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Sunday, March 8, 2026
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📰 Cybersecurity News Headlines

Top stories from leading cybersecurity publications as of March 8, 2026.

  1. OpenAI Codex Security Scanned 1.2 Million Commits and Found 10,561 High-Severity Issues
    — The Hacker News

    OpenAI on Friday began rolling out Codex Security, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered security agent that's designed to find, validate,…
  2. Termite ransomware breaches linked to ClickFix CastleRAT attacks
    — Bleeping Computer

    Ransomware threat actors tracked as Velvet Tempest are using the ClickFix technique and legitimate Windows utilities to deploy the DonutLoad…
  3. Microsoft: Hackers abusing AI at every stage of cyberattacks
    — Bleeping Computer

    Microsoft says threat actors are increasingly using artificial intelligence in their operations to accelerate attacks, scale malicious activ…
  4. Anthropic Finds 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities Using Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model
    — The Hacker News

    Anthropic on Friday said it discovered 22 new security vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser as part of a security partnership with Moz…
  5. YARA-X 1.14.0 Release, (Sat, Mar 7th)
    — SANS ISC

    YARA-X's 1.14.0 release brings 4 improvements and 2 bugfixes.
  6. Cognizant TriZetto breach exposes health data of 3.4 million patients
    — Bleeping Computer

    TriZetto Provider Solutions, a healthcare IT company that develops software and services used by health insurers and healthcare providers, h…
  7. North Korean APTs Use AI to Enhance IT Worker Scams
    — Dark Reading

    DPRK worker scams are old hat, but they're still working, thanks to AI tools that help with everything from face swapping to daily emails.
  8. CISA warns feds to patch iOS flaws exploited in crypto-theft attacks
    — Bleeping Computer

    CISA ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch three iOS security flaws targeted in cyberespionage and crypto-theft attacks using the Coruna ex…
  9. Transparent Tribe Uses AI to Mass-Produce Malware Implants in Campaign Targeting India
    — The Hacker News

    The Pakistan-aligned threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has become the latest hacking group to embrace artificial intelligence (AI)-pow…
  10. EU Auto Rules Shift Gears on Cybersecurity Standards
    — Dark Reading

    The European Union is taking new precautions as climate change and cybersecurity threats rise across the automotive industry.
  11. Multi-Stage VOID#GEIST Malware Delivering XWorm, AsyncRAT, and Xeno RAT
    — The Hacker News

    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a multi-stage malware campaign that uses batch scripts as a pathway to deliver various e…
  12. Iran's Cyber-Kinetic War Doctrine Takes Shape
    — Dark Reading

    Iran has been hacking IP cameras to plan missile strikes against its enemies, and mounting other attacks on physical assets, showing how cyb…

Generated by CryptXNet.ai Threat Intelligence Platform · March 8, 2026 · Sources: The Hacker News, Bleeping Computer, Krebs on Security, Dark Reading, SANS ISC