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Here are the links we discuss this week:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/amazon-ai-assisted-hacker-breached-600-fortigate-firewalls-in-5-weeks/

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/open_source_registries_fund_security/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/infostealer-malware-found-stealing-openclaw-secrets-for-first-time/

https://www.securityweek.com/api-threats-grow-in-scale-as-ai-expands-the-blast-radius/

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/rmm_rat_trustconnect/

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Links to this week’s stories:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/02/notepad_hijacking_lotus_blossom/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-job-recruiters-hide-malware-in-developer-coding-challenges/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/amos-infostealer-targets-macos-through-a-popular-ai-app/

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/10/ai_agents_messaging_apps_data_leak/

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/payroll_pirates_business_social_engineering/

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Links to the stories we cover in this episode:

• https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/29/faster_patching_please_cry_infoseccers/
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/mandiant-finds-shinyhunters-using.html?m=1
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/marquis-blames-ransomware-breach-on-sonicwall-cloud-backup-hack/
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/researchers-find-175000-publicly.html?m=1
• https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/openclaw-ai-runs-wild-business-environments