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In February 2026, Dutch telco Odido was the victim of a data breach and subsequent extortion attempt. Shortly after, a total of 6M unique email addresses were published across four separate data releases over consecutive days. The exposed data includes names, physical addresses, phone numbers, bank account numbers, dates of birth, customer service notes and passport, driver’s licence and...

In February 2026, Dutch telco Odido was the victim of a data breach and subsequent extortion attempt. Shortly after, 1M records containing 317k unique email addresses were published, followed by further releases exposing an additional 371k and then 833k unique email addresses, with the latter also including passport, driver’s licence and European national ID numbers. The exposed data includes...

In February 2026, Dutch telco Odido was the victim of a data breach and subsequent extortion attempt. Following the incident, 1M records containing 317k unique email addresses were published, with the attackers threatening to leak additional data in the following days. That threat was subsequently carried out, with a further 1M records containing an additional 371k unique email addresses...

In November 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the first major cloud service provider to announce the ISO/IEC 42001 accredited certification for AI services, covering: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q Business, Amazon Textract, and Amazon Transcribe. In November 2025, AWS successfully completed its first surveillance audit for ISO 42001:2023, Artificial Intelligence Management System with no findings. This demonstrates...

AI agents have traditionally faced three core limitations: they can’t retain learned information or operate autonomously beyond short periods, and they require constant supervision. AWS addresses these limitations with frontier agents—a new category of AI that performs complex reasoning, multi-step planning, and autonomous execution for hours or days. Multi-agent collaboration has emerged as a powerful approach that...

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  "'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety." - Hotspur, Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1: Act 2 Scene 3 I get it. Hotspur is the quintessential hothead, and we all understand his place in the story. He’s famous for his fiery temperament...

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AI Security Insights – February 2026 - Read more

OverviewFor years, organizations have prioritized strengthening technical defenses, including hardening networks, accelerating patch management, and expanding endpoint detection and response capabilities. Defensive systems have become more adaptive, identity has moved to the center of security architectures, and zero-trust has emerged as a foundational design principle. Despite these advances, successful intrusions continue to occur in environments that appear technically mature. While...

A new diplomatic offensive against foreign privacy laws collides with fresh research showing that weakening data sovereignty protections is the last thing organizations need right now. The post The Global Fight Over Who Controls Your Data Just Escalated — Here’s What the Numbers Say appeared first on TechRepublic. - Read more