Cyberattack on a Car Breathalyzer Firm Leaves Drivers Stuck
2026-03-23T08:52:18Z•23809fb7dc96c2fdab83c8496b685de4dd011ff8539107e41d58ea410eec8118
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What happened
A roundup of major security and privacy incidents: a novel iPhone exploit called “DarkSword” is being used in the wild to compromise devices running iOS 18 via web pages (impacting potentially hundreds of millions of devices); US authorities disrupted several large botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had infected millions of devices; Iranian-linked hackers (including the ‘Handala’ persona) disrupted medical care and targeted medical-technology firm Stryker; GPS/electronic-warfare activity near Iran is degrading navigation and delivery apps; an attack on a car breathalyzer vendor/İ
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- 2026-03-23T08:52:18Z
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