Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s
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What happened
A batch of Wired security stories from late March 2026 covering multiple high-impact cyber and privacy events: Iranian-affiliated hackers breached Kash Patel’s personal email (not the FBI), and Iranian actors have disrupted medical care in Maryland; a powerful iPhone exploit called “DarkSword” (affecting iOS 18 via malicious websites) has been observed in the wild and attributed to Russian operators; US authorities took down several large botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had infected millions of devices; a Telegram-based crypto-fraud marketplace (Xinbi Guarantee) is facing UK‑s
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- 2026-03-29T20:52:14Z
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