Weekly Tech & Cyber Wrap-Up

February 16, 2026 • Week 7

📌 Weekly Tech & Cyber Wrap-Up

🔒 Top 10 Closed-Source News

  1. Outlook add-in hijacked into phishing kit exploiting Microsoft account credentials Phishing via legitimate add-in. (The Hacker News)
  2. OpenAI introduces "Lockdown Mode" and Elevated Risk labels To mitigate advanced prompt injection and security threats. (Help Net Security)
  3. Microsoft discovers AI Recommendation Poisoning attacks Legitimate businesses gaming chatbots via "Summarize with AI" prompts. (The Hacker News)
  4. Infosys partners with Anthropic to build enterprise-grade AI agents Major partnership for enterprise AI deployment. (TechCrunch)
  5. Cohere launches family of open multilingual models Expanding language support for global AI applications. (TechCrunch)
  6. Google Chrome zero-day (CVE-2026-2441) under active attack Critical use-after-free vulnerability in CSS. (The Hacker News)
  7. Apple tests end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging in iOS 26.4 Beta Secure communications between Apple devices. (The Hacker News)
  8. Adani pledges $100B to build AI data centers India's push for bigger role in global AI infrastructure. (TechCrunch)
  9. Study uncovers 25 password recovery attacks in cloud password managers Vulnerabilities in Bitwarden, Dashlane, and LastPass. (The Hacker News)
  10. Ricursive Intelligence raises $335M at $4B valuation in 4 months Rapid AI startup funding milestone. (TechCrunch)

🧰 Top 10 Tools: MCP to Know & Use

  1. MCP Toolbox for Databases Open-source MCP server for SQL integration. (CRN)
  2. Five MCP servers to rule the cloud Comprehensive guide to AWS, Azure, and GCP MCP implementations. (InfoWorld)
  3. MCPSafetyScanner Audit tool for MCP server vulnerabilities. (arXiv)
  4. MCP Guardian Security layer for safeguarding MCP-based AI systems. (arXiv)
  5. fastmcp The fast, Pythonic way to build MCP servers and clients. (GitHub)
  6. MCP for Beginners Microsoft's curriculum with real-world examples across .NET, Java, TypeScript, Rust, and Python. (GitHub)
  7. Claude Flow Leading agent orchestration platform for Claude with MCP protocol support. (GitHub)
  8. Firecrawl MCP Server Powerful web scraping and search for Claude and LLM clients. (GitHub)
  9. MCP Context Forge IBM's MCP Gateway & Registry with REST API conversion. (GitHub)
  10. Unity MCP Bridge allowing AI assistants to interact with Unity Editor via MCP. (GitHub)

🧠 Top 10 Open Source News

  1. EU Sovereign Tech Fund proposal To sustain open-source digital infrastructure. (Wikipedia)
  2. Heretic: Fully automatic censorship removal for language models Open-source tool gaining 6,808 stars, addressing AI model limitations. (GitHub Trending)
  3. Seerr: Open-source media request manager For Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby with 9,196 stars. (GitHub Trending)
  4. Superpowers: Agentic skills framework Software development methodology that works, 53,244 stars. (GitHub Trending)
  5. Alibaba's zvec: Lightning-fast in-process vector database Open-source project with 4,273 stars. (GitHub Trending)
  6. OpenClaw: Personal AI assistant for any OS Open-source project with 203,883 stars, the lobster way. (GitHub Trending)
  7. SmartLoader campaign distributes trojanized Oura MCP Server Security threat targeting AI tool users. (The Hacker News)
  8. Infostealer targets OpenClaw configuration files and tokens Evolution from browser credentials to AI agent identities. (The Hacker News)
  9. MCP Python SDK reaches 21.7k stars Official Python implementation for Model Context Protocol. (GitHub)
  10. MCP TypeScript SDK reaches 11.6k stars Official TypeScript implementation growing rapidly. (GitHub)

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