Heartbeat 26.02

What’s New From Us

  1. Free Security Awareness Newsletter Service for Clients and PartnersSituational awareness is needed to establish good cyber hygiene and improve as threats emerge.  Heatbeat offers a periodic update of the priority security news to our partners and clients.  

Newsworthy Posts

  1. CompTIA Launches SecAI+
  2.  If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them -(The Impact to AI) 
  3. Colorado AI Act
  4. The DarkSword Kink in iOS (iPhone) Armor
  5. Langflow Code Injection Vulnerability
  6. PTC Windchill Weak w/No Fix
  7.  Beware of Black-Listed Foreign-Made Routers!
  8.  PyPI Vulnerable to Supply Chain Attack
  9. Race to Govern AI Begins
  10. Safeguard You Keys to Remote Wipe

Partner Perspective

  1. Coyote Brown / Cyber Buyer
    1. Top security news for the past 2 weeks:
      1. Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
      2. Meta and Law Enforcement Take Down 150,000 Scam Accounts and Arrest 21 Suspects
      3. Stryker attack wiped tens of thousands of devices, no malware needed
      4. Malicious AI extensions: LLM usage as an exfiltration surface
      5. Ransomware Gang Exposes Data of 672,000 Individuals in Massive Cyberattack
      6. LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files
      7. Hackers turn GitHub’s favourite OpenWebUI AI servers into crypto mining zombie army
      8. Hacker mass-mails HungerRush extortion emails to restaurant patrons
      9. Small Business Cyberattacks 2026: Why SMBs Are #1 Targets
      10. A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI’s Epstein Files
      11. What it takes to win that CSO role
      12. RSAC 2026 Conference Announcements Summary (Pre-Event)
      13. RSAC 2026 Conference Announcements Summary (Day 1)
      14. RSAC 2026 Conference Announcements Summary (Day 2)
      15. RSAC 2026 Conference Announcements Summary (Day 3)
      16. Autonomous AI adoption is on the rise, but it’s risky
      17. Fake OpenClaw Token Giveaway Targets GitHub Devs with Wallet-Draining Scam
      18. Experts warn of a ‘loud and aggressive’ extortion wave following Trivy hack
      19. SANS: Top 5 Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques to Watch
      20. Lightning-fast exploits make it essential to patch fast, ask questions later
      21. Stryker says malware was involved in recent cyberattack as production lines reopen
      22. Chrome 146 Update Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities
    2. New vendors added to Cyber Buyer’s portfolio – KOIdescopeFabrix.
    3. Featured vendors: CYCLoxsecurity
  2. The Privacy Professor – no updates issued
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