Security Affairs newsletter Round 563 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2026

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International Press – Newsletter

Cybercrime

Romanian oil pipeline operator Conpet discloses cyberattack

Flickr Security Incident Tied to Third-Party Email System

Senegal’s File Automation Directorate Hit by Cyberattack, Hackers Claim 139TB Data Breach

Odido warns of data breach: millions of customer data stolen in cyber attack

BADIIS to the Bone: New Insights to a Global SEO Poisoning Campaign

Malware

Threat Alert: TeamPCP, An Emerging Force in the Cloud Native and Ransomware Landscape

Reynolds: Defense Evasion Capability Embedded in Ransomware Payload

AgreeToSteal: The First Malicious Outlook Add-In Leads to 4,000 Stolen Credentials

Fake recruiter campaign targets crypto devs

Hacking

Active Exploitation of SolarWinds Web Help Desk

CVE-2026-1731: Pre-Auth RCE in BeyondTrust Remote Support & PRA

Hacker Conversations: Professional Hacker Douglas Day

Apple Fixes Exploited Zero-Day Affecting iOS, macOS, and Apple Devices

Reconnaissance Has Begun for the New BeyondTrust RCE (CVE-2026-1731): Here’s What We See So Far

2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died

Intelligence and Information Warfare

Largest Multi-Agency Cyber Operation Mounted to Counter Threat Posed by Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Actor UNC3886 to Singapore’s Telecommunications Sector

Dutch Authorities Confirm Ivanti Zero-Day Exploit Exposed Employee Contact Data

Stan Ghouls targeting Russia and Uzbekistan with NetSupport RAT

Russia’s hybrid attacks throughout Europe are becoming more dangerous

UNC1069 Targets Cryptocurrency Sector with New Tooling and AI-Enabled Social Engineering

North Korean IT workers are secretly employed in Norwegian companies

GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Distillation, Experimentation, and (Continued) Integration of AI for Adversarial Use

New threat actor, UAT-9921, leverages VoidLink framework in campaigns

Beyond the Battlefield: Threats to the Defense Industrial Base

Fake recruiter campaign targets crypto devs

Cybersecurity

Commission responds to cyber-attack on its central mobile infrastructure

The February 2026 Security Update Review

Conduent Breach Hits Volvo Group: Nearly 17,000 Employees’ Data Exposed

Hacker linked to Epstein removed from Black Hat cyber conference website

Fintech lending giant Figure confirms data breach

Weaponising AI: The New Cyber Attack Surface

Russia tries to block WhatsApp, Telegram in communication blockade

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