Latest news as of 2/16/2026, 12:50:09 PM
Dark Reading
Though the company is informing its customers of the breach, Farmers isn't publicly divulging what kinds of personal data were affected.
Dark Reading
Researchers say the huge spike of coordinated scanning for Microsoft RDP services could indicate the existence of a new, as-yet-undisclosed vulnerability.
The Register
Remember that cost-cutting group once led by Elon Musk? Federal employees are still dealing with it A Social Security Administration employee has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that Donald Trump's DOGE cost-cutting unit has put the records of every single American at risk by duplicating an agency database in an unauthorized cloud environment. …
Dark Reading
The flaw is one of three that the company disclosed affecting its NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway technologies.
Dark Reading
The "incident" led to outages affecting a variety of the tech company's operations, though the full scope of the breach is unknown.
The Register
'Many dozens' targeted in ongoing campaign, CheckPoint researcher tells The Reg Cybercriminals are targeting critical US manufacturers and supply-chain companies, looking to steal sensitive IP and other data while deploying ransomware. Their attack involves a novel twist on phishing — and a photo of White House butlers. …
Bleeping Computer
Hackers breached sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens from its Drift chat agent integration with Salesforce to pivot to customer environments and exfiltrate data. The ShinyHunters extortion group claims responsibility for these additional Salesforce attacks. [...]
Dark Reading
New features to take over smartphones and monitor user activity demonstrate the continued evolution of the malware, which is now being spread on GitHub.
The Hacker News
A team of academics has devised a novel attack that can be used to downgrade a 5G connection to a lower generation without relying on a rogue base station (gNB). The attack, per the ASSET (Automated Systems SEcuriTy) Research Group at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), relies on a new open-source software toolkit named Sni5Gect (short for "Sniffing 5G Inject") that's
The Hacker News
Citrix has released fixes to address three security flaws in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including one that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2025-7775 (CVSS score: 9.2) - Memory overflow vulnerability leading to Remote Code Execution and/or Denial-of-Service CVE-2025-7776 (CVSS score: 8.8) - Memory overflow