Weekly Cyber Security News 19/02/2026

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break!

The comments are particularly interesting too!

• AI Found Twelve New Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL

Talking about long uncovered issuse:

• China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using “ghost NICs” to avoid detection

The work done was certainly the correct thing to do, but as the last line says, saying that is a red rag to the bull:

• Notepad++ declares hardened update process “effectively unexploitable”