Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-02-20 12:00 PST
- Japanese tech giant Advantest hit by ransomware attack
BleepingComputer • 2026-02-20 10:30 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Advantest Corporation disclosed that its corporate network has been targeted in a ransomware attack that may have affected customer or employee data. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/japanese-tech-giant-advantest-hit-by-ransomware-attack/ - CISA: BeyondTrust RCE flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks
BleepingComputer • 2026-02-20 09:02 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Hackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2026-1731 vulnerability in the BeyondTrust Remote Support product, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-beyondtrust-rce-flaw-now-exploited-in-ransomware-attacks/ - Data breach at French bank registry impacts 1.2 million accounts
BleepingComputer • 2026-02-20 08:20 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
The French Ministry of Finance has published an announcement informing of a cybersecurity incident that has impacted 1.2 million accounts. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-breach-at-french-bank-registry-impacts-12-million-accounts/ - BeyondTrust Flaw Used for Web Shells, Backdoors, and Data Exfiltration
The Hacker News • 2026-02-20 07:45 • thehackernews.com
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products to conduct a wide range of malicious actions, including deploying VShell and
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score: 9.9), allows attackers to execute operating system commands in the context of the
https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/beyondtrust-flaw-used-for-web-shells.html - Why the shift left dream has become a nightmare for security and developers
BleepingComputer • 2026-02-20 06:45 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
The “shift left” approach has increased pressure on developers, as speed demands override security checks in modern CI pipelines. Qualys explains how analyzing 34,000 public container images revealed 7.3% were malicious and why security must be enforced at the infrastructure layer by default. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/why-the-shift-left-dream-has-become-a-nightmare-for-security-and-developers/ - Cline CLI 2.3.0 Supply Chain Attack Installed OpenClaw on Developer Systems
The Hacker News • 2026-02-20 06:20 • thehackernews.com
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 publish an update to Cline CLI
https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/cline-cli-230-supply-chain-attack.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
