Meta Disables 150K Accounts Linked to Southeast Asia Scam Centers in Global Crackdown
2026-03-11T13:24:12Z•26b731e778c57090545dba396cd90c79d70fbafcde34ffa34f099e2d905879e8
CVE-2019-17571CVE-2026-27685FortiGateGoogle-Looker-StudioKadNapLeakyLookerMicrosoft Patch TuesdayNGFWOpenClawRATSAPUNC4899UNC6426account-takedowncrates.iocross-tenantlaw-enforcementmacOS-credentialsmalicious-packagesnpmprivilege-escalationrouter-botnetscam-centerssupply-chainzero-day
What happened
A broad set of security incidents and mitigations was reported: Meta disabled over 150,000 accounts tied to Southeast Asian scam centers (with 21 arrests); Microsoft released patches for 84 vulnerabilities including two public zero-days; SAP issued updates for critical RCE/deserialization bugs (notably CVE-2019-17571 and CVE-2026-27685). Multiple active threats and campaigns were highlighted: UNC6426 abused the nx npm supply-chain compromise to gain AWS admin access; malicious npm and Rust packages (including crates on crates.io) and compromised Chrome extensions have been used to deploy RATs/
Why it matters
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- 2026-03-11T13:24:12Z
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- Yes
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