FBI confirms hack of Director Patel's personal email inbox

2026-03-30T01:23:26Z9fa605c6132d632ee4b92dc2b7d4a8cc4e2d3708ddaabb781c5a6ac4a3ebe390
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What happened

Multiple high-impact incidents and actively exploited flaws were reported: the Iran-linked Handala group breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and published data; CISA warns of active exploitation of a critical Langflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-33017) used to hijack AI workflows; a file-read flaw in the Smart Slider 3 WordPress plugin affects hundreds of thousands of sites; a backdoored Telnyx PyPI package distributed credential-stealing malware hidden in a WAV file; and a new Infinity Stealer targets macOS. Additional notable events include large-scale GitHub malware lures via fake

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bleepingcomputer
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9fa605c6132d632ee4b92dc2b7d4a8cc4e2d3708ddaabb781c5a6ac4a3ebe390
Enrichment time
2026-03-30T01:23:26Z
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