China's Salt Typhoon backdoors Latin American orgs with new snooping malware

2026-09-17T19:23:51Z•35e25d16f9a02c0f852f4556809f922b87cee792313bf5a1e49313ab4e48a385
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The feed covers active cyber threats and security incidents, including state-sponsored espionage, exploited zero-days, ransomware and malware campaigns, data breaches, supply-chain attacks, AI-assisted cybercrime, and major vulnerability disclosures. Several reports describe active exploitation of critical flaws affecting Cisco, GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, Apple, Google Pixel, Microsoft, and other products, while additional stories cover exposed customer and patient data, malvertising, and emerging risks from autonomous AI agents.

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