Hacker used Anthropic's Claude chatbot to attack multiple government agencies in Mexico

Hacker used Anthropic's Claude chatbot to attack multiple government agencies in Mexico

• Trending: Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: Live updates on Galaxy S26 launch Alexa+ gets three new personality styles Apple event on March 4: What to expect Hands-on with Google’s P

Consumer Tech · February 25, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 237 words
Marquis sues SonicWall over backup breach that led to ransomware attack

Marquis sues SonicWall over backup breach that led to ransomware attack

• Marquis sues SonicWall over backup breach that led to ransomware attack February 25, 2026 10:54 AM 0 Marquis Software Solutions has filed a lawsuit against SonicWall, accusing th

Cybersecurity · February 25, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 237 words
New 'Sandworm_Mode' Supply Chain Attack Hits NPM

New 'Sandworm_Mode' Supply Chain Attack Hits NPM

• Security researchers have uncovered a new supply chain attack targeting the NPM registry with malicious code that exhibits worm-like propagation capabilities.DubbedSandworm_Mode,

Cybersecurity · February 24, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 387 words
GitHub Issues Abused in Copilot Attack Leading to Repository Takeover

GitHub Issues Abused in Copilot Attack Leading to Repository Takeover

• A vulnerability in GitHub Codespaces could have allowed attackers to take over repositories by injecting malicious Copilot instructions in a GitHub issue.The attack, Orca Securit

Cybersecurity · February 24, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 381 words
Ad tech firm Optimizely confirms data breach after vishing attack

Ad tech firm Optimizely confirms data breach after vishing attack

• Ad tech firm Optimizely confirms data breach after vishing attack February 23, 2026 01:04 PM 0 New York-based ad tech company Optimizely has notified an undisclosed number of cus

Cybersecurity · February 23, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 3 min · 519 words
Trump crypto company says 'coordinated attack' on stablecoin failed

Trump crypto company says 'coordinated attack' on stablecoin failed

• Trump crypto company says ‘coordinated attack’ on stablecoin failed The price of World Liberty Financial’s token dipped about 7% early on Monday, later reported to be the result

FinTech · February 23, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 346 words

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial says USD1 short and social media attack fails as stablecoin briefly dips

• USD1 briefly fell to about $0.99707 on Monday morning, a drop that typically would not be considered a stablecoin depeg.

Trump-linked stablecoin wobbles as WLFI says it's under 'coordinated attack'

Trump-linked stablecoin wobbles as WLFI says it's under 'coordinated attack'

• Trump-linked stablecoin wobbles as WLFI says it’s under ‘coordinated attack’ The USD1 token briefly fell to $0.994, some 0.6% below its $1 peg, CoinGecko data shows. • What to kn

Mississippi Hospital System Closes All Clinics After Ransomware Attack

Mississippi Hospital System Closes All Clinics After Ransomware Attack

• A ransomware attack forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center to close all of its roughly three dozen clinics around the state and cancel elective procedures for a seco

Cybersecurity · February 23, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 370 words
JPMorgan concedes it debanked Trump after Capitol attack

JPMorgan concedes it debanked Trump after Capitol attack

• JPMorgan concedes it debanked Trump after Capitol attack Court documents indicate that JPMorgan de-banked Trump, with debanking one of the main reasons the Trump family turned to

FinTech · February 23, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 255 words
What About the Droid Attack on the Repos?

What About the Droid Attack on the Repos?

• You might not have noticed, but we here at Hackaday are pretty big fans of Open Source - software, hardware, you name it. • We’ve also spilled our fair share of electronic ink on

Exploding rounds turn Apache attack copter into a drone hunter

Exploding rounds turn Apache attack copter into a drone hunter

• Exploding rounds turn Apache attack copter into a drone hunter Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email The US Army is turning its AH-64 Apache attack helicopter into a d

'God-Like' Attack Machines: AI Agents Ignore Security Policies

• Microsoft Copilot recently summarized and leaked user emails; but any AI agent will go above and beyond to complete assigned tasks, even breaking through their carefully designed

Cybersecurity · February 20, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 1 min · 136 words
Japanese tech giant Advantest hit by ransomware attack

Japanese tech giant Advantest hit by ransomware attack

• Japanese tech giant Advantest hit by ransomware attack February 20, 2026 01:30 PM 0 Advantest Corporation disclosed that its corporate network has been targeted in a ransomware a

Cybersecurity · February 20, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 249 words
Cline CLI 2.3.0 Supply Chain Attack Installed OpenClaw on Developer Systems

Cline CLI 2.3.0 Supply Chain Attack Installed OpenClaw on Developer Systems

• Cline CLI 2.3.0 Supply Chain Attack Installed OpenClaw on Developer Systems In yet another software supply chain attack, the open-source, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cod

Cybersecurity · February 20, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 301 words
Mississippi medical center closes all clinics after ransomware attack

Mississippi medical center closes all clinics after ransomware attack

• The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) closed all its clinic locations statewide on Thursday following a ransomware attack. • UMMC has over 10,000 employees and, as

Cybersecurity · February 20, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 240 words
Supply Chain Attack Secretly Installs OpenClaw for Cline Users

Supply Chain Attack Secretly Installs OpenClaw for Cline Users

• Application Security Cyber Risk Cyberattacks & Data Breaches Vulnerabilities & Threats News Supply Chain Attack Secretly Installs OpenClaw for Cline Users The malicious version o

Cybersecurity · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 271 words

Poxvirus attack of antiviral defense pathways unleashes an effector-triggered NF-κB response

• Science, Volume 391, Issue 6786, February 2026.

Science · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 10 words

Rare fossil at Montana museum records Tyrannosaurus attack

• A fossil on display at Montana State University’s Museum of the Rockies reveals how dinosaurs in the Tyrannosaurus genus may have subdued prey, and the specimen is the focus of a

Science · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 177 words

Supply Chain Attack Embeds Malware in Android Devices

• Keenadu downloads payloads that hijack browser searches, commit ad fraud, and execute other actions without user knowledge.

Cybersecurity · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 105 words

Poland Energy Survives Attack on Wind, Solar Infrastructure

• Russia-aligned groups are probable culprits behind the wiper attacks against renewable energy farms, a manufacturer, and a heating and power plant.

Cybersecurity · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 113 words
US Apache attack helicopter shoots new 30mm rounds to blow up drones midair

US Apache attack helicopter shoots new 30mm rounds to blow up drones midair

• US Apache attack helicopter shoots new 30mm rounds to blow up drones midair The proximity-fuzed XM1225 detonates near targets, widening its lethal radius against air and ground t

Microsoft Warns of ClickFix Attack Abusing DNS Lookups

Microsoft Warns of ClickFix Attack Abusing DNS Lookups

• Microsoft has warned users that threat actors are leveraging a new variant of the ClickFix technique to deliver malware.TheClickFixattack method has been increasingly used in the

Cybersecurity · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 354 words
New Chrome Zero-Day (CVE-2026-2441) Under Active Attack - Patch Released

New Chrome Zero-Day (CVE-2026-2441) Under Active Attack - Patch Released

• New Chrome Zero-Day (CVE-2026-2441) Under Active Attack - Patch Released Google on Friday released security updates for its Chrome browser to address a security flaw that it said

Cybersecurity · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 4 min · 709 words
New ClickFix attack abuses nslookup to retrieve PowerShell payload via DNS

New ClickFix attack abuses nslookup to retrieve PowerShell payload via DNS

• Threat actors are now abusing DNS queries as part of ClickFix social engineering attacks to deliver malware, making this the first known use of DNS as a channel in these campaign

Cybersecurity · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 276 words
Pastebin comments push ClickFix JavaScript attack to hijack crypto swaps

Pastebin comments push ClickFix JavaScript attack to hijack crypto swaps

• Pastebin comments push ClickFix JavaScript attack to hijack crypto swaps February 15, 2026 10:17 AM 0 Threat actors are abusing Pastebin comments to distribute a new ClickFix-sty

Cybersecurity · February 15, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 295 words
Microsoft Discloses DNS-Based ClickFix Attack Using Nslookup for Malware Staging

Microsoft Discloses DNS-Based ClickFix Attack Using Nslookup for Malware Staging

• Microsoft has disclosed details of a new version of the ClickFix social engineering tactic in which the attackers trick unsuspecting users into running commands that carry out a

Cybersecurity · February 15, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 310 words

PP096: Taking Note of a Notepad++ Attack; Telnet and NTLM Are Still a Thing?

• PP096: Taking Note of a Notepad++ Attack; Telnet and NTLM Are Still a Thing? • Podcast:Download(47.0MB) |Embed Jennifer (JJ)Minella DrewConry-Murray Everything old is new again i

A one-prompt attack that breaks LLM safety alignment

A one-prompt attack that breaks LLM safety alignment

• Share Link copied to clipboard! • Content types Research Topics Actionable threat insights AI and agents Security management Large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models now

Cybersecurity · February 9, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 343 words
2025 Q4 DDoS threat report: A record-setting 31.4 Tbps attack caps a year of massive DDoS assaults

2025 Q4 DDoS threat report: A record-setting 31.4 Tbps attack caps a year of massive DDoS assaults

• Welcome to the 24th edition of Cloudflareâs Quarterly DDoS Threat Report. • In this report, Cloudforce One offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of Dis

Engineering Blogs · February 5, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 251 words
The Notepad++ supply chain attack - unnoticed execution chains and new IoCs

The Notepad++ supply chain attack - unnoticed execution chains and new IoCs

• UPD 11.02.2026: added recommendations on how to use the Notepad++ supply chain attack rules package in our SIEM system. • Introduction On February 2, 2026, the developers of Note

Cybersecurity · February 3, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 269 words
Supply chain attack on eScan antivirus: detecting and remediating malicious updates

Supply chain attack on eScan antivirus: detecting and remediating malicious updates

• UPD 30.01.2026: Added technical details about the attack chain and more IoCs. • On January 20, a supply chain attack has occurred, with the infected software being the eScan anti

Cybersecurity · January 29, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 215 words
Anatomy of an Attack: The Payroll Pirates and the Power of Social Engineering

Anatomy of an Attack: The Payroll Pirates and the Power of Social Engineering

• Threat Research Center Insights Anatomy of an Attack Anatomy of an Attack: The Payroll Pirates and the Power of Social Engineering By:Randy Stone Randy Stone Published:January 16

Cybersecurity · January 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 255 words
Breaking Down the Attack Surface of the Kenwood DNR1007XR - Part One

Breaking Down the Attack Surface of the Kenwood DNR1007XR - Part One

• Breaking Down the Attack Surface of the Kenwood DNR1007XR - Part One For the upcoming Pwn2Own Automotive contest, a total of 3 head units have been selected. • One of these is th