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In 2025, navigating the digital seas still felt like a matter of direction. Organizations charted routes, watched the horizon, and adjusted course to reach safe harbors of resilience, trust, and compliance. In 2026, the seas are no longer calm between storms. Cybersecurity now unfolds in a state of continuous atmospheric instability: AI-driven threats that adapt in real time, expanding from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/cybersecurity-tech-predictions-for-2026.html

The title of the post is” What AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works ,” and I agree: In the latest OpenSSL security release> on January 27, 2026, twelve new zero-day vulnerabilities (meaning unknown to the maintainers at time of disclosure) were announced. Our AI system is responsible for the original discovery of all twelve, each found and responsibly disclosed to the OpenSSL team during the fall and winter of 2025. Of those, 10 were assigned CVE-2025 identifiers and 2 received CVE-2026 identifiers. Adding the 10 to the three we already found in the Fall 2025 release , AISLE is credited for surfacing 13 of 14 OpenSSL CVEs assigned in 2025, and 15 total across both releases. This is a historically unusual concentration for any single research team, let alone an AI-driven one. These weren’t trivial findings either. They included CVE-2025-15467 , a stack buffer overflow in CMS message parsing that’s potentially remotely exploitable without valid key material, and exploits ...

In the first half of February 2026 I collected 96 events (6.4 events/day) with a threat landscape dominated by malware with 33%, (it was 38% in the second half of last month, once again ahead of ransomware (up to 20% from 14%), and account takeovers, down to 8% from 14%. from HACKMAGEDDON https://www.hackmageddon.com/2026/02/18/1-15-february-2026-cyber-attacks-timeline/

Security, IT, and engineering teams today are under relentless pressure to accelerate outcomes, cut operational drag, and unlock the full potential of AI and automation. But simply investing in tools isn’t enough. 88% of AI proofs-of-concept never make it to production, even though 70% of workers cite freeing time for high-value work as the primary AI automation motivation. Real impact comes from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/3-ways-to-start-your-intelligent.html

Notepad++ has released a security fix to plug gaps that were exploited by an advanced threat actor from China to hijack the software update mechanism to selectively deliver malware to targets of interest. The version 8.9.2 update incorporates what maintainer Don Ho calls a "double lock" design that aims to make the update process "robust and effectively unexploitable." This includes verification from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/notepad-fixes-hijacked-update-mechanism.html

CyberheistNews Vol 16 #07  |   February 17th, 2026 Uncovering the Sophisticated Phishing Campaign Bypassing M365 MFA KnowBe4 Threat Labs has detected a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting North American businesses and professionals. This attack compromises Microsoft 365 accounts (Outlook, Teams, OneDrive) by abusing the OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant flow, bypassing strong passwords and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). The victim is directed to a legitimate Microsoft domain to enter an attack supplied device code. This action authenticates the victim and issues a valid OAuth access token to the attacker's application. The real-time theft of these tokens grants the attacker persistent access to the victim's Microsoft 365 accounts and corporate data. Key Takeaways: Campaign at a Glance Novel Attack Mechanism: This campaign bypasses traditional security by not stealing credentials. Instead, it tricks the user into authenticating on the legitimate Microsoft...