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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CarGurus data breach affects 12.5 million accounts
Kirsten Korosec / techcrunch - Automotive marketplace CarGurus was the target of a data breach in which the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers were stolen.
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 7:21 pm / permalink 19701 / 3 stories in 10 days
U.S. sanctions Russian firm Operation Zero following crypto-funded trade secret theft
Sarah Wynn / theblock - The Treasury’s OFAC has sanctioned the Russian company Operation Zero following the guilty plea of a man who admitted to stealing software.
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1Password's $12 price bump tests user loyalty with 'AI-powered' features
Abbas Jaffar Ali / tbreak - 1Password bumps Family plan pricing 20% to $71.88 USD annually from March 2026. The increase adds AI features and enhanced security tools, but existing users keep current rates until renewal after the deadline.
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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…
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‘This should terrify you’: Meta Superintelligence safety director lost control of her AI agent—it deleted her emails
Jude Cramer / fastcompany - As built-in AI pops up in more aspects of everyday life, laymen are counting on the experts to keep technology safe to use. But one Meta employee’s misadventure with AI has social media users fearful for the future of AI alignment.Summer Yue is the direct…
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Solana DeFi Project Step Finance to Wind Down Weeks After $29M Hack
Callan Quinn / decrypt - The Solana projects made the "difficult decision" to cease operations after January's treasury breach and subsequent failed rescue efforts.
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Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls, AI Kill Switches
BeauHD / slashdot - Firefox 148 introduces granular AI controls and a global "AI kill switch" that allows users to disable or selectively manage the browser's AI features. Phoronix reports: Among the AI features that can be toggled individually are around translations, image…
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Bungie Confirms That Cheaters in Marathon Will be “Permabanned” When Caught, “No Second Chances”
David Carcasole / wccftech - Bungie's upcoming first-person PvEvP extraction shooter, Marathon, will be out on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S in a little more than a week from the time of this writing, and as you might expect, there has been a lot of communication and marketing from th…
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Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude to improve their own models
Jackson Chen / engadget - Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax have been conducting "industrial-scale campaig…
- Allegations arrive amid export-control debate and industry lobbying pressure (3)
- Anthropic details ‘distillation’ attacks: 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million queries (11)
- Online critics ridicule Anthropic, accuse hypocrisy and industry posturing (5)
- OTHER: Chinese firms' growth and unrelated community reactions (1)
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Anthropic released Claude Code Security as research preview
Erin / testingcatalog - What's new? Anthropic introduced Claude Code Security for security teams and maintainers to spot code gaps; it uses Claude Opus 4.6 with layered checks and patch proposals;
- Developer ecosystem — Claude expands into tools: compilers, IDEs, PowerPoint (7)
- Market reaction — Traders dump cybersecurity stocks after Anthropic demo (4)
- Pentagon friction — Defense confronts Anthropic over safeguards and military use (2)
- Security risks — Vulnerability scanning raises misuse and real-world exploit concerns (2)
Developer ecosystem — Claude expands into tools: compilers, IDEs, PowerPoint
Market reaction — Traders dump cybersecurity stocks after Anthropic demo
Pentagon friction — Defense confronts Anthropic over safeguards and military use
Security risks — Vulnerability scanning raises misuse and real-world exploit concerns
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AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos
Jessica Lyons / theregister - 4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowl…
- Developer-tool supply-chain sabotage prompts security alarms (5)
- Ecosystem fallout: bans, scams, 'Claws' debates, and creators (8)
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Developer-tool supply-chain sabotage prompts security alarms
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Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK
BeauHD / slashdot - Backlash intensified against Discord's age verification rollout after it briefly disclosed a UK age-verification test involving vendor Persona, contradicting earlier claims about minimal ID storage and transparency. Ars Technica explains: One of the major…
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Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the cou…
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PayPal Discloses Data Breach That Exposed User Info For 6 Months
msmash / slashdot - PayPal is notifying customers of a data breach after a software error in a loan application exposed their sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, for nearly 6 months last year. From a report: The incident affected the PayPal Wor…
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$20 million lost in 'jackpotting' ATM malware attacks in 2025, FBI reports — scheme forces machines to spit out cash, targets banks and ATM operators
tomshardware - The FBI released a public warning, saying that ATM "jackpotting" incidents have exponentially increased in 2025.
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Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025
Steve Dent / engadget - Google has announced that with the help of AI, it blocked 1.75 million apps that violated its policies in 2025, significantly down from 2.36 million in 2024. The lower numbers this year, it said, are because its "AI-powered, multi-layer protections" are d…
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Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets
Carly Page / theregister - Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas Two former Google engineers and a third alleged accomplice are facing federal charges after prosecutors accused them of swiping sensitive chip and securi…
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US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere
BeauHD / slashdot - The U.S. State Department is reportedly developing a site called freedom.gov that would let users in Europe and elsewhere access content restricted under local laws, "including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda," reports Reuters. Washington vie…
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LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find
msmash / slashdot - AI security firm Irregular has found that passwords generated by major large language models -- Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini -- appear complex but follow predictable patterns that make them crackable in hours, even on decades-old hardware. When researchers …
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