Latest news as of 2/17/2026, 4:51:10 AM
Bleeping Computer
Kerberoasting gives attackers offline paths to crack service account password, without triggering alerts. Learn from Specops Software how to protect your Active Directory with stronger SPN password policies and reduced attack surfaces. [...]
Dark Reading
The operators of the popular and prolific malware wasted no time in regrouping after an FBI takedown in May, and they're back to their old tricks.
Bleeping Computer
OpenAI is testing a new 'Study together' feature, and today, a new announcement within the ChatGPT web app confirms it. [...]
The Register
Hand us the mind bleach, we want to flush our memories of attack Clorox is suing its service desk provider, Cognizant, for $380 million in a California state court, alleging the IT support crew "enabled a cybercriminal to gain a foothold in Clorox's network" by handing over staffers' passwords to attackers after they simply requested them.…
Bleeping Computer
OpenAI has had enough of Google's Veo 3 dominating generative AI videos and is now working on Sora 2, the successor to Sora. [...]
Bleeping Computer
The suspected administrator of the Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is was arrested by the Ukrainian authorities yesterday at the request of the Paris public prosecutor's office. [...]
Bleeping Computer
CISA has warned that attackers are actively exploiting two security vulnerabilities in the SysAid IT service management (ITSM) software to hijack administrator accounts. [...]
The Hacker News
The Windows banking trojan known as Coyote has become the first known malware strain to exploit the Windows accessibility framework called UI Automation (UIA) to harvest sensitive information. "The new Coyote variant is targeting Brazilian users, and uses UIA to extract credentials linked to 75 banking institutes' web addresses and cryptocurrency exchanges," Akamai security researcher Tomer
Bleeping Computer
npm has taken down all versions of the Stylus library and replaced them with a "security holding" page, breaking pipelines and builds worldwide that rely on the package. [...]
The Register
Total Recall: Capturing everything you do on your PC screen to become a 'true companion' Microsoft is again throwing AI at Windows 11 to see what sticks, releasing features including the even more eyebrow-raising successor to its controversial Recall, a screen-streaming remotely processed backseat driver dubbed Copilot Vision.…