Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware ‘Fast16’ Linked to US-Iran Cyber Tensions

This SecurityWeek feed highlights multiple high-impact cyber stories: researchers linked a pre-Stuxnet sabotage malware called “Fast16” to US–Iran cyber tensions (it targeted high-precision calculation software and had self-propagation capabilities); a US federal agency’s Cisco firewall was found infected with a persistent “Firestarter” backdoor providing remote access; and a Bitwarden NPM package was compromised in a Checkmarx-linked supply-chain attack claimed by TeamPCP (references to the Shai-Hulud worm). Separately, CrowdStrike patched a critical LogScale vulnerability and Tenable fixed a