be thinking about this list of emerging cybersecurity realities to avoid rolling the dice on enterprise security risks (and opportunities).
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30.01.2026
Tenable Tackles AI Governance, Shadow AI Risks, Data Exposure
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The Tenable One AI Exposure add-on discovers unsanctioned AI use in the organization and enforces policy compliance with approved tools.
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30.01.2026
OpenClaw AI Runs Wild in Business Environments
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The popular open source AI assistant (aka ClawdBot, MoltBot) has taken off, raising security concerns over its privileged, autonomous control within users' computers.
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30.01.2026
Chinese APTs Hacking Asian Orgs With High-End Malware
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Advanced persistent threat (APT) groups have deployed new cyber weapons against a variety of targets, highlighting the increasing threats to the region.
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29.01.2026
Trump Administration Rescinds Biden-Era Software Guidance
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Federal agencies will no longer be required to solicit software attestations that they comply with NIST's Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF). What that means long term is unclear.
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29.01.2026
Second Round of Critical RCE Bugs in n8n Spikes Corporate Risk
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A new around of vulnerabilities in the popular AI automation platform could let attackers hijack servers and steal credentials, allowing full takeover.
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29.01.2026
'Semantic Chaining' Jailbreak Dupes Gemini Nano Banana, Grok 4
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If an attacker splits a malicious prompt into discrete chunks, some large language models (LLMs) will get lost in the details and miss the true intent.
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29.01.2026
From Quantum to AI Risks: Preparing for Cybersecurity's Future
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In the latest edition of "Reporters' Notebook," a trio of journalists urge the cybersecurity industry to prioritize patching vulnerabilities, preparing for quantum threats, and refining AI applications,
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28.01.2026
How Can CISOs Respond to Ransomware Getting More Violent?
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Ransomware defense requires focusing on business resilience. This means patching issues promptly, improving user education, and deploying multifactor authentication.
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28.01.2026
Months After Patch, WinRAR Bug Poised to Hit SMBs Hardest
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Russian and Chinese nation-state attackers are exploiting a months-old WinRAR vulnerability, despite a patch that came out last July.
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28.01.2026
Fortinet Confirms New Zero-Day Behind Malicious SSO Logins
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To stop the ongoing attacks, the cybersecurity vendor took the drastic step of temporarily disabling FortiCloud single sign-on (SSO) authentication for all devices.
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28.01.2026
Consumers Reluctant to Shop at Stores That Don't Take Security Seriously
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The retail sector must adapt as consumers become more cybersecurity-conscious. Increased attack transparency is a good place to start.
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28.01.2026
China-Backed 'PeckBirdy' Takes Flight for Cross-Platform Attacks
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In two separate campaigns, attackers used the JScript C2 framework to target Chinese gambling websites and Asian government entities with new backdoors.
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28.01.2026
Surging Cyberattacks Boost Latin America to Riskiest Region
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The region is up against tactics like data-leak extortion, credential-stealing campaigns, edge-device exploitation, and attackers leveraging AI.
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27.01.2026
AI & the Death of Accuracy: What It Means for Zero-Trust
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AI "model collapse," where LLMs over time train on more and more AI-generated data and become degraded as a result, can introduce inaccuracies, promulgate malicious activity, and impact PII protections.
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27.01.2026
Vibe-Coded 'Sicarii' Ransomware Can't Be Decrypted
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A new ransomware strain that entered the scene last year has poorly designed code and uses Hebrew language that might be a false flag.
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27.01.2026
Critical Telnet Server Flaw Exposes Forgotten Attack Surface
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While telnet is considered obsolete, the network protocol is still used by hundreds of thousands of legacy systems and IoT devices for remote access.
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27.01.2026
Microsoft Rushes Emergency Patch for Office Zero-Day
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To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would need either system access or be able to convince a user to open a malicious Office file.
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27.01.2026
'Stanley' Toolkit Turns Chrome Into Undetectable Phishing Vector
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The malware-as-a-service kit enables malicious extensions to overlay pages on real websites without changing the visible URL, signaling a fresh challenge for enterprise security.
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27.01.2026
WorldLeaks Extortion Group Claims It Stole 1.4TB of Nike Data
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The sportswear brand is investigating an alleged breach of its network that exposed some 188,347 files of highly sensitive corporate data.
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27.01.2026
WorldLeaks Extortion Group Claims It Stole 1.4TB of Nike Data
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The sportswear brand is investigating an alleged breach of its network that exposed some 188,347 files of highly sensitive corporate data.
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27.01.2026
Hand CVE Over to the Private Sector
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How MITRE has mismanaged the world's vulnerability database for decades and wasted millions along the way.
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27.01.2026
Beauty in Destruction: Exploring Malware's Impact Through Art
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Artistic initiatives turn cybersecurity into immersive exhibits at the Museum of Malware Art, transforming digital threats into thought-provoking experiences.
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26.01.2026
Sandworm Blamed for Wiper Attack on Polish Power Grid
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Researchers attributed the failed attempt to the infamous Russian APT Sandworm, which is notorious for wiper attacks on critical infrastructure organizations.
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26.01.2026
DPRK's Konni Targets Blockchain Developers With AI-Generated Backdoor
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The North Korean threat group is using a new PowerShell backdoor to compromise development environments and target cryptocurrency holdings, according to researchers.
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24.01.2026
2025 Was a Wake-up Call to Protect Human Decisions, Not Just Systems
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Cybersecurity must shift from solely protecting systems to safeguarding human decision-making under uncertainty and system failures.
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23.01.2026
Swipe, Plug-in, Pwned: Researchers Find New Ways to Hack Vehicles
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Security researchers exploited dozens of vulnerabilities in vehicle infotainment systems and EV chargers during the latest Pwn2Own contest at Automotive World 2026.
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