Feb 19, 2026

AI says that this is the show where we turn coffee into threat intelligence and cigar smoke into packet captures. This week:

• a firmware backdoor living its best life inside Android tablets
• a fresh BeyondTrust RCE that already has scanners circling like seagulls over a french fry.
• Lenovo Vantage reminds us that “preinstalled convenience” is just another way to spell “attack surface.”
• Texas is taking a swing at TP-Link
• supercomputers with a 20-year-old Munge bug that still has teeth.
• Your AI coding assistant might be quietly squirreling away secrets
• macOS gets a visit from an infostealer delivered as helpful add-ons
• Chrome extensions allegedly spy on millions
• open source maintainers drowning in AI-generated nonsense
• Windows flirting with smartphone-style permission prompts.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-914