News for March 1, 2026

By I_g_o_r | Some news | 28 Feb 2026


Fake Uniswap Ads Drain Six-Figure Wallets as Crypto Exploits Reach $3.7 Billion in January

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/294231356842513

 

UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/22/cornwall_council_complaints_breach/

 

New ClickFix Attack Targets Crypto Wallets and 25+ Browsers with Infostealer

https://hackread.com/clickfix-attack-crypto-wallets-browsers-infostealer/

 

Ultramarathons may damage red blood cells and accelerate aging

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260221060946.htm

 

IoTeX hit by private key exploit draining around $2 million from bridge contracts, per co-founder

https://www.theblock.co/post/390698/iotex-hit-by-private-key-exploit-draining-up-to-8-8-million-from-bridge-contracts

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/294239711054593

 

The UFOs That Terrified World Governments | Close Encounters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUVhnTP4JUg

 

Hackers Hide Pulsar RAT Inside PNG Images in New NPM Supply Chain Attack

https://hackread.com/hackers-pulsar-rat-png-images-npm-supply-chain-attack/

 

Was Climate Change The Greatest Financial Scandal In History?

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/was-climate-change-greatest-financial-scandal-history

 

Predator spyware hooks iOS SpringBoard to hide mic, camera activity

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/predator-spyware-hooks-ios-springboard-to-hide-mic-camera-activity/

 

Bloomberg: Hedge funds that once drove the U.S. Bitcoin ETF boom are rapidly withdrawing, with Bitcoin ETF holdings down 28% quarter-on-quarter in Q4 2025.

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/294713692898130

 

Study: Teen Cannabis Use Linked to Double Psychosis Risk

https://ground.news/article/study-teen-cannabis-use-linked-to-double-psychosis-risk_81fb73

 

jsPDF Flaw Exposes Millions of Developers to Object Injection

https://gbhackers.com/jspdf-millions-developers-exposed/

 

The Dark Business of Cyber Warfare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pn7FWFgm04

 

Vitalik Buterin Sells $7 Million in Ethereum as ETH Price Sinks 30%

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/294383430460850

 

Arkanix Stealer pops up as short-lived AI info-stealer experiment

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/arkanix-stealer-pops-up-as-short-lived-ai-info-stealer-experiment/

 

Shutdown at D.H.S. Extends to Cyber Agency, Adding to Setbacks

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/us/politics/cyber-agency-dhs-security-setbacks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OFA.NVDs.aNOf_aotEAWg

 

Ethereum RWAs Hit $15B as Tokenized Gold and Treasury Products Fuel Institutional Growth

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/294506007171650

 

Researchers Demonstrate 27 Attacks Against Major Password Managers

https://hackread.com/researchers-demonstrate-password-managers-attacks/

 

DPRK-Linked Hackers Continue Aggressive Crypto Attacks One Year After Bybit Breach

https://gbhackers.com/bybit-breach/

 

The Hackers Who Broke Into 760 American Companies With One Email

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxFRprcYhM0

 

Telegram Disputes Russia's Claim Its Encryption Was Compromised

https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/02/22/2332229/telegram-disputes-russias-claim-its-encryption-was-compromised

 

70+ Password Statistics for 2026

https://spacelift.io/blog/password-statistics

 

FTC Takes Action Against Monument for Sharing Health Data

https://hackernoon.com/ftc-takes-action-against-monument-for-sharing-health-data

 

Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high that a person flew to the US to buy them instead, saving money despite flight and hotel costs — HDD deal seeker saved more than $2,000 by taking a trip

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/hard-drive-pricing-in-the-uk-is-so-high-that-a-person-flew-to-the-us-to-buy-them-instead-saving-money-despite-flight-and-hotel-costs-hdd-deal-seeker-saved-more-than-usd2-000-by-taking-a-trip

 

CIA Admits There Was Political Bias In Obama-Era Intelligence

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cia-admits-there-was-political-bias-obama-era-intelligence

 

OpenAI employee's AI agent ‘accidentally’ sent $442K to beggar

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/294625596743505

 

Autonomous AI Agents Provide New Class of Supply Chain Attack

https://www.securityweek.com/autonomous-ai-agents-provide-new-class-of-supply-chain-attack/

 

AI Agents Exposed 1.5 Million Passwords - The Security Disaster Nobody Saw Coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svV_XNXAVJg

 

Nobel Laureate's Device Harvests Drinking Water from Dry Air Without Electricity

https://ground.news/article/nobel-laureates-device-harvests-drinking-water-from-dry-air-without-electricity_a5e643

 

Weekly Recap: Double-Tap Skimmers, PromptSpy AI, 30Tbps DDoS, Docker Malware & More

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/weekly-recap-double-tap-skimmers.html

 

CVE-2026-1731 fuels ongoing attacks on BeyondTrust remote access products

https://securityaffairs.com/188370/hacking/cve-2026-1731-fuels-ongoing-attacks-on-beyondtrust-remote-access-products.html

 

Can the creator economy stay afloat in a flood of AI slop?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/22/can-the-creator-economy-stay-afloat-in-a-flood-of-ai-slop/

 

Hundreds of FortiGate Firewalls Hacked in AI-Powered Attacks: AWS

https://www.securityweek.com/hundreds-of-fortigate-firewalls-hacked-in-ai-powered-attacks-aws/

 

I Had NO IDEA This Was True

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoKOUvY3s-E

 

Hackers Use Excel Exploit to Hide XWorm 7.2 in JPEG Files, Hijack PCs

https://hackread.com/hackers-excel-exploit-xworm-7-2-jpeg-files-hijack-pcs/

 

GrayCharlie Hacks WordPress Sites, Spreads NetSupport RAT and Stealc Malware

https://gbhackers.com/graycharlie-hacks-wordpress/

 

Malicious npm Packages Harvest Crypto Keys, CI Secrets, and API Tokens

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/malicious-npm-packages-harvest-crypto.html

 

CISA: Recently patched RoundCube flaws now exploited in attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-recently-patched-roundcube-flaws-now-exploited-in-attacks/

https://gbhackers.com/cisa-exploited-roundcube-vulnerabilities/

 

What Happened to the Animals That Were Smarter Than Us? (Sumerian Mystery)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suv2rnZDiNY&t=76s

 

Is Gemini in Trouble? Cuts 25% of Staff and Exits UK & EU

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/294838056699697

 

Starkiller Phishing Kit Clones Real Login Pages to Evade MFA Protections

https://gbhackers.com/starkiller-phishing-kit/

 

How pig-butchering crypto scams turn trust into a financial weapon

https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-pig-butchering-crypto-scams-turn-trust-into-a-financial-weapon

 

Global crypto ETP outflows stretch to fifth week as $4 billion exits funds amid 'growing investor apathy': CoinShares

https://www.theblock.co/post/390801/global-crypto-etp-outflows-stretch-to-fifth-week-as-4-billion-exits-funds-amid-growing-investor-apathy-coinshares

 

MuddyWater Targets MENA Organizations with GhostFetch, CHAR, and HTTP_VIP

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/muddywater-targets-mena-organizations.html

 

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Governor Waller stated that the interest rate decision in March will depend on the labor data from February

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/294751306638641

 

You Are Both Over- And Underestimating Quantum Computing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjYFcElfA_s

 

Data Breaches in 2026: What’s old, what’s new?

https://hackread.com/data-breaches-2026-whats-old-whats-new/

 

Major crypto platform shuts down after $26M hack

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/294856952178930

 

Android mental health apps with 14.7M installs filled with security flaws

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-mental-health-apps-with-147m-installs-filled-with-security-flaws/

 

Scientists create universal nasal spray vaccine that protects against COVID, flu, and pneumonia

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260222092258.htm

 

US Healthcare Diagnostic Firm Says 140,000 Affected by Data Breach

https://www.securityweek.com/us-healthcare-diagnostic-firm-says-140000-affected-by-data-breach/

 

The Internet, Reinvented

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTnYVh7K6xQ

 

DWF Labs: Over 80% of tokens fall below their issuance price within 90 days, capital shifts towards crypto equities and mergers

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/294563267991890

 

Multiple Zero-Day Flaws in PDF Platforms Enable XSS and One-Click Attacks

https://hackread.com/zero-day-flaws-pdf-platforms-xss-one-click-attacks/

 

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, other Chinese AI developers of 'industrial-scale' copying — Claims 'distillation' included 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges to train smaller models

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-accuses-deepseek-other-chinese-ai-developers-of-industrial-scale-copying-claims-distillation-included-24-000-fraudulent-accounts-and-16-million-exchanges-to-train-smaller-models

 

Ad tech firm Optimizely confirms data breach after vishing attack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ad-tech-firm-optimizely-confirms-data-breach-after-vishing-attack/

 

Password managers keep your passwords safe, unless…

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/password-managers-keep-your-passwords-safe-unless

 

A wormable cryptojacking campaign spreads via pirated software, using BYOVD and a time-based logic bomb to deploy a custom XMRig miner

https://securityaffairs.com/188388/malware/wormable-xmrig-campaign-leverages-byovd-and-timed-kill-switch-for-stealth.html

 

50 Classical Music Masterpieces for Relaxation & the Soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYd1-cPwQCk

 

Human rights are under assault globally, says UN Secretary General

https://ground.news/article/un-chief-decries-global-rise-of-rule-of-force_dc58a7

 

Wu said that the Web3 Foundation announced that it will gradually shut down official Polkadot support services

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/294748968263953

 

Malicious NuGet Packages Target ASP.NET Developers to Steal Login Credentials

https://gbhackers.com/malicious-nuget-packages/

 

Romanian hacker pleads guilty to selling access to Oregon state networks

https://securityaffairs.com/188380/cyber-crime/romanian-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-selling-access-to-oregon-state-networks.html

 

Why Chinese Apartments Cost $50,000 (And American Ones Cost $500,000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAQbouVOoHs

 

APT28 Targeted European Entities Using Webhook-Based Macro Malware

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/apt28-targeted-european-entities-using.html

 

Trump crypto company says ‘coordinated attack‘ on stablecoin failed

https://cointelegraph.com/news/world-liberty-attack-stablecoin-failed

 

Massive Conduent Data Breach Exfiltrates 8 TB Affects Over 25 Million Americans

https://gbhackers.com/massive-conduent-data-breach/

 

A Karaoke Company Just Crashed the Stock Market & It Reveals Wall Street’s AI Problem

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/294781767907778

 

AI agent 'accidentally' sends entire memecoin holdings to reply guy

https://www.theblock.co/post/390866/the-daily-ai-agent-accidentally-sends-entire-memecoin-holdings-to-reply-guy-based-raises-11-5m-in-pantera-led-round-and-more

 

Is China Really Dumping US Treasuries?

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-really-dumping-us-treasuries

 

Quantum Algorithm Beats Classical Tools On Complement Sampling Tasks

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/24/0047210/quantum-algorithm-beats-classical-tools-on-complement-sampling-tasks

 

Cybercriminals Exploit Windows Management Instrumentation WMI to Maintain Stealthy Access and Silent Control

https://gbhackers.com/cybercriminals-exploit-windows-management-instrumentation-wmi/

 

Lazarus Group Uses Medusa Ransomware in Middle East and U.S. Healthcare Attacks

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/lazarus-group-uses-medusa-ransomware-in.html

 

Iran's MuddyWater Targets Orgs With Fresh Malware as Tensions Mount

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/iran-muddywater-new-malware-tensions-mount

 

Everest ransomware hits Vikor Scientific‘s supplier, data of 140,000 patients stolen

https://securityaffairs.com/188397/data-breach/everest-ransomware-hits-vikor-scientific-s-supplier-data-of-140000-patients-stolen.html

 

Password Managers are Swiss Cheese - Threat Wire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUSmmBLXTgM

 

ShinyHunters extortion gang claims Odido breach affecting millions

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shinyhunters-extortion-gang-claims-odido-breach-affecting-millions/

https://hackread.com/shinyhunters-leak-dutch-telecom-odido-data/

 

Wikipedia Removes Archive.today Links After Malicious Code

https://ground.news/article/wikipedia-removes-archivetoday-links-after-malicious-code_df3492

 

Operation MacroMaze: APT28 exploits webhooks for covert data exfiltration

https://securityaffairs.com/188421/apt/operation-macromaze-apt28-exploits-webhooks-for-covert-data-exfiltration.html

 

New ‘Sandworm_Mode’ Supply Chain Attack Hits NPM

https://www.securityweek.com/new-sandworm_mode-supply-chain-attack-hits-npm/

 

A MURDERED SCIENTIST, UFOs, AND “DISCLOSURE”: PART ONE

https://gizadeathstar.com/2026/02/a-murdered-scientist-ufos-and-disclosure-part-one/

 

Identity Prioritization isn't a Backlog Problem - It's a Risk Math Problem

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/identity-prioritization-isnt-backlog.html

 

Scientists engineer bacteria to eat cancer tumors from the inside out

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260224023101.htm

 

Threat Actors Exploit Weaponized AI to Seize Full Domain Access in Under 30 Minutes

https://gbhackers.com/weaponized-ai/

 

Jane Street Sued For Crypto Insider Trading That Accelerated Terraform Collapse

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/jane-street-sued-crypto-insider-trading-acceleartes-terraform-collapse

 

Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool's Day

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/ai_isnt_done_yet_memoryrelated/

 

UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-fines-reddit-19-million-for-using-childrens-data-unlawfully/

 

Fake Zoom meeting “update” silently installs surveillance software

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/scams/2026/02/fake-zoom-meeting-update-silently-installs-surveillance-software

 

UAC-0050 Targets European Financial Institution With Spoofed Domain and RMS Malware

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/uac-0050-targets-european-financial.html

 

Google Just Broke Quantum Computing - And Nobody's Talking About What Comes Next

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7DP850GDE

 

Critical SolarWinds Serv-U flaws offer root access to servers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-solarwinds-serv-u-flaws-offer-root-access-to-servers/

 

VMware Aria Flaws Enable Attackers to Execute Remote Code

https://gbhackers.com/vmware-aria-flaws/

 

Canadians now say they need $1.7M to retire. Many doubt they'll get there

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canadians-now-say-they-need-17m-to-retire-many-doubt-theyll-get-there-170833700.html/

 

Amazon: Low-Skill Hacker Used AI Tools to Breach FortiGate Devices Globally

https://hackread.com/amazon-hacker-ai-tools-breach-fortigate-devices/

 

CarGurus data breach exposes information of 12.4 million accounts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cargurus-data-breach-exposes-information-of-124-million-accounts/

https://www.securityweek.com/over-12-million-users-impacted-by-cargurus-data-breach/

 

These Are The World's 10 Deadliest Viruses

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/these-are-worlds-10-deadliest-viruses

 

RoguePilot Flaw in GitHub Codespaces Enabled Copilot to Leak GITHUB_TOKEN

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/roguepilot-flaw-in-github-codespaces.html

 

Passwords are finally coming to WhatsApp soon

https://www.neowin.net/news/passwords-are-finally-coming-to-whatsapp-soon/

 

Holders sold over 25,000 BTC worth of bitcoin ETFs shares last quarter: analyst

https://www.theblock.co/post/391117/holders-sold-over-25000-btc-worth-of-bitcoin-etfs-shares-last-quarter-analyst

 

Anthropic says it's been targeted in massive distillation attacks

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/295281709373218

 

1Password Getting More Expensive Starting in March

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/24/1password-march-price-increase/

https://www.theverge.com/tech/883837/1password-price-increase

 

Hyper Coverage Of AOC’s ‘Um’ Non-Scandal Highlights How The U.S. Press Is Eager To Be Gamed By Bad Actors

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hyper-coverage-of-aocs-um-non-scandal-highlights-how-the-u-s-press-is-eager-to-be-gamed-by-bad-actors/

 

The BIOS Virus: The un-killable malware hitting Windows users in 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x8RL6_g628

 

Former U.S. Defense contractor executive sentenced for selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker Operation Zero

https://securityaffairs.com/188482/intelligence/former-u-s-defense-contractor-executive-sentenced-for-selling-zero-day-exploits-to-russian-broker-operation-zero.html

 

$300 a Month Android Malware ‘Oblivion’ Uses Fake Updates to Hijack

https://hackread.com/android-malware-oblivion-fake-updates-hijack-phones/

 

Top 5 Ways Broken Triage Increases Business Risk Instead of Reducing It

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/top-5-ways-broken-triage-increases.html

 

Medical Device Maker UFP Technologies Hit by Cyberattack

https://www.securityweek.com/medical-device-maker-ufp-technologies-hit-by-cyberattack/

 

Wynn Resorts confirms employee data breach after extortion threat

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wynn-resorts-confirms-employee-data-breach-after-extortion-threat/

 

Hackers Exploit Cortex XDR Live Terminal for C2 Communications

https://gbhackers.com/cortex-xdr-exploited/

 

Stop Trusting VPN Companies - Build This Instead (it's free)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cy68InF1Vc

 

Phishing campaign targets freight and logistics orgs in the US, Europe

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phishing-campaign-targets-freight-and-logistics-orgs-in-the-us-europe/

 

Cybercriminals Exploit Fake Avast Website to Steal Users Credit Card Information

https://gbhackers.com/fake-avast-website/

 

Three Major Solana Platforms Announce Full Shutdown: Report

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/295149907995234

 

CrowdStrike Says Attackers Are Moving Through Networks in Under 30 Minutes

https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/02/24/1911240/crowdstrike-says-attackers-are-moving-through-networks-in-under-30-minutes

 

Study Maps Quantum Effect That Could Enable Battery-Free Devices

https://ground.news/article/study-maps-quantum-effect-that-could-enable-battery-free-devices_854479

 

Cyberattack Targets Mexican Government Using AI Chatbot

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/295473556671025

 

The age-verification trap: verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection

https://www.osnews.com/story/144475/the-age-verification-trap-verifying-users-ages-undermines-everyones-data-protection/

 

SLH Offers $500–$1,000 Per Call to Recruit Women for IT Help Desk Vishing Attacks

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/slh-offers-5001000-per-call-to-recruit.html

 

The Gold Mistake Everyone Makes During Hyperinflation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e4ZhZaoK7U

 

Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/25/1524257/hacker-used-anthropics-claude-to-steal-sensitive-mexican-data

 

The Blast Radius Problem: Stolen Credentials Are Weaponizing Agentic AI

https://www.securityweek.com/the-blast-radius-problem-stolen-credentials-are-weaponizing-agentic-ai/

 

Every Illegal Operating System Explained in 10 Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6F0DY4s-Dk

 

Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225081217.htm

 

Google Disrupts UNC2814 GRIDTIDE Campaign After 53 Breaches Across 42 Countries

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/google-disrupts-unc2814-gridtide.html

 

'Black Swan' author warns investors to brace for bankruptcies

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/295467297537522

 

Critical Zyxel router flaw exposed devices to remote attacks

https://securityaffairs.com/188501/security/critical-zyxel-router-flaw-exposed-devices-to-remote-attacks.html

 

US cybersecurity agency CISA reportedly in dire shape amid Trump cuts and layoffs

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/us-cybersecurity-agency-cisa-reportedly-in-dire-shape-amid-trump-cuts-and-layoffs/

 

Severe Heart Attacks Are Becoming Deadlier for Younger Americans, Study Finds

https://gizmodo.com/severe-heart-attacks-are-becoming-deadlier-for-younger-americans-study-finds-2000725726

 

Fake Next.js job interview tests backdoor developer's devices

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-nextjs-job-interview-tests-backdoor-developers-devices/

 

MSTR and COIN face significant short positions as large investors bet on a decline in cryptocurrency stocks

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/295568187337250

 

Americans Are Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/25/1632246/americans-are-destroying-flock-surveillance-cameras

 

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

 

Medical device maker UFP Technologies warns of data stolen in cyberattack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/medical-device-maker-ufp-technologies-warns-of-data-stolen-in-cyberattack/

 

Central Banks Are Hoarding Gold — Jaspreet Singh Explains What’s Coming for the Dollar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwIiEFUfK-k

 

Study finds vegetarians over 80 less likely to reach 100

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225081214.htm

 

Report Finds Just 1% of Security Flaws Drive Most Cyberattacks in 2025

https://hackread.com/1-security-flaws-drive-cyberattacks-2025-report/

 

Hackers abused Cisco SD-WAN zero-day since 2023 to gain full admin control

https://securityaffairs.com/188540/security/hackers-abused-cisco-sd-wan-zero-day-since-2023-to-gain-full-admin-control.html

 

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Kali Linux + Claude, Chrome Crash Traps, WinRAR Flaws, LockBit & 15+ Stories

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/threatsday-bulletin-kali-linux-claude.html

 

Zoom Update Scam Infects 1,437 Users in 12 Days to Deploy Surveillance Tools

https://gbhackers.com/zoom-update-scam/

 

Claude Code Flaws Exposed Developer Devices to Silent Hacking

https://www.securityweek.com/claude-code-flaws-exposed-developer-devices-to-silent-hacking/

 

Chinese Police Use ChatGPT to Smear Japan PM Takaichi

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/chinese-police-chatgpt-smear-japan-pm-takaichi

 

ZKsync Lite Network to Shut Down on May 4

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/296164999104290

 

The Conduent breach; from 10 million to 25 million (and counting)

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/the-conduent-breach-from-10-million-to-25-million-and-counting

 

Expert Recommends: Prepare for PQC Right Now

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/expert-recommends-prepare-for-pqc-right.html

 

Gold to take centre stage at PDAC, with some predicting prices will hit $10,000

https://financialpost.com/commodities/mining/gold-bugs-pdac-new-credibility

 

Previously harmless Google API keys now expose Gemini AI data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/previously-harmless-google-api-keys-now-expose-gemini-ai-data/

 

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters auditioning female voices to sharpen social engineering

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