Polish police detain alleged cybercriminal with Phobos ransomware ties
The Record reports: A 47-year-old man was arrested in Poland for his alleged involvement with the Phobos ransomware operation. …
February 18, 2026
The Record reports: A 47-year-old man was arrested in Poland for his alleged involvement with the Phobos ransomware operation. …
Bleeping Computer reports: South Korea has fined luxury fashion brands Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior Couture, and Tiffany $25 million for
A press release from the Texas State Attorney General: Attorney General Ken Paxton issued Civil Investigative Demands (“CIDs”) to Blue
TechCrunch reports: Coupang’s massive data breach in South Korea has now become a geopolitical flashpoint as a growing number of the company’s
Top Class Actions reports: Read more at Top Class Actions. The official settlement website has not been posted yet. All
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The International Business Times reports: Discord is preparing to enforce a global age verification system from early March that will
From Polsinelli PC: In two separate but related actions, third party administrators (TPAs) and their insurance business partners agreed to
An article by Josh Taylor of Fortra begins: Ransomware groups are increasingly inserting AI bots into the negotiation loop to triage victims, collect leverage and scale their operations. At Fortra, I have observed a growing trend of attackers deploying chatbots for first contact, with humans stepping in only after certain thresholds are met. This approach allows criminal organizations to manage multiple simultaneous negotiations efficiently while reserving human effort for the most profitable cases. AI enables attackers to bridge language barriers, present
The Record reports: A Chinese state-backed hacking group is targeting Dell customers with a zero-day vulnerability impacting a popular line of operational and disaster recovery tools. Dell and Google released notices on Tuesday about CVE-2026-22769, warning that a sophisticated Chinese actor has been targeting the bug since at least mid-2024. Dell’s advisory said the vulnerability carries a severity score of 10 out of 10 and provided fixes for the issue. The advisory notes Google’s findings of “limited active exploitation.” Google-owned security firm
A press release from the Texas State Attorney General: Attorney General Ken Paxton issued Civil Investigative Demands (“CIDs”) to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas (“BCBS”) and Conduent Business Services LLC (“Conduent”), demanding documents and information pertinent to the investigation of the Conduent data breach that exposed the sensitive personal data of approximately four million Texans. The Office of the Attorney General is investigating the breach of Conduent’s system security that occurred between October 21, 2024 through January 13, 2025.
When the spyer becomes the spyee? TechBuzz reports: A hacktivist just turned the tables on half a million people who paid to spy on others. More than 536,000 payment records from customers of phone surveillance apps like uMobix, Xnspy, and Geofinder hit the open web this week, exposing email addresses and partial card numbers of people who bought access to stalk spouses, partners, and family members. The breach highlights how stalkerware vendors – companies that profit from illegal surveillance –
It’s not just those with millions of dollars in cryptocurrency who are at risk of violent kidnappings these days. Bloomberg News recently reported on a terrifying case: The pecking at the sliding glass door awoke Julia Goodwin shortly before midnight. She and her husband, Glenn, retirees in their 60s, first thought the noise might be coming from a bird who’d fallen from the palms outside their stucco one-bedroom home in Delray Beach, Florida, maybe one like their pet parrot, Kiwi,
InfoSecurity Magazine reports: Security researchers observed a 30% annual increase in ransomware victims listed on extortion sites last year, with
Bleeping Computer reports: South Korea has fined luxury fashion brands Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior Couture, and Tiffany $25 million for
TechCrunch reports: A security lapse by one of India’s largest pharmacy chains allowed outsiders to gain full administrative control of
The Register reports: The number of successful cyber insurance claims made by UK organizations shot up last year, according to
Insurance Business Magazine reports: A Texas woman has sued Goosehead Insurance Agency over a data breach that exposed sensitive customer
The Record reports: A Chinese state-backed hacking group is targeting Dell customers with a zero-day vulnerability impacting a popular line
An article by Josh Taylor of Fortra begins: Ransomware groups are increasingly inserting AI bots into the negotiation loop to triage victims, collect leverage and scale their operations. At Fortra, I have observed a growing trend of attackers deploying chatbots for first contact, with humans stepping in only after certain thresholds are met. This approach allows criminal organizations to manage multiple simultaneous negotiations efficiently while reserving human effort for the most profitable cases. AI enables attackers to bridge language barriers, present
The Record reports: A Chinese state-backed hacking group is targeting Dell customers with a zero-day vulnerability impacting a popular line of operational and disaster recovery tools. Dell and Google released notices on Tuesday about CVE-2026-22769, warning that a sophisticated Chinese actor has been targeting the bug since at least mid-2024. Dell’s advisory said the vulnerability carries a severity score of 10 out of 10 and provided fixes for the issue. The advisory notes Google’s findings of “limited active exploitation.” Google-owned security firm
A press release from the Texas State Attorney General: Attorney General Ken Paxton issued Civil Investigative Demands (“CIDs”) to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas (“BCBS”) and Conduent Business Services LLC (“Conduent”), demanding documents and information pertinent to the investigation of the Conduent data breach that exposed the sensitive personal data of approximately four million Texans. The Office of the Attorney General is investigating the breach of Conduent’s system security that occurred between October 21, 2024 through January 13, 2025.
When the spyer becomes the spyee? TechBuzz reports: A hacktivist just turned the tables on half a million people who paid to spy on others. More than 536,000 payment records from customers of phone surveillance apps like uMobix, Xnspy, and Geofinder hit the open web this week, exposing email addresses and partial card numbers of people who bought access to stalk spouses, partners, and family members. The breach highlights how stalkerware vendors – companies that profit from illegal surveillance –
The Record reports: A 47-year-old man was arrested in Poland for his alleged involvement with the Phobos ransomware operation. …
Bleeping Computer reports: South Korea has fined luxury fashion brands Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior Couture, and Tiffany $25 million for
A press release from the Texas State Attorney General: Attorney General Ken Paxton issued Civil Investigative Demands (“CIDs”) to Blue
TechCrunch reports: Coupang’s massive data breach in South Korea has now become a geopolitical flashpoint as a growing number of the company’s
Top Class Actions reports: Read more at Top Class Actions. The official settlement website has not been posted yet. All
Miscellaneous News
The International Business Times reports: Discord is preparing to enforce a global age verification system from early March that will
From Polsinelli PC: In two separate but related actions, third party administrators (TPAs) and their insurance business partners agreed to
InfoSecurity Magazine reports: Security researchers observed a 30% annual increase in ransomware victims listed on extortion sites last year, with
Bleeping Computer reports: South Korea has fined luxury fashion brands Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior Couture, and Tiffany $25 million for
TechCrunch reports: A security lapse by one of India’s largest pharmacy chains allowed outsiders to gain full administrative control of
The Register reports: The number of successful cyber insurance claims made by UK organizations shot up last year, according to
Insurance Business Magazine reports: A Texas woman has sued Goosehead Insurance Agency over a data breach that exposed sensitive customer
The Record reports: A Chinese state-backed hacking group is targeting Dell customers with a zero-day vulnerability impacting a popular line
