⚡ Weekly Recap: Qualcomm 0-Day, iOS Exploit Chains, AirSnitch Attack & Vibe-Coded Malware  Ravie Lakshmanan  Mar 09, 2026 Cybersecurity / Hacking Another week in cybersecurity. Another week of "you've got to be kidding me." Attackers were busy. Defenders were busy. And somewhere in the middle, a whole lot of people had a very bad Monday morning. That's kind of just how it goes now. The good news? There were some actual wins this week. Real ones. The kind where the good guys showed up, did the work, and made a dent. It doesn't always happen, so when it does, it's worth noting. The bad news? For every win, there's a fresh headache waiting right behind it. New tricks, old tricks dressed up in new clothes, and a few things that'll make you want to go touch grass and never log back in. But you will. We all do. So here's everything that mattered this week — the wins, the warnings, and the stuff you really shouldn't ignore. ⚡ Threat of the Week Tycoon 2FA and LeakBase Operations Dismantled — The infrastructure hosting the Tycoon2FA service, which Europol said was among the largest adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing operations worldwide, has been dismantled by a coalition of security companies and law enforcement agencies. "Taking down infrastructure associated with Tycoon 2FA and identifying the individual allegedly responsible for creating this prolific hacking tool will have a significant impact on overall MFA credential phishing, and hopefully strike a blow to the world's most prolific AitM phishing-as-a-service," Proofpoint said in a statement shared with The Hacker News. Phishing kits and PhaaS platforms have become an Achilles' heel in recent years, streamlining and democratizing phishing attacks for less technically savvy hackers by providing them with a suite of tools to create convincing emails and phishing pages that unsuspecting victims will engage with. For a relatively modest fee, aspiring cybercriminals can subscribe to these services and carry out phishing attacks at scale. In a similar development, authorities also took down LeakBase , one of the world's largest online forums for cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime tools. While the disruption is a positive development, it's known that such takedowns typically create only short-term disruptions, as the ecosystem adapts by migrating to other forums or more resilient distribution channels, like Telegram. Shadow AI Is EVERYWHERE. Here's How You Can Find and Secure It Shadow AI is quietly accessing sensitive data across your SaaS environment. Learn how to close AI blind spots and get ahead of data exposure risks with this new guide. Get Answers Now ➝ 🔔 Top News Anthropic Finds 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities in Firefox — Anthropic said it discovered 22 new security vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser using its Claude Opus 4.6 large language model (LLM)as part of a security partnership with Mozilla. Of these, 14 have been classified as high, seven have been classified as moderate, and one has been rated low in severity. The issues were addressed in Firefox 148, released late last month. The vulnerabilities were identified over a two-week period in January 2026. The company noted that the cost of identifying vulnerabilities is cheaper than creating an exploit for them, and the model is better at finding issues than at exploiting them. Qualcomm Flaw Exploited in the Wild — A high-severity security flaw impacting Qualcomm chips used in Android devices has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-21385 (CVSS score: 7.8), a buffer over-read in the Graphics component that could result in memory corruption and arbitrary code execution. There are currently no details on how the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. However, Google acknowledged in its monthly Android security bulletin that "there are indications that CVE-2026-21385 may be under limited, targeted exploitation." Coruna iOS Exploit Kit Uses 23 Exploits Against Older iOS Devices — Google disclosed details of a new and powerful exploit kit dubbed Coruna (aka CryptoWaters) targeting Apple iPhone models running iOS versions between 13.0 and 17.2.1. The exploit kit featured five full iOS exploit chains and a total of 23 exploits, the company said. What makes it different is that it started with a commercial surveillance vendor in February 2025, got picked up by what seems like a Russian espionage group targeting Ukrainians in July 2025, and ended up in the hands of financially motivated attackers in China going after crypto wallets by the end of the year. Coruna began its life as a surveillance exploit kit, but by the time it reached the Chinese cybercrime gang, it was heavily focused on financial theft. It's not known how the exploit kit got passed between multiple threat actors of varied motivations. This has raised the possibility of a secondhand market where it's resold to other threat actors, who end up repurposing them for their own objectives. Transparent Tribe Unleases Vibeware Against Indian Entities — In a new attack campaign detected by Bitdefender, the Pakistan-aligned threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has leveraged artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding tools to vibe-code malware and use them to target the Indian government and its embassies in multiple foreign countries. These tools are written in niche programming languages like Nim, Zig, and Crystal so as to evade detection. "Rather than a breakthrough in technical sophistication, we are seeing a transition toward AI-assisted malware industrialization that allows the actor to flood target environments with disposable, polyglot binaries," the company said. Iranian Hackers Target U.S. Entities Amid Conflict — The Iranian hacking group tracked as MuddyWater (aka Seedworm) targeted several U.S. companies, including banks, airports, non-profit, and the Israeli arm of a software company, as part of a campaign that began in early February 2026, and continued after the joint U.S.-Israel military strikes on Iran towards the end of the month. The development comes against the backdrop of hacktivist-fueled cyber attacks, with wiper campaigns targeting Israeli energy, financial, government, and utilities sectors. "The trajectory is clear: what began as nation-state-level ICS capability in 2012 [with Shamoon wiper] has become, by 2026, something any motivated actor can attempt with free tools and an internet connection," CloudSEK said in a report last week. "The technical barrier has collapsed. The threat pool has expanded. And the US attack surface has never been larger." Another targeted campaign has distributed a trojanized version of the Red Alert rocket warning Android app to Israeli users via SMS messages impersonating official Home Front Command communications. Once installed, the malware monitors and abuses the granted permissions to collect sensitive data, including SMS messages, contacts, location data, device accounts, and installed applications. The campaign is believed to be the work of a Hamas-affiliated actor known as Arid Viper . There are currently no details available on the scope of the campaign and whether any of the infections were successful. Acronis said it highlights how trusted emergency services can be weaponized during periods of geopolitical tension using social engineering. ‎️‍🔥 Trending CVEs New vulnerabilities show up every week, and the window between disclosure and exploitation keeps getting shorter. The flaws below are this week's most critical — high-severity, widely used software, or already drawing attention from the security community. Check these first, patch what applies, and don't wait on the ones marked urgent — CVE-2026-2796 (Mozilla Firefox), CVE-2026-21385 (Qualcomm), CVE-2026-2256 ( MS-Agent ), CVE-2026-26198 (Ormar), CVE-2026-27966 (langflow), CVE-2025–64712 (Unstructured.io), CVE-2026-24009 (Docling), CVE-2026-23600 (HPE AutoPass License Server), CVE-2026-27636 , CVE-2026-28289 (aka Mail2Shell) (FreeScout), CVE-2025-67736 ( FreePBX ), CVE-2025-34288 (Nagios XI), CVE-2025-14500 ( IceWarp ), CVE-2026-20079 (Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center), CVE-2025-13476 (Viber app for Android), CVE-2026-3336, CVE-2026-3337, CVE-2026-3338 (Amazon AWS-LC), CVE-2026-25611 (MongoDB), CVE-2026-3536, CVE-2026-3537, CVE-2026-3538 (Google Chrome), CVE-2026-27970 (Angular), CVE-2026-29058 (AVideo) a privilege escalation flaw in IPVanish VPN for macOS (no CVE), and and a remote code execution vulnerability in Ghost CMS (no CVE). 🎥 Cybersecurity Webinars Automating Real-World Security Testing to Prove What Actually Works → Running a security test once a year and hoping for the best? 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The attack , at its core, leverages three weaknesses in client isolation implementations: (1) It abuses the group key(s) that are shared between all clients in the same Wi-Fi network, (2) It bypasses client isolation by tricking the gateway into forwarding packets to the victim at the IP layer by taking advantage of the fac