Security news weekly round-up - 6th March 2026

This week's security review is centered around hackers — the good ones and the bad ones. If you're not familiar, the good hackers are the security researchers who investigate how we [the general Internet users] can stay safe online. Conversely, the bad hackers are those who devise mischievous ways to make the life of Internet users miserable, e.g., wasting users' time, stealing data and money, e.t.c. APT37 hackers use new malware to breach air-gapped networks When you read the word "air-gapped networks", you should automatically think that such networks exist in critical infrastructures where security is of great importance. Also, they should be "safe" from outside intrusion. Well, that's not always true, and this article is proof that threat actors still find ways to steal data from air-gapped networks. From the article: The infection chain begins when the victim opens a malicious Windows shortcut file (LNK), which deploys a PowerShell script that extracts payloads embedded in the LNK