By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models have accumulated so much human knowledge that they’re far from simple answer-generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such as …
AI is accelerating the telecommunications industry’s transformation, becoming the backbone of autonomous networks and AI-native wireless infrastructure. At the same time, the technology is unlocking …
Modern enterprises face significant challenges connecting business intelligence platforms to cloud data warehouses while maintaining automation. Password-based authentication introduces security …
The GeForce NOW anniversary celebration keeps on rolling, and this week is all about the games that make it possible. With more than 4,500 titles supported in the cloud — plus 12 new games this week — …
Introduction
For at least the past year or so, I’ve been receiving Japanese-language phishing emails to my blog email addresses at @malware-traffic-analysis.net. I’m not Japanese, but I …
Before launching their Comet browser, Perplexity hired us to test the security of their AI-powered browsing features. Using adversarial testing guided by our TRAIL threat model, we demonstrated how …
Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abuse activists and security firms. But a …
Ring Cancels Its Partnership with Flock It’s a demonstration of how toxic the surveillance-tech company Flock has become when Amazon’s Ring cancels the partnership between the two companies.
As …
Malicious AI Interesting :
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation …
Amazon Quick supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations for action execution, data access, and AI agent integration. You can expose your application’s capabilities as MCP tools by hosting your …
As artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) workflows grow in scale and complexity, it becomes harder for practitioners to organize and deploy their models. AI projects often struggle to …
In 2025, Amazon SageMaker AI made several improvements designed to help you train, tune, and host generative AI workloads. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed Flexible Training Plans and price …
Insights from Microsoft’s Media Integrity and Authentication: Status, Directions, and Futures report
It has become increasingly difficult to distinguish fact from fiction when viewing online images …
In 2025, Amazon SageMaker AI saw dramatic improvements to core infrastructure offerings along four dimensions: capacity, price performance, observability, and usability. In this series of posts, we …
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is the first Android malware that abuses Gemini, Google’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, as part of its execution flow …
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cartoon I like this one .
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
Feb 20, 2026
Cybercrime / Law Enforcement
A 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. for his role in facilitating North …
Two former Google engineers and one of their husbands have been indicted in the U.S. for allegedly committing trade secret theft from the search giant and other tech firms and transferring the …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
Feb 20, 2026
Financial Crime / Banking Security
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of an increase in ATM jackpotting incidents across the country, leading …
Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we …
Introducing our National Partnerships for AI and collaboration in India
We believe AI will be the most transformative technology in human history and that it should be deployed in ways that benefit …
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The Hacker News **
Feb 20, 2026
Cyber Insurance / Password Security
With one in three cyber-attacks now involving compromised employee accounts, insurers and regulators are placing far greater …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
Feb 20, 2026
Malware / Threat Intelligence
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ClickFix campaign that abuses compromised legitimate sites to deliver a …
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 …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
Feb 20, 2026
Vulnerability / Cyber Attack
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and …