Security Affairs newsletter Round 562 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs publishes its Round 562 INTERNATIONAL EDITION of the weekly newsletter by Pierluigi Paganini, dated 8 February 2026. The digest highlights several stories from Security Affairs, including Italian university La Sapienza still offline to mitigate recent cyber attack and CISA pushes Federal agencies to retire end-of-support edge devices.

It also features a probe into a record-breaking 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in November 2025, stopped by Cloudflare, along with findings that nearly 5 million web servers are exposing Git metadata, posing a broad risk of code and credential leaks. Additional items in the round include U.S. CISA adding flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, a Substack breach claim and confirmation, and other linked analyses across cyber crime, security, and hacking categories.

The newsletter roundup presents international press coverage and related security stories, forming a snapshot of notable incidents and industry developments circulating at the time.