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President Donald Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic on Friday, announcing it on Truth Social shortly before the Pentagon’s deadline for the AI startup to remove military usage restrictions on its Claude AI model. Trump wrote his social truth, “THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW …

Cybercriminals leaked over 1 million customer records from the Dutch telecom company Odido after their extortion attempt failed. The group ShinyHunters took responsibility for the attack, which resulted in data being released in two waves on February 25 and 26, 2026. The breach affected 688,100 accounts, exposing names, addresses, bank …

A 19 February 2026 FBI FLASH (FLASH-20260219-001) alerts banks and ATM operators about an increase in “jackpotting,” where criminals use malware to steal cash from machines without actual transactions, becoming a widespread issue in the U.S. The alert focuses on Ploutus, an ATM-targeting malware family that abuses eXtensions for Financial …

PentestAgent, an open-source AI framework by Masic (GH05TCREW), now offers improved features like prebuilt attack playbooks and easy HexStrike integration. A researcher known as GH05TCREW released a tool on GitHub that uses large language models (LLMs) like Claude Sonnet or GPT-5 through LiteLLM for advanced black-box security evaluations. PentestAgent uses …

Russia has attempted to completely block WhatsApp, according to the company. This is part of the government’s ongoing efforts to tighten internet control. A WhatsApp spokesperson said late Wednesday that the Russian authorities’ action was intended to “drive users to a state-owned surveillance app,” a reference to Russia’s own state-supported …

The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) uploaded sensitive contracting documents marked “for official use only” into the public version of ChatGPT last summer, triggering multiple automated security alerts designed to prevent data exfiltration from federal networks, four Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials told Politico. …

Fortinet customers are observing attackers exploiting a patch bypass for a previously fixed critical FortiGate authentication vulnerability (CVE-2025-59718) to hack patched firewalls. One affected admins said that Fortinet has allegedly confirmed that the latest FortiOS version (7.4.10) didn’t fully address this authentication bypass vulnerability, which should’ve been patched in early …

A critical zero-day flaw in Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) let attackers evade security measures and access protected servers via a certificate validation path. Security researchers at FearsOff found that requests to the /.well-known/acme-challenge/ directory bypassed customer-configured WAF rules that blocked other traffic. The Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol …

Three Senate Democrats urge Apple and Google to remove X and its chatbot Grok from their app stores due to the creation and distribution of explicit non-consensual images of women and children. Senators Ron Wyden from Oregon, Ed Markey from Massachusetts, and Ben Ray Luján from New Mexico called upon …

Ransomware activity is rising in 2026, with 121 confirmed victims from 310 active groups. A few key players dominate the fragmented landscape, with Qilin and Lynx each having over 20 victims. Sinobi is also significant, while familiar groups like Play, Akira, and Direwolf continue their attacks. New groups such as …