Weekly Digest

Every Monday: critical CVEs, top security news, relevant ransomware activity, and what we shipped at 8BitSecurity.

W8 2026 16 Feb 2026–22 Feb 2026

TOP NEWS
Predator spyware hooks iOS SpringBoard to hide mic, camera activity
TOP CVE
CVE-2026-1405 - RCE
RANSOMWARE
ABAR S.p.A.

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W7 2026 09 Feb 2026–15 Feb 2026

TOP NEWS
Claude LLM artifacts abused to push Mac infostealers in ClickFix attack
TOP CVE
CVE-2026-21510 - RCE
RANSOMWARE
Bitgo

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W6 2026 02 Feb 2026–08 Feb 2026

TOP NEWS
Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
TOP CVE
CVE-2026-21643 - RCE
RANSOMWARE
LABINF

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W5 2026 26 Jan 2026–01 Feb 2026

TOP NEWS
Microsoft to disable NTLM by default in future Windows releases
TOP CVE
CVE-2026-1281 - RCE
RANSOMWARE
RSTRT

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W4 2026 19 Jan 2026–24 Jan 2026

TOP NEWS
KONNI Adopts AI to Generate PowerShell Backdoors
TOP CVE
CVE-2024-37079 - RCE
RANSOMWARE
Frandent

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W3 2026 12 Jan 2026–18 Jan 2026

TOP NEWS
Microsoft: Some Windows PCs fail to shut down after January update
TOP CVE
CVE-2026-0227 - DoS
RANSOMWARE
Colacem

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W2 2026 05 Jan 2026–11 Jan 2026

TOP NEWS
MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors
TOP CVE
CVE-2026-0628 - RCE
RANSOMWARE
Softlab SpA

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W1 2026 28 Dec 2025–04 Jan 2026

TOP NEWS
President Trump Orders Divestment in $2.9 Million Chips Deal to Protect US Security Interests
TOP CVE
CVE-2025-14847 - Info Leak
RANSOMWARE
SEACSUB S.p.a.

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