The Hacker NewsFeb 11, 2026Identity Security / Threat Exposure Intentionally vulnerable training applications are widely used for security education, internal testing, and product demonstrations. Tools such as OWASP Juice Shop, DVWA, Hackazon, and bWAPP are designed to be insecure by default, making them useful for learning how common attack techniques work in controlled environments. The issue is not the applications themselves, but how they are often deployed and maintained in real-world cloud environments. Pentera Labs examined how training and demo applications are being used across cloud infrastructures and identified a recurring pattern: applications intended for isolated lab use were frequently…
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AI is changing how people discover brands—but most companies have no idea how visible they actually are in AI platforms. And if you’re a small team, you definitely don’t have the time (or budget) to manually check every chatbot or pay a hefty amount for monitoring software.This guide shows you how to track your AI visibility without needing a big team, complex tools, or enterprise resources.But before that, let’s understand why ignoring AI visibility is a riskier bet.Why Small Teams Can’t Afford to Ignore AI VisibilityThere are a couple of reasons why you shouldn’t ignore AI visibility: Your competitors are…
Even when games are technically supported by Nvidia’s new DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution model, developers often don’t update the DLSS DLL files that ship with the game itself for various compatibility reasons. A few weeks ago, I had a chance to test whether the technology works well in titles that don’t natively support it, and the results were quite compelling. With the right tools and a few tweaks, it is possible to force the new model to run on virtually any game. Sometimes, the improvements are visually transformative. Occasionally, there are a few quirks, but more often than not, you’re…
Microsoft has plugged 50+ security holes on February 2026 Patch Tuesday, including six zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by attackers in the wild. The “security feature bypass” zero-days Among the zero-days fixed are three vulnerabilities that allow attackers to bypass a security feature. CVE-2026-21513 affects the MSHTML/Trident browser engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer, and CVE-2026-21514 affects Microsoft Word. The former can be exploited by attackers by convincing a user to open a malicious HTML or shortcut (.lnk) file that has been crafted to manipulate browser and Windows Shell handling. The latter can be triggered by a malicious Office…
Every time I set up a new phone, I tell myself I’ll finally use widgets properly. I carefully choose the most promising ones, resize and arrange them, and admire how “productive” my home screen looks. In reality, most widgets don’t survive long on my phone. Some take up too much space, others show too little information, and many feel like awkward shortcuts rather than thoughtfully designed tools. If widgets were as practical as they sound, my home screen would be full of them. But after months of tinkering, I’m starting to think the problem isn’t user error. Credit: Lucas Gouveia /…
North Korean hackers are running tailored campaigns using AI-generated video and the ClickFix technique to deliver malware for macOS and Windows to targets in the cryptocurrency sector. The threat actor’s goal is financial, as suggested by the role of the tools used in an attack on a fintech company investigated by Google’s Mandiant researchers. During the response engagement, the researchers found seven distinct macOS malware families and attributed the attack to UNC1069, a threat group they’ve been tracking since 2018. Infection chain The attack had a strong social engineering component as the victim was contacted over the Telegram messaging service from a compromised…
Home > Piracy > Despite being sued by Spotify and several record labels, Anna’s Archive has silently begun releasing the actual music files from its massive Spotify scrape. The shadow library’s backend torrent index now lists dozens of new torrents containing approximately 2.8 million tracks totaling roughly 6 terabytes of audio data. This marks a significant escalation in the already historic standoff with the music industry. Anna’s Archive is generally known as a meta-search engine for shadow libraries, helping users find pirated books and other related resources. However, last December, the site announced that it had also backed up Spotify,…
A few months ago, I took a step I should’ve taken several years ago and switched the rest of my immediate family to Pixel phones. My husband was already sporting and loving his Pixel 7 Pro, and my mother-in-law was using my old Pixel 6a, but my mom, dad, and aunt were all still carrying older OnePlus or Samsung phones. Since they’re not interested in state-of-the-art tech, I dug into the archive and found a Pixel 7a, 6 Pro, and 7 Pro to upgrade them to.Going in, I knew this would be a big departure for them. It would’ve been…
Fortinet on Tuesday published eight advisories describing security defects addressed in FortiAuthenticator, FortiClient for Windows, FortiGate, FortiOS, and FortiSandbox, including two high-severity issues. The most severe of these is CVE-2025-52436, an XSS bug in FortiSandbox that could be exploited via crafted requests to execute commands without authentication. Next in line is CVE-2026-22153, an authentication bypass in FortiOS that can be exploited under certain configurations to bypass LDAP authentication of Agentless VPN or FSSO policy. The company also rolled out fixes for medium-severity flaws in FortiOS, FortiAuthenticator, FortiGate, and FortiClient for Windows that could be exploited to obtain sensitive information, smuggle…
If you’ve been managing PPC accounts for any length of time, you don’t need a research report to tell you something has changed. You see it in the day-to-day work: GCLIDs missing from URLs. Conversions arriving later than expected. Reports that take longer to explain while still feeling less definitive than they used to. When that happens, the reflex is to assume something broke – a tracking update, a platform change, or a misconfiguration buried somewhere in the stack. But the reality is usually simpler. Many measurement setups still assume identifiers will reliably persist from click to conversion, and that…