Cyber Scoop

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• Boniface Mwangi
• Cellebrite
• Citizen Lab
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
• Kenya
• Privacy

Citizen Lab links Cellebrite to the hacking of a Kenyan presidential candidate’s phone

Cyber Scoop February 17, 2026

Citizen Lab links Cellebrite to the hacking of a...

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• Agentic AI
• AI
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• mergers and acquisitions
• model context protocol (MCP)
• Money
• prompt injection
• Proofpoint

Proofpoint acquires Acuvity to tackle the security risks of agentic AI

Cyber Scoop February 12, 2026

Proofpoint acquires Acuvity to tackle the security risks of...

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2 min read

• Apple
• attack
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Threats
• vulnerability disclosure
• vulnerability reporting
• Zero-day
• zero-days

Apple discloses first actively exploited zero-day of 2026

Cyber Scoop February 12, 2026

Apple discloses first actively exploited zero-day of 2026 |...

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• AI
• AI hacking
• apt
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• China
• Cybersecurity
• Google Gemini
• Iran
• North Korea
• Research
• Russia
• Technology

Google finds state-sponsored hackers use AI at ‘all stages’ of attack cycle 

Cyber Scoop February 12, 2026

Google finds state-sponsored hackers use AI at ‘all stages’...

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• chemical plants
• CIRCIA
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Government
• Policy
• ransomware
• regulation
• small business

CISA to host industry feedback sessions on cyber incident reporting regulation

Cyber Scoop February 12, 2026

CISA to host industry feedback sessions on cyber incident...

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• 0APT
• cybercrime
• extortion
• GuidePoint Security
• Halcyon
• ransomware
• Research

0APT ransomware group rises swiftly with bluster, along with genuine threat of attack

Cyber Scoop February 11, 2026

0APT ransomware group rises swiftly with bluster, along with...

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• CIRCIA
• Congress
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Financial
• Government
• government shutdown
• Henry Cuellar
• House Appropriations Committee
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
• Madhu Gottumukkala
• Mark Amodei
• regulation
• Trump administration

Acting CISA chief says DHS funding lapse would limit, halt some agency work

Cyber Scoop February 11, 2026

Acting CISA chief says DHS funding lapse would limit,...

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• AI
• AI chatbots
• Anthropic
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• Cybersecurity
• data privacy
• Google
• Healthcare
• hipaa
• OpenAI
• Privacy

Your AI doctor doesn’t have to follow the same privacy rules as your real one

Cyber Scoop February 11, 2026

Why your AI doctor doesn’t follow HIPAA: The hidden...

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• Congress
• Cybersecurity
• election security
• Government
• MEGA Act
• SAVE Act
• voter data
• voter registration

GOP Congress moves to shape election law in Trump’s image

Cyber Scoop February 11, 2026

GOP Congress moves to shape election law in Trump’s...

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• Action1
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Microsoft
• Patch Tuesday
• security patch
• Tenable
• Threats
• Trend Micro
• vulnerabilities
• vulnerability
• vulnerability disclosure
• Zero Day Initiative

Microsoft Patch Tuesday matches last year’s zero-day high with six actively exploited vulnerabilities

Cyber Scoop February 10, 2026

Microsoft Patch Tuesday matches last year’s zero-day high with...

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