Secretary of Defense summons Antropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude

Axios reports that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning to discuss military use of Claude. The meeting comes as the Pentagon threatens to declare Anthropic a “supply chain risk” (a label typically given to foreign adversaries) after the AI company refused to allow the Pentagon […]
Double-Tap Skimmers, PromptSpy AI, 30Tbps DDoS, Docker Malware & More

Ravie LakshmananFeb 23, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking Security news rarely moves in a straight line. This week, it feels more like a series of sharp turns, some happening quietly in the background, others playing out in public view. The details are different, but the pressure points are familiar. Across devices, cloud services, research labs, and even […]
How exposing endpoints increases risk across your LLM infrastructure

hacker newsFebruary 23, 2026Artificial Intelligence/Zero Trust As more organizations run their own large-scale language models (LLMs), they are also introducing more internal services and application programming interfaces (APIs) to support those models. Modern security risks are increasingly introduced not from the models themselves, but from the infrastructure that serves, connects, and automates them. Each new […]
Lotus shoes: small footwear for Chinese women who were tied down as children

simple facts Name: Lotus shoes What is it: very small shoes Origin: China Manufacture date: between 1000 and 1950 More than 1,000 years ago, during the Chinese dynasty, many young girls bound their toes tightly with gauze to give the appearance of delicate feet. The earliest preserved examples of petite footwear known as “lotus shoes” […]
Malicious npm package collects cryptographic keys, CI secrets, and API tokens

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered what they claim is an active “Shai-Hulud-like” supply chain worm campaign that leverages a cluster of at least 19 malicious npm packages to enable credential harvesting and cryptocurrency key theft. The campaign has been codenamed SANDWORM_MODE by supply chain security company Socket. Similar to previous waves of Shai-Hulud attacks, the malicious […]
MuddyWater uses GhostFetch, CHAR, HTTP_VIP to target MENA organizations

Ravi LakshmananFebruary 23, 2026Threat Intelligence/Artificial Intelligence The Iranian hacker group known as MuddyWater (also known as Earth Vetala, Mango Sandstorm, and MUDDYCOAST) targeted multiple organizations and individuals primarily based in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as part of a new campaign codenamed Operation Olalampo. According to a report published by Group-IB, this […]
OpenClaw Security Crisis: Detecting AI Agent Risks

You’ve probably heard of OpenClaw. This open source AI agent quickly became one of the fastest growing repositories in GitHub’s history, gaining over 135,000 stars within a few weeks. However, this led to the first major AI agent security crisis of 2026. Reco helps you identify whether an AI agent is present in your environment. […]
Can the creator economy survive the flood of AI?

Online creators and their business models became our focus this week after super-popular YouTuber Mr.Beast announced he would be acquiring fintech startup Step. Then, Hollywood studios sent a flurry of cease-and-desist letters over the launch of ByteDance’s new video generation model SeaDance 2.0. These seemingly unconnected headlines suggest a media landscape in the midst of […]
Bill Gurley says the worst thing you can do for your career right now is play it safe.

For nearly 30 years, Bill Gurley has been one of Silicon Valley’s most influential voices, a general partner at Benchmark, an early investor in companies like Uber, Zillow, and Stitch Fix, and helped define what modern venture capital looks like. Now, having moved to Austin and taken a break from active investing, the Texas native […]
President Trump says Netflix will face ‘consequences’ if it does not fire director Susan Rice

President Donald Trump said in a social media post Saturday that Netflix will “pay the consequences” if it does not fire Susan Rice, who has served on the company’s board since 2018. Trump’s comments came after Rice, a former U.N. ambassador who served in diplomatic and advisory roles in the Obama and Biden administrations, appeared […]