Breaking News – Cyber Threats – 2026-02-16 02:00 PST

Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)

Generated: 2026-02-16 02:00 PST

• Google patches first Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year
  BleepingComputer • 2026-02-16 00:19 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
  Google has released emergency updates to fix a high-severity Chrome vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks, marking the first such security flaw patched since the start of the year. […]
  https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-patches-first-chrome-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks-this-year/
• 2026 64-Bits Malware Trend, (Mon, Feb 16th)
  SANS ISC Diary (full) • 2026-02-15 23:46 • isc.sans.edu

  In 2022 (time flies!), I wrote a diary about the 32-bits VS. 64-bits malware landscape[1]. It demonstrated that, despite the growing number of 64-bits computers, the “old-architecture” remained the standard. In the SANS malware reversing training (FOR610[2]), we quickly cover the main differences between the two architectures. One of the conclusions is that …
  https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32718

• New Chrome Zero-Day (CVE-2026-2441) Under Active Attack — Patch Released
  The Hacker News • 2026-02-15 22:38 • thehackernews.com
  Google on Friday released security updates for its Chrome browser to address a security flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild.
  The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2441 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a use-after-free bug in CSS. Security researcher Shaheen Fazim has been credited with discovering and reporting the shortcoming on February 11, 2026.
  “Use after
  https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/new-chrome-zero-day-cve-2026-2441-under.html
• Canada Goose investigating as hackers leak 600K customer records
  BleepingComputer • 2026-02-15 20:45 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
  ShinyHunters, a well-known data extortion group, claims to have stolen more than 600,000 Canada Goose customer records containing personal and payment-related data. Canada Goose told BleepingComputer the dataset appears to relate to past customer transactions and that it has not found evidence of a breach of its own systems. […]
  https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/canada-goose-investigating-as-hackers-leak-600k-customer-records/

Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.