Algorithmic Warfare in the Iran Conflict: Operation Epic Fury and Dawn of the AI Battlefield
Frédéric Lemieux / hstoday - On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury / Operation Roaring Lion, a joint military campaign against Iran that fundamentally altered the strategic landscape of the Middle East.
- Camera hacks, trojan apps and intrusions test national cyber defenses. (8)
- Hyperscalers and Gulf AI projects hit as data centers targeted. (4)
- Oil, markets and trade disrupted as Gulf conflict snarls commerce. (16)
- War widens; post‑war plan skepticism and live strike timeline. (3)
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Camera hacks, trojan apps and intrusions test national cyber defenses.
Hyperscalers and Gulf AI projects hit as data centers targeted.
Oil, markets and trade disrupted as Gulf conflict snarls commerce.
War widens; post‑war plan skepticism and live strike timeline.
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Google says 90 zero-days were exploited in attacks last year
Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracked 90 zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited throughout 2025, almost half of them in enterprise software and appliances. [...]
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Evervault raises $25M to scale its ‘secure-by-default’ approach to payment data encryption
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Payment data encryption startup Evervault Inc. said today it’s aiming to become the internet’s “clearing house for sensitive data” after raising $25 million in a Series B round of funding. The round was led by Ribbit Capital and saw participation from Seq…
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Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
cnbc - Amazon said the Bahrain facility was damaged due to a nearby drone strike, and two data centers in the UAE were directly hit by drones.
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Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data
Simon Willison / simonwillison - Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user dataBecause users lose their passkeys all the time, and may not understand that their data has been irreversibly encrypted using them and can no longer be recovered.Tim Cappalli:To the wider i…
Back to Top / Saturday, February 28, 2026, 12:20 am / permalink 19914 / 2 stories in 6 days
ThreatAware Raises $25M to Scale Cybersecurity with AI
Ekemini / ventureburn - ThreatAware has raised a total of $25 million in funding from One Peak, an investment firm that specializes in growth equity investments in high-growth software businesses. The funding serves asThe post ThreatAware Raises $25M to Scale Cybersecurity with …
Back to Top / Thursday, February 26, 2026, 11:21 am / permalink 19808 / 3 stories in 8 days
Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation Grants Attackers Root-Level Control
AnuPriya / cyberpress - Cisco has disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (formerly vSmart) and Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly vManage), actively exploited by sophisticated threat actors since at least 2023 to bypass authentication and se…
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Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents
Jessica Lyons / theregister - UNC2814 historically targets governments and telcos A China-linked crew found a unique formula for attacking telcos and government orgs across the Americas, Asia, and Africa in its latest round of intrusions. Google's threat intelligence, along with unnam…
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VAST Data Unveils Unified AI Operating System in NVIDIA, CrowdStrike Partnerships
Jon Swartz / techstrong - VAST Data has launched a fully CUDA-accelerated artificial intelligence (AI) data stack developed in collaboration with NVIDIA Corp., one of several deals announced Wednesday. The move transforms the VAST AI Operating System into a unified platform capabl…
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Secfix raises $12M to cut compliance work 90% for European SMBs
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Munich-based Secfix has closed an oversubscribed $12 million Series A led by Alstin Capital, with participation from Bayern…
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Wisconsin Reveals Conduent Breach Affected 25 Million Americans
PYMNTS / pymnts - A data breach at Conduent Business Services, an operator of back-end systems for state governments, has affected more than 25 million people across the country, according to data breach information posted this month by the Wisconsin Department of Agricult…
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 2:21 pm / permalink 19679 / 3 stories in 10 days
Google Bans AI Subscribers Over OpenClaw, Skips Refunds
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google has permanently banned paid AI Pro and Ultra subscribers for routing Gemini through OpenClaw via Antigravity OAuth, offering no appeals and no refunds.The post Google Bans AI Subscribers Over OpenClaw, Skips Refunds appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot
msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools [non-paywalled source], leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant's push to roll out these coding assi…
- Amazon response and blame - Company says 'user error', misconfigured access controls (3)
- Internal skepticism and rollout concerns - Engineers worry about autonomous AI assistants' risks (5)
- Kiro delete-and-recreate incident - Bot deleted and recreated environment, causing 13-hour outage (6)
Amazon response and blame - Company says 'user error', misconfigured access controls
Internal skepticism and rollout concerns - Engineers worry about autonomous AI assistants' risks
Kiro delete-and-recreate incident - Bot deleted and recreated environment, causing 13-hour outage
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West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud child porn hosting
appleinsider - West Virginia's attorney general believes iCloud is the greatest platform ever made to distribute child porn, and is the first government to sue Apple after a previous class action failed.Apple is under fire over its handling of CSAM on iCloud serversThe …
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Palo Alto Networks acquires file security startup Koi for reported $400M
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Palo Alto Networks Inc. is acquiring Koi Security Ltd., a startup that helps enterprises prevent their employees from downloading risky files. The companies announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms. According to Calcalist, the trans…
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enclaive closes €4.1M round focused on multi-cloud confidential computing
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - enclaive, a German cybersecurity company specialising inconfidential computing, has raised €4.1 million in seed funding, with the roundco-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and s...
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Exploring Clawdbot, the AI agent taking the internet by storm — AI agent can automate tasks for you, but there are significant risks involved
tomshardware - Clawdbot is a new pseudo-locally-hosted gateway for agentic AI that offers a sneak peek at both good and bad futures for the technology.
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Multiple vulnerabilities found in Anthropic’s Git MCP server
Erik van Klinken / techzine - Anthropic created the Model Context Protocol. Security was not necessarily a key focus in order to accelerate adoption. However, it now appears that Anthropic’s own Git MCP server has been vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities. This is despite the fact t…
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Security Flaw Resurfaces in Anthropic’s New Claude Cowork Tool Days After Launch
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anthropic has launched Cowork with a known data exfiltration vulnerability that researchers reported in October 2025 but remained unpatched for the January 13 release.The post Security Flaw Resurfaces in Anthropic’s New Claude Cowork Tool Days After Launc…
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RondoDox botnet exploits HPE OneView vulnerability on a massive scale
Berry Zwets / techzine - Check Point Research has identified a coordinated attack campaign targeting CVE-2025-37164, a critical vulnerability in HPE OneView. The RondoDox botnet is escalating from early reconnaissance to large-scale, automated attacks. Check Point has already blo…
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