Iran's Cyber Crosshairs Focus Beyond Critical Infrastructure

This DarkReading roundup highlights a broad surge in active, high-impact threats: nation-state campaigns hitting water and critical systems, multiple zero-day and PoC disclosures (including a Windows Defender exploit), widespread abuse of AI/agentic workflows (agentjacking, rogue agents, exposed AI endpoints), and a rise in financially motivated operations (Djinn and Vidar infostealers, GodDamn and other ransomware leveraging a signed malicious kernel driver, FortiBleed-derived access monetization). Notable operational risks include cloud credential theft, supply-chain/agentic workflow data ex