Security Affairs newsletter Round 566 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2026

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FBI probing intrusion into a system managing sensitive surveillance information
Reading White House President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America (March 2026)
Iran-linked hackers target IP cameras across Israel and Gulf states for military intelligence
Iran-linked MuddyWater deploys Dindoor malware against U.S. organizations
Cisco flags ongoing exploitation of two recently patched Catalyst SD-WAN flaws
Microsoft warns of ClickFix campaign exploiting Windows Terminal to deliver Lumma Stealer
Iran-nexus APT Dust Specter targets Iraq officials with new malware
U.S. CISA adds Apple, Rockwell, and Hikvision  flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Google GTIG: 90 zero-day flaws exploited in 2025 as enterprise targets grow
Phobos Ransomware admin faces up to 20 years after guilty plea
Russian APT targets Ukraine with BadPaw and MeowMeow malware
Operation Leak: FBI and Europol dismantle LeakBase Cybercrime forum
Google uncovers Coruna iOS Exploit Kit targeting iOS 13–17.2.1
Cisco fixes maximum-severity Secure FMC bugs threatening firewall security
Automate or orchestrate? Implementing a streamlined remediation program to shorten MTTR
LastPass warns of spoofed alerts aimed at stealing master passwords
From phishing to Google Drive C2: Silver Dragon expands APT41 playbook
U.S. CISA adds Qualcomm and Broadcom VMware Aria Operations flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Data breach at University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center impacts 1.2 Million individuals
Facebook is experiencing a global outage
Ariomex, Iran-based crypto exchange, suffers data leak
Oracle EBS 2025 campaign impacts Madison Square Garden, sensitive data leaked
Phishing campaign exploits OAuth redirection to bypass defenses
Android devices hit by exploited Qualcomm flaw CVE-2026-21385
Chrome security flaw enabled spying via Gemini Live assistant
Middle east crisis prompts UK NCSC warning on potential Iranian cyber activity
Russia-linked APT28 exploited MSHTML zero-day CVE-2026-21513 before patch
APT37 combines cloud storage and USB implants to infiltrate air-gapped systems
Europol’s Project Compass nets 30 arrests in crackdown on “The Com”
ClawJacked flaw exposed OpenClaw users to data theft
Ukrainian hacker pleads guilty to running OnlyFake AI ID scam site
ShinyHunters leaked the full Odido dataset
Claude code abused to steal 150GB in cyberattack on Mexican agencies
CVE-2025-64328 exploitation impacts 900 Sangoma FreePBX instances

International Press – Newsletter

Cybercrime

Project Compass: first operational results against The Com network  

Creator Of “OnlyFake” Charged And Pleads Guilty To Selling More Than 10,000 Digital Fake Identification Documents  

U.S. Attorney’s Office EDNC Announces Seizure of $61 Million Dollars’ Worth of Cryptocurrency  

OAuth redirection abuse enables phishing  

LastPass Alerts Customers of Fake Email Chains Used in New Phishing Campaign; No Impact to LastPass Systems  

Major data leak forum dismantled in global action against cybercrime forum  

Global phishing-as-a-service platform taken down in coordinated public-private action 

Russian Ransomware Administrator Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud Conspiracy  

FBI arrests suspect linked to $46M crypto theft from US Marshals  

Malware

Malware Reverse Engineering is no longer a human problem!  

Inside a fake Google security check that becomes a browser RAT  

InstallFix: How attackers are weaponizing malvertized install guides  

New BoryptGrab Stealer Targets Windows Users via Deceptive GitHub Pages 

Hacking

Coruna: The Mysterious Journey of a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit

Claude didn’t just plan an attack on Mexico’s government. It executed one for a month — across four domains your security stack can’t see  

OpenClaw Vulnerability: Website-to-Local Agent Takeover  

Hundreds of Thousands of Mobile Apps May Now Be Exposing AI Access  

Taming Agentic Browsers: Vulnerability in Chrome Allowed Extensions to Hijack New Gemini Panel  

Google Confirms CVE-2026-21385 in Qualcomm Android Component Exploited 

Streamlining Vulnerability Research with the idalib Rust Bindings for IDA 9.2  

Defending the gates: How a global coalition disrupted Tycoon 2FA, a major driver of initial access and large-scale online impersonation  

Retaliatory Hacktivist DDoS Activity Following Operation Epic Fury/Roaring Lion  

Cisco Warns of More Catalyst SD-WAN Flaws Exploited in the Wild

Intelligence and Information Warfare

StegaBin: 26 Malicious npm Packages Use Pastebin Steganography to Deploy Multi-Stage Credential Stealer

Inside the Fix: Analysis of In-the-Wild Exploit of CVE-2026-21513  

Hacked traffic cams and hijacked TVs: How cyber operations supported the war against Iran  

UK firms in Middle East face heightened threat from Iran hackers, agency warns 

Intelligence firms watch for uptick in Iran cyber activity after US, Israel strikes  

Alert: NCSC advises UK organisations to take action following conflict in the Middle East 

SloppyLemming Deploys BurrowShell and Rust-Based RAT to Target Pakistan and Bangladesh 

Silver Dragon Targets Organizations in Southeast Asia and Europe  

Retaliatory Hacktivist DDoS Activity Following Operation Epic Fury/Roaring Lion  

Exposing a Russian Campaign Targeting Ukraine Using New Malware Duo: BadPaw and MeowMeow  

Dust Specter APT Targets Government Officials in Iraq  

Iranian APT Hacked US Airport, Bank, Software Company

Seedworm: Iranian APT on Networks of U.S. Bank, Airport, Software Company  

Threat Advisory Special Report: Iranian Threat Actor Group Update

Interplay between Iranian Targeting of IP Cameras and Physical Warfare in the Middle East      

UAT-9244 targets South American telecommunication providers with three new malware implants

Cybersecurity

Cyber Battlefield: Ariomex, Iran-Based Crypto Exchange, Suffers Data Leak 

Quantum Decryption of RSA Is Much Closer Than Expected

Now is a good time for doing crime  

iVerify Details First Known Mass iOS Attack  

Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Are Sending Footage of People Having Sex, Undressing, and Using the Bathroom to Workers in Kenya

Look What You Made Us Patch: 2025 Zero-Days in Review

US banks on high alert for cyberattacks as Iran war escalates         

White House Unveils President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America  

FBI investigating ‘suspicious’ cyber activity on system holding sensitive surveillance information  

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Pierluigi Paganini

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