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- Microsoft February 2026 Patch Tuesday Fixes 58 Flaws, Six Actively Exploited Zero-Days
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Category: Application Security
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Today’s Topics: DockerDash: Ask Gordon AI Flaw Exposed a Critical Trust Boundary in Docker Desktop Docker quietly closed a serious gap in its AI assistant, Ask Gordon, with the release of Docker Desktop version 4.50.0 in November 2025. The issue, dubbed “DockerDash” by researchers at Noma Labs, was not a typical memory corruption bug or…
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Microsoft’s February 2026 Patch Tuesday includes security updates for 58 vulnerabilities, with a heavy concentration of zero-days. Six vulnerabilities were actively exploited in the wild, three of which were also publicly disclosed prior to patching. Five vulnerabilities are classified as critical, including three elevation of privilege flaws and two information disclosure issues. Breakdown of Vulnerabilities…
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Today’s Topics: SolarWinds Web Help Desk Exploitation Leads to Full Domain Compromise Scenarios Security researchers have confirmed active exploitation of internet-exposed SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances as part of a multi-stage intrusion chain that progressed from unauthenticated access to lateral movement and, in at least one case, domain-level compromise. The activity was observed by…
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OpenClaw is an open-source, locally run autonomous AI assistant designed to act as a personal agent rather than a cloud-hosted service. Instead of routing prompts, context, and execution through a vendor-operated backend, OpenClaw runs directly on infrastructure chosen by the user, such as a laptop, homelab system, or virtual private server. Messaging integrations allow users…
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Today’s Topics: Notepad++ Supply Chain Attack Quietly Pushed Malicious Updates to Select Users in 2025 The maintainer of the open-source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that attackers were able to abuse the project’s update process to deliver malicious software to users for several months during 2025. The activity ran from roughly June through December and…
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Personal AI assistants are being deployed on a trust model that would be rejected in most security programs: opaque data lineage, unverifiable context, weak separation of duties, and no dependable remediation path once incorrect state becomes operational. The outcomes are already visible. Agents act confidently on partial or stale context, collapse inference into fact, and…
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Open-source large language models running outside commercial platforms have quietly become a stable layer of internet-facing infrastructure. At scale, they are now being indexed, scanned, and reused in patterns consistent with earlier waves of exposed services such as mail relays, databases, and CI/CD systems. Their security risk is not theoretical. These deployments offer programmable language…
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Today’s Topics: LastPass Warns Users of Active Phishing Campaign Mimicking Maintenance Alerts LastPass is warning customers about an active phishing campaign that impersonates the service and attempts to steal users’ master passwords by posing as routine maintenance notifications. The activity appears to have started around January 19, 2026, and relies on urgency and familiar branding…
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Security teams now operate in environments defined by cloud sprawl, short development cycles, and attacker activity that is increasingly designed to blend into normal operations. Static scanning and legacy rule sets were built for stable infrastructure and known signatures. They do not perform well against zero-day exploitation, credential abuse, or multi-stage intrusions that evolve inside…
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Recent research from Anthropic-affiliated investigators provides one of the clearest quantitative signals yet that autonomous AI agents have crossed an important threshold in offensive security capability. Using a purpose-built benchmark focused on smart contract exploitation, the study measures success not by abstract accuracy metrics, but by simulated financial loss. The results indicate that current frontier…
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