Category: Bleeping Computer

TP-Link
19
Feb
2026

Texas sues TP-Link over Chinese hacking risks, user deception

Texas sued networking giant TP-Link Systems, accusing the company of deceptively marketing its routers as secure while allowing Chinese state-backed…

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Arrest
19
Feb
2026

Police arrests 651 suspects in African cybercrime crackdown

African law enforcement agencies arrested 651 suspects and recovered over $4.3 million in a joint operation targeting investment fraud, mobile…

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New
19
Feb
2026

New ‘Massiv’ Android banking malware poses as an IPTV app

A new Android banking malware, which researchers named Massiv, is posing as an IPTV app to steal digital identities and…

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Critical infra Honeywell CCTVs vulnerable to auth bypass flaw
19
Feb
2026

Critical infra Honeywell CCTVs vulnerable to auth bypass flaw

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a critical vulnerability in multiple Honeywell CCTV products that…

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AI platforms can be abused for stealthy malware communication
18
Feb
2026

AI platforms can be abused for stealthy malware communication

AI assistants like Grok and Microsoft Copilot with web browsing and URL-fetching capabilities can be abused to intermediate command-and-control (C2)…

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Exchange Online
18
Feb
2026

Anti-phishing rules mistakenly blocked emails, Teams messages

Microsoft says an Exchange Online issue that mistakenly quarantined legitimate emails last week was triggered by faulty heuristic detection rules designed…

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Flare header showing a cybery tunnel
18
Feb
2026

Telegram channels expose rapid weaponization of SmarterMail flaws

Flare researchers monitoring underground Telegram channels and cybercrime forums have observed threat actors rapidly sharing proof-of-concept exploits, offensive tools, and…

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Figure
18
Feb
2026

Data breach at fintech firm Figure affects nearly 1 million accounts

Hackers have stolen the personal and contact information of nearly 1 million accounts after breaching the systems of Figure Technology…

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Microsoft Copilot
18
Feb
2026

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January,…

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Drug skull
18
Feb
2026

Glendale man gets 5 years in prison for role in darknet drug ring

​A Glendale man was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for his role in a darknet drug trafficking…

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Spain orders NordVPN and ProtonVPN to block LaLiga stream piracy
18
Feb
2026

Spain orders NordVPN, ProtonVPN to block LaLiga piracy sites

A Spanish court has granted precautionary measures against NordVPN and ProtonVPN, ordering the two popular VPN providers to block 16…

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Spain orders NordVPN and ProtonVPN to block LaLiga stream piracy
18
Feb
2026

Spain orders NordVPN and ProtonVPN to block LaLiga stream piracy

A Spanish court has granted precautionary measures against NordVPN and ProtonVPN, ordering the two popular VPN providers to block 16…

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