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Silicon Valley Engineers Indicted for Alleged Trade Secret Theft From Google and Tech Firms

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cyber security, Cyber Security News, Google

Federal authorities arrested three Silicon Valley engineers on Thursday, charging them with conspiring to steal trade secrets from Google and other tech giants. The case highlights growing insider threats in the chip design sector, where foreign adversaries could exploit sensitive data on processor security and cryptography. Samaneh Ghandali, 41, her husband Mohammadjavad Khosravi (aka Mohammad […]

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Critical Jenkins Flaw Exposes Build Environments to XSS Attacks

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cyber security, Cyber Security News, Cyber-Attacks, vulnerability, XSS Attacks

A popular open-source automation server used by developers worldwide to build, test, and deploy software faces serious security risks from recent flaws. On February 18, 2026, two vulnerabilities were detailed in the core Jenkins software. The most critical issue is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could allow attackers to inject malicious scripts into […]

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Cline CLI 2.3.0 Supply Chain Attack Installed OpenClaw on Developer Systems

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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 few months. “On February 17, 2026, at 3:26 AM PT, an unauthorized party used a compromised npm publish token to publish an update to Cline CLI

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Cybercrime Magazine Releases Its First YouTube Short, More On The Way

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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine

Sausalito, Calif. – Feb. 20, 2026

–Watch the YouTube video

The award-winning Cybercrime Magazine YouTube Channel released its first Short last month and the video has more than 720,000 Views.

In less than two minutes, our host Taylor Fox told the story:

In the 1980s, a woman named Leslie Lynn Doucette and her network of teen hackers stole over $1.6 million without robbing a single bank. Online, she went by the alias ‘Kyrie’ and was later given a nickname that stuck forever: The Queen of The Hackers. Today, Doucette’s whereabouts are unknown, but the internet we know now? It was shaped, in part, by the Queen of the Hackers. [ more… ]

Our trial is complete and our audience has spoken. You want Shorts and we’ll be producing a lot more of them. Stay tuned!

The Cybercrime Magazine YouTube Channel has 1.2 million subscribers and many more viewers globally. In 2025, YouTube’s CEO presented us with a Gold Creator Award.

Watch the Video

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Google Blocks 1.75 Million Malicious Apps from Entering Play Store

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cyber security, Cyber Security News, Google

Google has revealed that it blocked more than 1.75 million malicious or policy‑violating Android apps from reaching users through the Play Store in 2025, highlighting a major AI‑driven push to secure the mobile ecosystem against malware, fraud, and privacy abuse. More than 80,000 “bad” developer accounts were also banned, cutting off repeat offenders who tried […]

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Grandstream VoIP Phones Vulnerability Grants Attackers Root Privileges

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cyber security, Cyber Security News, vulnerability

A critical unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2329, affecting Grandstream GXP1600 series VoIP phones. The vulnerability, rated as critical with a CVSS score of 9.8, allows remote attackers to gain root privileges on the affected devices without authentication. At its core, this is a classic memory corruption vulnerability. By sending specially crafted network packets to the target VoIP phone, an attacker […]

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CharlieKirk Grabber Malware Targets Windows Systems to Steal Login Credentials

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cyber security, Cyber Security News, Malware, Windows

CharlieKirk Grabber is a Python-based Windows infostealer that focuses on rapid “smash‑and‑grab” credential theft and data exfiltration rather than long-term system control or destructive behavior. It targets browser‑stored passwords, Wi‑Fi keys, Discord tokens, and gaming sessions, then exfiltrates the collected data via third‑party file hosting and encrypted Discord or Telegram channels. File Name CharlieKirk.exe File […]

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ClickFix Campaign Abuses Compromised Sites to Deploy MIMICRAT Malware

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ClickFix campaign that abuses compromised legitimate sites to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) called MIMICRAT (aka AstarionRAT). “The campaign demonstrates a high level of operational sophistication: compromised sites spanning multiple industries and geographies serve as delivery infrastructure, a multi-stage

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FBI Issues Emergency Alert as Ploutus Malware Drains U.S. ATMs Without Cards or Accounts

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cyber security, Cyber Security News, Malware

Ploutus malware is powering a new wave of “jackpotting” attacks that drain U.S. ATMs without needing a bank card, customer account, or bank authorization, prompting the FBI to issue an emergency FLASH alert to financial institutions nationwide. According to the FBI alert, threat actors are using Ploutus and related ATM jackpotting malware to control cash […]

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Identity Cyber Scores: The New Metric Shaping Cyber Insurance in 2026

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With one in three cyber-attacks now involving compromised employee accounts, insurers and regulators are placing far greater emphasis on identity posture when assessing cyber risk. For many organizations, however, these assessments remain largely opaque. Elements such as password hygiene, privileged access management, and the extent of multi-factor authentication (MFA) coverage are

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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine