Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s
2026-03-30T08:52:16Z•75dedeb705aca126ec72625fc350c5ae8cdad53ef34e93336269f322c930b640
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What happened
Collection of WIRED security stories (Mar 2026) covering multiple high-impact cyber and national-security developments: Iranian state-linked hackers compromised former Trump aide Kash Patel’s personal email (not the FBI network); a powerful iPhone exploit dubbed “DarkSword” is being used in the wild to fully compromise iOS 18 devices via malicious websites, affecting hundreds of millions of users; US authorities disrupted several large botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had infected millions of devices; UK sanctions targeted the Telegram-based Xinbi Guarantee crypto-scamming/guar
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