The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity – Week 12

Operation Synergia III and complementary international operations disrupted wide-ranging cybercrime infrastructure across 72 countries, taking down tens of thousands of malicious IPs and enabling arrests and ongoing investigations; the EU also sanctioned companies and individuals tied to state-linked attacks. Researchers uncovered the DarkSword iOS exploit chain (affecting iOS versions 18.4–18.7) delivering data-stealing malware families (GHOSTBLADE, GHOSTKNIFE, GHOSTSABER) and abusing multiple CVEs, while the Interlock ransomware group actively exploited a critical Cisco FMC zero-day (CVE-2026-20131, CVSS 10.0) to breach enterprise firewalls, underscoring urgent patching and mitigations for affected systems and devices.