February 20, 2026
PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a ‘few’ unauthorized transactions
About 100 customers affected PayPal has notified about 100 customers that their personal information was exposed online during a code change gone awry, and in a few of these cases, people saw unauthorized transactions on their accounts.…
AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos
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 knowledge. …
ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data
What happens in Vegas… Las Vegas hotel and casino giant Wynn Resorts appears to be the latest victim of data-grabbing and extortion gang ShinyHunters.…
Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs
Polish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentence Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko will spend the next five years behind bars in the US for his involvement in helping North Korean IT workers secure fraudulent employment.…
Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn’t plug-and-play
Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort Building a startup entirely on European infrastructure sounds like a nice sovereignty flex right up until you actually try it and realize the real price gets paid…
CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug
Hardcoded credential flaw in RecoverPoint already abused in espionage campaign Uncle Sam's cyber defenders have given federal agencies just three days to patch a maximum-severity Dell bug that's been under active exploitation since at least mid-2024.…
Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets
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 security technology secrets and then trying to cover their tracks when…
Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine
Appeals judge overrules lower tribunal in latest battle of ICO against a breached retail giant The UK's data protection watchdog has scored a small win in a lengthy legal battle against a British retail group that lost millions of data records during a 2017 breach.…