Coordinated kinetic escalation on February 28, 2026 has intensified a regional cyber threat environment in which Iranian state-sponsored groups and allied regional actors have a documented history of pre-positioning inside Western defense, finance, and technology networks. CloudSEK's research found over 100 exposed credential sets and 80+ publicly accessible MLOps deployments that permit unauthenticated access to training data, models, and cloud storage credentials, highlighting an urgent need to secure MLOps infrastructure #MLOps #APT34