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⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Skill Malware, 31Tbps DDoS, Notepad++ Hack, LLM Backdoors and More. Cyber threats are no longer coming from just malware or exploits. They’re showing up inside the tools, platforms, and ecosystems organizations use every day. As companies connect AI, cloud apps, developer tools, and communication systems, attackers are following those same paths. A clear pattern this week: attackers are abusing trust. Trusted updates, trusted marketplaces, trusted apps, even trusted AI workflows. Instead of breaking security controls head-on, they’re slipping into places that already have access. This recap brings together those signals — showing how modern attacks are blending technology abuse, ecosystem manipulation, and large-scale targeting into a single, expanding threat surface. ⚡ Threat of the Week OpenClaw announces VirusTotal Partnership — OpenClaw has announced a partnership with Google's VirusTotal malware scanning platform to scan skills that are being uploaded to ClawHub as part of a defense-in-depth approach to improve the security of the agentic ecosystem. The development comes as the cybersecurity community has raised concerns that autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) tools' persistent memory, broad permissions, and user‑controlled configuration could amplify existing risks, leading to prompt injections, data exfiltration, and exposure to unvetted components. This has also been complemented by the discovery of malicious skills on ClawHub, a public skills registry to augment the capabilities of AI agents, once again demonstrating that marketplaces are a gold mine for criminals who populate the store with malware to prey on developers. To make matters worse, Trend Micro disclosed that it observed malicious actors on the Exploit.in forum actively discussing the deployment of OpenClaw skills to support activities such as botnet operations. Another report from Veracode revealed that the number of packages on npm and PyPI with the name "claw" has increased exponentially from nearly zero at the start of the year to over 1,000 as of early February 2026, providing new avenues for threat actors to smuggle malicious typosquats. "Unsupervised deployment, broad permissions, and high autonomy can turn theoretical risks into tangible threats, not just for individual users but also across entire organizations," Trend Micro said. "Open-source agentic tools like OpenClaw require a higher baseline of user security competence than managed platforms."  Bad Actors Are Using New AI Capabilities and Powerful AI Agents Traditional firewalls and VPNs aren’t helping—instead, they’re expanding your attack surface and enabling lateral threat movement. They’re also more easily exploited with AI-powered attacks. It’s time for Zero Trust + AI. 🔔 Top News ‎️‍🔥 Trending CVEs New vulnerabilities surface daily, and attackers move fast. Reviewing and patching early keeps your systems resilient. Here are this week’s most critical flaws to check first — CVE-2026-25049 (n8n), CVE-2026-0709 (Hikvision Wireless Access Point), CVE-2026-23795 (Apache Syncope), CVE-2026-1591, CVE-2026-1592 (Foxit PDF Editor Cloud), CVE-2025-67987 (Quiz and Survey Master plugin), CVE-2026-24512 (ingress-nginx), CVE-2026-1207, CVE-2026-1287, CVE-2026-1312 (Django), CVE-2026-1861, CVE-2026-1862 (Google Chrome), CVE-2026-20098 (Cisco Meeting Management), CVE-2026-20119 (Cisco TelePresence CE Software and RoomOS), CVE-2026-0630, CVE-2026-0631, CVE-2026-22221, CVE-2026-22222, CVE-2026-22223, CVE-2026-22224, CVE-2026-22225, CVE-2026-22226, 22227, CVE-2026-22229 (TP-Link Archer BE230), CVE-2026-22548 (F5 BIG-IP), CVE-2026-1642 (F5 NGINX OSS and NGINX Plus), and CVE-2025-6978 (Arista NG Firewall). 📰 Around the Cyber World 🎥 Cybersecurity Webinars 🔧 Cybersecurity Tools Disclaimer: These tools are provided for research and educational use only. They are not security-audited and may cause harm if misused. Review the code, test in controlled environments, and comply with all applicable laws and policies. Conclusion The takeaway this week is simple: exposure is growing faster than visibility. Many risks aren’t coming from unknown threats, but from known systems being used in unexpected ways. Security teams are being forced to watch not just networks and endpoints, but ecosystems, integrations, and automated workflows. What matters now is readiness across layers — software, supply chains, AI tooling, infrastructure, and user platforms. Attackers are operating across all of them at once, blending old techniques with new access paths. Staying secure is no longer about fixing one flaw at a time. It’s about understanding how every connected system can influence the next — and closing those gaps before they’re chained together.