Google blocked over 1.75 million Play Store app submissions in 2025
Google says that through 2025, it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user data and rejected over 1.75 million apps…
Month: February 2026
Why WA organisations are rethinking cloud strategy in 2026
Australia’s shift to public cloud is accelerating, and for organisations in Western Australia, the move comes with a distinct set of considerations. Geographic isolation, network…
Ukrainian sentenced to 5 years in prison for facilitating North Korean remote worker scheme
A Ukrainian national who ran multiple operations to aid the North Korean government’s expansive scheme to hire remote IT workers at U.S. companies was sentenced…
PromptSpy is the first known Android malware to use generative AI at runtime
Researchers have discovered the first known Android malware to use generative AI in its execution flow, using Google’s Gemini model to adapt its persistence across different…
An FBI ‘Asset’ Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years
“Lin cannot seriously dispute that the decision to allow opioid sales on Incognito was his own,” the prosecution’s filing reads. “And, Lin made that decision…
PromptSpy is the first Android malware to use generative AI at runtime
Researchers have discovered the first known Android malware to use generative AI in its execution flow, using Google’s Gemini model to adapt its persistence across different…
How Startups Can Build Smarter, Faster and Leaner
Not long ago, building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) meant assembling a small dev team, locking everyone in a sprint room for weeks, and hoping…
State Dept. official says post-quantum transition plans will outlive current leadership
A cybersecurity official at the State Department called for the public and private sector to more tightly coordinate plans to transition their systems, devices and…
ICO wins appeal over data protection obligations in Currys cyber attack
The Court of Appeal (CoA) has ruled in favour of the Information Commissioner’s Office in an appeal against a previous decision regarding the data protection…
Microsoft Patches CVE-2026-26119 Privilege Escalation in Windows Admin Center
Ravie LakshmananFeb 19, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Microsoft has disclosed a now-patched security flaw in Windows Admin Center that could allow an attacker to escalate…
ONCD official says Trump administration aims to bolster AI use for defense without increasing risk
The Trump administration wants to boost the use of artificial intelligence for security in a way that doesn’t increase the number of targets for adversaries…
Hackers Leveraging nslookup.exe to Stage Payloads via DNS Using Clickfix Attack
Clickfix Attack Using nslookup A sophisticated evolution of the ClickFix social engineering campaign, in which threat actors are now abusing the legitimate Windows utility nslookup.exe…