We open this recap with the Winter Olympic Games in Milano Cortina, facing a wave of cyberattacks attributed to Russia. According to The Register, Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs confirmed the targeting of diplomatic offices and Olympic infrastructure. The defensive posture is further strained by supply chain tensions, as Cloudflare’s CEO threatened to withdraw pro bono protection services following a regulatory dispute with Italian authorities.
In France, ZDNet reported an espionage case in Gironde involving a clandestine interception station operated from a rented Airbnb property. Two Chinese nationals were charged. The seized equipment was designed for sniffing Starlink communications and intercepting military frequencies, illustrating direct risk at the physical communications layer.
We then move to active exploitation and emergency response requirements around Cisco Catalyst SD-wan. Australia’s cyber authorities published an alert on exploitation of Cisco SD-wan appliances. Cisa added CVE 2026 20127 and CVE 2022 20775 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and issued Emergency Directive twenty-six zero three, requiring immediate inventory, forensic artifact collection, patching, and compromise assessment, with a deadline of February twenty-seventh, twenty twenty-six. certfr confirmed active exploitation through alert certfr twenty twenty-six ALE zero zero two, and BleepingComputer reported exploitation activity dating back to twenty twenty-three.
On the malware front, multiple campaigns highlight attacker focus on routers, developers, and stealth tooling. Cisco Talos detailed the dismantling of the DKnife interception framework used since twenty nineteen. Talos also documented the Dohdoor backdoor campaign using DNS over HTTPS through Cloudflare, delivered via DLL sideloading and process hollowing, with EDR bypass techniques involving syscall unhooking in ntdll dot dll. Kaspersky GReAT reported Arkanix Stealer operating as Malware as a Service, with both Python and C plus plus implementations, AES GCM communications, and indications of LLM-assisted development.
Developer ecosystems remain a key battleground. Microsoft warned of fake Next dot js repositories used as job interview lures delivering in-memory JavaScript payloads, and GitLab banned one hundred thirty-one accounts linked to the Contagious Interview operation and the Wagemole scheme. Socket identified the SANDWORM underscore MODE campaign abusing at least nineteen malicious npm packages through typosquatting, including a module targeting AI coding assistants via malicious MCP server injection combined with prompt injection.
We also cover phishing at industrial scale. As reported by KrebsOnSecurity, the Starkiller phishing as a service platform dynamically loads real login pages and acts as a reverse proxy, relaying keystrokes, form submissions, and session tokens through attacker infrastructure, effectively defeating multi-factor authentication by capturing the full authentication flow.
Finally, critical vulnerabilities affected AI development environments. Check Point Research documented vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code enabling command execution via project hooks, MCP consent bypass through project configuration, and clear-text exfiltration of Anthropic API keys by redirecting the ANTHROPIC underscore BASE underscore URL variable to an attacker-controlled endpoint. In parallel, Linux ecosystem updates included Linux seven point zero entering release candidate status, while incident response and law enforcement actions included Eurojust’s takedown of a fraudulent call centre in Dnipro.
All sources are available on https://www.radiocsirt.com/podcast/your-cybersecurity-news-for-saturday-february-28-2026-ep-71/
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