Latest news as of 2/19/2026, 11:57:19 PM
Bleeping Computer
CISA has issued a new emergency directive ordering U.S. federal agencies to secure their Cisco firewall devices against two flaws that have been exploited in zero-day attacks. [...]
The Register
Images of toddlers and home addresses leaked in reprehensible landmark attack A cyber criminal crew has targeted Kido International, a preschool and daycare organization, leaking sensitive details about its pupils and their parents.…
Bleeping Computer
Cisco warned customers today to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited in attacks and impact the company's firewall software. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle claims by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it used dark patterns to trick millions of users into enrolling in its Prime program and made it as difficult as possible to cancel the recurring subscriptions. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Two malicious packages with nearly 8,500 downloads in Rust's official crate repository scanned developers' systems to steal cryptocurrency private keys and other secrets. [...]
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical flaw impacting Salesforce Agentforce, a platform for building artificial intelligence (AI) agents, that could allow attackers to potentially exfiltrate sensitive data from its customer relationship management (CRM) tool by means of an indirect prompt injection. The vulnerability has been codenamed ForcedLeak (CVSS score: 9.4) by Noma Security,
Bleeping Computer
Passwords are weak links—88% of breaches involve stolen creds. Learn more from Specops Software about how passkeys deliver phishing resistance, simpler logins & lower support costs (with some hurdles to adoption). [...]
The Hacker News
The North Korea-linked threat actors associated with the Contagious Interview campaign have been attributed to a previously undocumented backdoor called AkdoorTea, along with tools like TsunamiKit and Tropidoor. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which is tracking the activity under the name DeceptiveDevelopment, said the campaign targets software developers across all operating systems, Windows,
Dark Reading
Outages affecting DevOps tools threaten to leave developers coding like it's 1999. How serious is the threat and what can companies do?
Bleeping Computer
A 17-year-old hacker who surrendered to face charges over cyberattacks targeting Vegas casinos in 2023 has been released into the custody of his parents, a family court judge ruled. [...]