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Fake IPTV Apps Spread Massiv Android Malware Targeting Mobile Banking Users

Fake IPTV Apps Spread Massiv Android Malware Targeting Mobile Banking Users

Ravie LakshmananFeb 19, 2026Banking Malware / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android trojan called Massiv that’s designed to facilitate device takeover (DTO) attacks for financial theft. The malware, according to… 

CRESCENTHARVEST Campaign Targets Iran Protest Supporters With RAT Malware

CRESCENTHARVEST Campaign Targets Iran Protest Supporters With RAT Malware

Ravie LakshmananFeb 19, 2026Cyber Espionage / Data Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed CRESCENTHARVEST, likely targeting supporters of Iran’s ongoing protests to conduct information theft and long-term espionage. The Acronis… 

Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist’s Phone in Police Custody

Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist’s Phone in Police Custody

Ravie LakshmananFeb 18, 2026Mobile Security / Spyware New research from the Citizen Lab has found signs that Kenyan authorities used a commercial forensic extraction tool manufactured by Israeli company Cellebrite to break into a prominent… 

Grandstream GXP1600 VoIP Phones Exposed to Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Grandstream GXP1600 VoIP Phones Exposed to Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Ravie LakshmananFeb 18, 2026Network Security / Enterprise Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Grandstream GXP1600 series of VoIP phones that could allow an attacker to seize control of susceptible devices.… 

Critical Flaws Found in Four VS Code Extensions with Over 125 Million Installs

Critical Flaws Found in Four VS Code Extensions with Over 125 Million Installs

Ravie LakshmananFeb 18, 2026Vulnerability / Software Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in four popular Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to steal local… 

Dell RecoverPoint for VMs Zero-Day CVE-2026-22769 Exploited Since Mid-2024

Dell RecoverPoint for VMs Zero-Day CVE-2026-22769 Exploited Since Mid-2024

Ravie LakshmananFeb 18, 2026Zero-Day / Vulnerability A maximum severity security vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines has been exploited as a zero-day by a suspected China-nexus threat cluster dubbed UNC6201 since mid-2024, according to… 

Notepad++ Fixes Hijacked Update Mechanism Used to Deliver Targeted Malware

Notepad++ Fixes Hijacked Update Mechanism Used to Deliver Targeted Malware

Ravie LakshmananFeb 18, 2026Vulnerability / Application Security Notepad++ has released a security fix to plug gaps that were exploited by an advanced threat actor from China to hijack the software update mechanism to selectively deliver… 

CISA Flags Four Security Flaws Under Active Exploitation in Latest KEV Update

CISA Flags Four Security Flaws Under Active Exploitation in Latest KEV Update

Ravie LakshmananFeb 18, 2026Threat Intelligence / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the…