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Cyber News
Microsoft Rushes Emergency Patch for Office Zero-Day
Microsoft has rushed out an emergency patch for a security vulnerability in multiple versions of Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 that attackers are actively exploiting.
darkreading.com
City of New Britain hit with a ransomware attack
New Britain officials confirmed that a ransomware attack knocked out internet access at City Hall.
wfsb.com
WinRAR vulnerability still a go-to tool for hackers, Mandiant warns
APTs and financially motivated attackers continue leveraging WinRAR vulnerability (CVE-2025-8088) that's been fixed over half a year ago.
helpnetsecurity.com
CISA Updates KEV Catalog with Four Actively Exploited Software Vulnerabilities
CISA added four actively exploited vulnerabilities to its KEV catalog, urging U.S. federal agencies to apply fixes by February 12, 2026.
thehackernews.com
Trump signs executive order for single national AI regulation standard, limiting power of states
President Trump's executive order, which limits the power of states in regulating AI, is a win for big tech companies that have lobbied for a federal standard.
cnbc.com
Some AI apps leak loads of your data — see the worst offenders
A new repository called Firehound exposes AI apps leaking user data. See if anything you downloaded from the App Store is among them.
cultofmac.com
These iPhone AI apps expose your data, and they're all over the App Store
The Firehound Project is a public registry that hunts down AI apps that expose user data—and there are a ton of them.
macworld.com
Over 10,000 Docker Hub images found leaking credentials, auth keys
More than 10,000 Docker Hub container images expose data that should be protected, including live credentials to production systems, CI/CD databases, or LLM model keys.
bleepingcomputer.com
New OpenAI models likely pose "high" cybersecurity risk
OpenAI says the cyber capabilities of its frontier AI models are accelerating and warns Wednesday that upcoming models are likely to pose a "high" risk, in a report shared first with Axios.
axios.com
