Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 42 Deals Announced in February 2026

2026-03-09T19:24:12Z6ea1507b89ccd399e94beda8e97f0e354d71321f76a6ac12c228501fb2dab830
BoryptGrabCVE-2026-20127Cisco Catalyst SD-WANClickFixCloudflareGitHub distributionInstallFixWindows Terminal abusearpa TLDcloned-sitesexploitationmalwarephishingstealersurveillance-system

What happened

SecurityWeek headlines (early March 2026) report multiple active and emergent threats: a widely exploited Cisco Catalyst SD‑WAN vulnerability (CVE‑2026‑20127) with observed exploitation attempts from many IPs; phishing and abuse of DNS/Cloudflare using the infrastructure TLD .arpa to hide malicious content; social‑engineering campaigns (ClickFix) that coerce victims into pasting malicious commands into Windows Terminal to evade detection; cloned AI tool/install pages (InstallFix) that replace legitimate install commands with malicious ones; distribution of the BoryptGrab stealer via over 100‑+

Why it matters

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Evidence and limitations

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securityweek
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2026-03-09T19:24:12Z
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