Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s

This Wired security roundup highlights a heightened cyber and surveillance threat environment: Iranian state-linked hackers breached the personal email of former DOJ official Kash Patel (while the FBI’s systems were reportedly untouched) and have been tied to disruptive operations including attacks on Maryland hospitals; a powerful iPhone zero-click/drive-by tool called “DarkSword” in the wild can compromise devices running iOS 18 and reportedly threatens hundreds of millions of phones; US law enforcement disrupted multiple large botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that had infected ~3