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…
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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…
INTERPOL Operation Red Card 2.0 Arrests 651 in African Cybercrime Crackdown
Ravie LakshmananFeb 19, 2026Financial Crime / Cybercrime An international cybercrime operation against online scams has led to 651 arrests and recovered more than $4.3 million…
Germany’s rail operator Deutsche Bahn hit by a DDoS attack
Germany’s national rail operator Deutsche Bahn hit by a DDoS attack Pierluigi Paganini February 19, 2026 Germany’s national rail operator, Deutsche Bahn, suffered a major…
FBI: Threats from Salt Typhoon are ‘still very much ongoing’
A top FBI cyber official said Salt Typhoon, the Chinese cyber espionage group behind the widespread compromise of U.S. telecommunications infrastructure in 2024, continues to…
Threat Actors Using Fake Google Forms Site to Harvest Google Logins
A new phishing campaign is targeting job seekers through fake Google Forms websites designed to steal login credentials. The campaign uses sophisticated domain impersonation techniques…
PromptSpy Android Malware Abuses Gemini AI to Automate Recent-Apps Persistence
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is the first Android malware that abuses Gemini, Google’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, as part of its…
Fair Work Commission bogged down by AI filings
Australia’s Fair Work Commission is struggling with the volume of AI-assisted filings and appeals it now receives, with the “workload pressure” impacting its ability to…
A Simple Framework for Being Anti-Fragile
Three things you need to thrive in a world that keeps changing February 19, 2026 I just thought of a simple framework for becoming anti-fragile…
HHS burrows into identifying risks to health sector from third-party vendors
A Department of Health and Human Services official said Thursday that HHS is devoting a lot of attention to the security of third-party service providers…