Iran's MuddyWater Hackers Hit US Firms with New 'Dindoor' Backdoor
2026-03-06T20:52:20Z•20abc4c30104b03c267c36d242291181fb14f9201dd7e2d42b491280815e879a
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What happened
Infosecurity Magazine round-up (early March 2026): a surge of high-risk activity across multiple fronts — nation‑state campaigns (notably Iranian MuddyWater/Dindoor and North Korean groups expanding tooling and ransomware), record numbers of zero‑day attacks against enterprise/security/networking appliances, and several high‑impact vulnerabilities disclosed (eg. critical ContextCrush flaw in Context7 MCP Server and a zero‑click Mail2Shell RCE against FreeScout). Exploit kits (Coruna) are targeting older iPhones, Cisco released patches for dozens of flaws including maximum‑severity issues and a
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