Wormable XMRig campaign leverages BYOVD and timed kill switch for stealth
Wormable XMRig campaign leverages BYOVD and timed kill switch for stealth Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2026 A wormable cryptojacking campaign...
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Microsoft Copilot Ignored Sensitivity Labels, Processed Confidential Emails
Image: Rawpixel/Envato For weeks, Microsoft 365 Copilot quietly read, summarized, and surfaced emails that organizations had explicitly marked as confidential....
Conduent Breach Surges to Over 25M, Could Be Largest in US History
Image: Adobe Stock The data breach that rocked government IT contractor Conduent back in January 2025 just keeps growing, and...
Why Anthropic’s Claude Code Security matters and what it means for Mend.io customers
TL;DR:Anthropic’s launch of Claude Code Security signals a major shift: AI is moving directly into the developer workflow as...
Romanian hacker pleads guilty to selling access to Oregon state networks
Romanian hacker pleads guilty to selling access to Oregon state networks Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2026 A Romanian man pleaded...
Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Early Arthropods’
via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD Permalink *** This is a Security...
Over 200K Australian Driver’s Licences Exposed in youX Cyber Breach
image: envato by Image-Source Sydney-based fintech platform youX has confirmed that unauthorized access to its systems led to the exposure...
CVE-2026-1731 fuels ongoing attacks on BeyondTrust remote access products
CVE-2026-1731 fuels ongoing attacks on BeyondTrust remote access products Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2026 Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-1731 in BeyondTrust...
Fake Huorong security site infects users with ValleyRAT
A convincing lookalike of the popular Huorong Security antivirus has been used to deliver ValleyRAT, a sophisticated Remote Access...
TikTok’s New U.S. Deal and Privacy Policy: What Users Don’t Understand
TikTok has shifted to a majority-American entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, LLC, to comply with U.S. national security requirements...
Anthropic unveils Claude Code Security to detect and fix code bugs
Anthropic unveils Claude Code Security to detect and fix code bugs Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2026 Anthropic launches Claude Code...
How are secrets protected in an Agentic AI-driven architecture
How Does Non-Human Identity Management Boost Security in AI Architecture? What is the role of Non-Human Identity (NHI) management...
Security Affairs newsletter Round 564 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Security Affairs newsletter Round 564 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION Pierluigi Paganini February 22, 2026 A new round of...
Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including...
What role does Agentic AI play in identity and access management
How Do Non-Human Identities Transform Cloud Security? Are your organization’s security measures keeping pace with evolving threats? The rise...
