7 days until ticket prices rise for Disrupt 2026
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February 2026
February 2026
AI-Assisted Threat Actor Compromises 600+ FortiGate Devices in 55 Countries
A Russian-speaking, financially motivated threat actor has been observed taking advantage of commercial generative artificial intelligence (AI) services to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices located in 55 countries. That’s according to new findings from Amazon…
Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security for AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanning
Ravie LakshmananFeb 21, 2026Artificial Intelligence / DevSecOps Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has begun to roll out a new security feature for Claude Code that can scan a user’s software codebase for vulnerabilities and suggest…
CISA Adds Two Actively Exploited Roundcube Flaws to KEV Catalog
Ravie LakshmananFeb 21, 2026Vulnerability / Patch Management The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Roundcube webmail software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of…
EC-Council Expands AI Certification Portfolio to Strengthen U.S. AI Workforce Readiness and Security
With $5.5 trillion in global AI risk exposure and 700,000 U.S. workers needing reskilling, four new AI certifications and Certified CISO v4 help close the gap between AI adoption and workforce readiness. EC-Council, creator of…
Ukrainian man jailed for identity theft that helped North Koreans get jobs at US companies
A U.S. federal court has sentenced a Ukrainian man to five years in prison for his part in a long-running identity theft operation that helped overseas North Korean workers gain fraudulent employment at dozens of…
Get a free storage upgrade with this M5 MacBook Pro deal
Listen, we love MacBooks around here, but we hate paying Apple’s storage upgrade prices. That’s why today’s deal is so good: B&H Photo is selling the M5 MacBook Pro with 1TB of storage space for…
BeyondTrust Flaw Used for Web Shells, Backdoors, and Data Exfiltration
Ravie LakshmananFeb 20, 2026Vulnerability / Cyber Attack Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products to conduct a wide range…
Cline CLI 2.3.0 Supply Chain Attack Installed OpenClaw on Developer Systems
In yet another software supply chain attack, the open-source, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cline CLI was updated to stealthily install OpenClaw, a self-hosted autonomous AI agent that has become exceedingly popular in the past…
Dwindling M1 Air stock points to imminent release of a budget MacBook
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports that Walmart has stopped selling M1 MacBook Air units with most models out of stock, suggesting Apple is phasing out the current budget laptop. This…