This edition tracks the week’s highest-impact cybersecurity and AI-security developments, selected for relevance to security, technology, and communications leaders.
This issue highlights the weaponization of generative AI in large-scale breaches at Fortinet and Mexican government agencies, alongside a significant exposure of sensitive user data at PayPal due to a software error.
Sources
- [AI-augmented threat actor accesses FortiGate devices at scale](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/ai-augmented-threat-actor-accesses-fortigate-devices-at-scale)
- [PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months](https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/02/20/paypal-app-code-error-leaked-personal-info)
- [Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude to Steal Sensitive Mexican Data](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/hacker-used-anthropic-s-claude-to-steal-sensitive-mexican-data)
