INTERPOL Operation Ramz Disrupts MENA Cybercrime Networks with 201 Arrests

A large, multi-topic security roundup: INTERPOL's Operation Ramz disrupted MENA cybercrime networks with 201 arrests and 382 additional suspects identified. Numerous high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities were disclosed and actively exploited (notably Cisco Catalyst SD‑WAN auth bypass, NGINX heap overflow, Ivanti Xtraction critical flaw, and on‑prem Exchange spoofing), alongside public zero-days and privilege‑escalation bugs (MiniPlasma for Windows, Fragnesia Linux LPE). Multiple supply‑chain and credential incidents were reported — malicious npm packages and node-ipc backdoors, TanStack/