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Apple
Coruna: Spy-grade iOS exploit kit powering financial crime

A powerful iOS exploit kit has circulated among multiple threat actors over the past year, moving from a commercial surveillance operation to state-linked espionage campaigns …

Android 17
Android 17 second beta expands privacy controls for contacts, SMS and local networks

Google’s second beta of Android 17 continues updates to platform behavior and introduces new APIs focused on protecting sensitive data. Protecting contact and local network …

US Department of Justice
Ex-Google engineers charged with orchestrating high-tech secrets extraction

A federal grand jury has indicted three Silicon Valley engineers on charges in a scheme to steal trade secrets from Google and other leading technology companies. The …

Google
Google cleans house, bans 80,000 developer accounts from the Play Store

Google prevented more than 1.75 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play and banned over 80,000 developer accounts that attempted to publish harmful …

Luke McNamara
The defense industrial base is a prime target for cyber disruption

Cyber threats against the defense industrial base (DIB) are intensifying, with adversaries shifting from traditional espionage toward operations designed to disrupt production …

Google Chrome
Google patches Chrome vulnerability with in-the-wild exploit (CVE-2026-2441)

Google released a security update for Chrome to address a high-severity zero‑day vulnerability (CVE-2026-2441) on Friday. “Google is aware that an exploit for …

Android 17
Android 17 beta brings privacy, security, and performance changes

Google has released the first beta of Android 17, giving developers an early view of changes to core app behavior, platform tooling, performance, media handling, and …

Apple
Apple fixes zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks (CVE-2026-20700)

Apple has released fixes for a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-20700) exploited in targeted attacks last year. CVE-2026-20700 is a memory corruption issue in dyld, the …

Google search
Google Search introduces new ways to remove sensitive personal information and explicit images

Google expanded its “Results about you” tool to give users more control over sensitive personal information and added a way to request removal of non-consensual explicit …

Patch Tuesday
February 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Lots of OOB love this month

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and Microsoft has been giving us a lot of love with a non-stop supply of patches starting with January 2026 Patch Tuesday. The …

Google
Major vulnerabilities found in Google Looker, putting self-hosted deployments at risk

Researchers at Tenable have disclosed two vulnerabilities, collectively referred to as “LookOut,” affecting Google Looker. Because the business intelligence platform is …

Google
Ex-Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets

A federal jury in California convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of …

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