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This collection of SecurityWeek stories highlights multiple high-risk incidents and emerging threats: a Microsoft Defender zero-day is being actively exploited to access the SAM database, extract NTLM hashes and achieve SYSTEM privileges; Apple released patches addressing an iOS flaw that could recover deleted chats; Palo Alto researchers demonstrated Zealot, a multi-agent AI proof-of-concept capable of autonomous cloud reconnaissance, exploitation and exfiltration, while Chinese firm 360 Digital Security claims AI-discovered vulnerabilities; luxury cosmetics firm Rituals disclosed a breach (n
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