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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…
Chain IQ said it and 19 other companies had been the target of a cyber-attack resulting in a data leak that was published online on the darknet. CNA reports: Swiss bank UBS on Wednesday said it had suffered a data leak due to a cyber attack against one of its providers, but that no client…
Google on Wednesday said it discovered an unknown threat actor using an experimental Visual Basic Script (VB Script) malware dubbed PROMPTFLUX that interacts with its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) model API to write its own source code for improved obfuscation and evasion. “PROMPTFLUX is written in VBScript and interacts with Gemini’s API to request specific…
Brian Hamrick reports: West Chester Township is dealing with the fallout of a second cyber-attack this month. On Tuesday morning, cyber attackers the township calls a “malicious group” struck, targeting the email server. ”At approximately 6:45 a.m., we were notified of a potential cyber-attack and data breach,” said West Chester Township public information officer Brianna……
RTHK reports: The government office responsible for providing insolvency services has issued an apology after magnetic tapes containing information of about 76,000 people went missing. However, it stressed chances of a data leak is “extremely low”. The Official Receiver’s Office revealed on Monday that seven magnetic backup tapes were lost while being delivered from Immigration…
Lee Minji reports: SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a record 135 billion-won (US$91 million) fine handed down by the state data protection regulator over a massive data leak last year that affected its entire 23 million user base, industry sources said Monday. SK Telecom filed……