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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
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THN · BleepingComputer · Krebs · Dark Reading · SANS

📰 Cybersecurity News Headlines

Top stories from leading cybersecurity publications as of March 17, 2026.

  1. GlassWorm Malware Evolves to Hide in Dependencies
    — Dark Reading

    Researchers have identified dozens of malicious GlassWorm extensions that come with new evasion techniques.
  2. Inside Olympic Cybersecurity: Lessons From Paris 2024 to Milan Cortina 2026
    — Dark Reading

    Discover how Franz Regul, former CISO for the Paris 2024 Olympics, tackled unique cybersecurity challenges to protect the Olympics from evol…
  3. GlassWorm Attack Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Force-Push Malware Into Python Repos
    — The Hacker News

    The GlassWorm malware campaign is being used to fuel an ongoing attack that leverages the stolen GitHub tokens to inject malware into hundre…
  4. Stryker attack wiped tens of thousands of devices, no malware needed
    — Bleeping Computer

    Last week's cyberattack on medical technology giant Stryker was limited to its internal Microsoft environment and remotely wiped tens of tho…
  5. CISA flags Wing FTP Server flaw as actively exploited in attacks
    — Bleeping Computer

    CISA warned U.S. government agencies to secure their Wing FTP Server instances against an actively exploited vulnerability that may be chain…
  6. UK’s Companies House confirms security flaw exposed business data
    — Bleeping Computer

    Companies House, a British government agency that operates the registry for all U.K. companies, says its WebFiling service is back online a…
  7. Microsoft Exchange Online outage blocks access to mailboxes
    — Bleeping Computer

    Microsoft is working to address an ongoing Exchange Online outage that is preventing customers from accessing their mailboxes and calendars.…
  8. ⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Days, Router Botnets, AWS Breach, Rogue AI Agents & More
    — The Hacker News

    Some weeks in security feel normal. Then you read a few tabs and get that immediate “ah, great, we’re doing this now” feeling. This we…
  9. Attackers Abuse LiveChat to Phish Credit Card, Personal Data
    — Dark Reading

    A social engineering campaign impersonating PayPal and Amazon uses customer support interactions to acquire sensitive info.
  10. /proxy/ URL scans with IP addresses, (Mon, Mar 16th)
    — SANS ISC

    Attempts to find proxy servers are among the most common scans our honeypots detect. Most of the time, the attacker attempts to use a host h…
  11. Why Security Validation Is Becoming Agentic
    — The Hacker News

    If you run security at any reasonably complex organization, your validation stack probably looks something like this: a BAS tool in one corn…
  12. ClickFix Campaigns Spread MacSync macOS Infostealer via Fake AI Tool Installers
    — The Hacker News

    Three different ClickFix campaigns have been found to act as a delivery vector for the deployment of a macOS information stealer called MacS…

Generated by HiveNet.ai Threat Intelligence Platform · March 17, 2026 · Sources: The Hacker News, Bleeping Computer, Krebs on Security, Dark Reading, SANS ISC