Security Affairs newsletter Round 565 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
2026-03-04T21:43:29Z•215931fe1647f92f2995ede29d23f1eac64f6d10fe44750f499f0e302fbed933
CVE-2026-21902.env-exposureAI-incident-responseAeternum-botnetCanadian-TireDefender-evasionIranJuniperLOLBinsManoManoMicrosoftPTX-routerPolygon-smart-contractsPowerShellRATRCEblockchain-C2data-breachinternet-blackoutmisconfigurationtrojanized-gaming-utilities
What happened
This SecurityAffairs digest highlights multiple high-impact incidents: two large retail breaches (Canadian Tire and ManoMano) exposing ~38 million accounts each; Juniper released an out-of-band patch for a critical PTX router RCE (CVE-2026-21902, CVSS 9.3); Microsoft warned of a campaign delivering a stealthy RAT via trojanized gaming utilities using PowerShell, LOLBins and Defender-evasion; Qrator Labs uncovered the Aeternum botnet using Polygon smart contracts for decentralized C2; NetBlocks reported a near-total Iran internet blackout amid strikes; Mysterium VPN found ~12M exposed .env file
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
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- securityaffairs
- Record identifier
- 215931fe1647f92f2995ede29d23f1eac64f6d10fe44750f499f0e302fbed933
- Enrichment time
- 2026-03-04T21:43:29Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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