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Researchers Say AI Bots Blur Lines Between Identity, Consent and Cyber Defense
As generative AI programs continue to evolve, they are introducing new threats to the modern workplace. Digital twins, once confined to industrial systems, now enable hyper-realistic copies of actual employees to mimic vocal patterns, behaviors and even pick up on decision-making trends.

Ransomware Attacks Pummel Critical National Infrastructure Sectors, Experts Warn
The oil and gas sector in Pakistan is on high alert following a ransomware attack against the state-owned oil and gas company Pakistan Petroleum, an instance of ransomware impacting critical infrastructure in a year that has already tallied hundreds of incidents.

Schellman CEO Avani Desai on Balancing Innovation and Compliance in Uncertain Market
The Trump administration’s AI action plan signals a major deregulatory shift, setting up a patchwork of state regulations on AI deployments. Company policies must be “flexible enough to meet the strictest state without rewriting them every few months," said Avani Desai, CEO, Schellman.

Microsoft Urges Immediate Mitigation as State Actors Target SharePoint Flaw
Hackers breached a sensitive database containing office locations and personal details of elected officials and staff in Canada's House of Commons. Hackers were able to "exploit a recent Microsoft vulnerability," according to an internal email sent to members and staff.

Also: Spain Defies Pressure to Eject Huawei, Hackers Leak North Korea Kimsuky Data
This week, Norway said Russian hackers attacked a flood gate, Spain defied pressure to eject Huawei, a cyberattack against the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General. Hackers leaked stolen North Korean Kimsuky data, Microsoft patched a Kerberos zero-day and a big Chrome bug bounty.

US Treasury Says Crypto Exchange Helped Launder $100 Million for Ransomware Gangs
The U.S. Department of Treasury sanctioned Thursday a Russian founder and co-owners of the Garantex cryptocurrency exchange in a bid to tighten methods criminal hackers use to launder extortion money and Kremlin sanctions busting. Regulators also sanctioned Garantex successor Grinex.

Report North Korean Hacking Group Adds Ransomware to Traditional Playbook
A ScarCruft subgroup dubbed "ChinopuNK" has launched a disruptive ransomware campaign across South Korea, using phishing lures, AutoIt loaders and microphone-capturing malware - marking a major change in the North Korean hacking group's traditionally espionage-focused cyber tactics.

Zelle Provider Allowed $1 Billion of Fraudulent Transactions, Prosecutors Say
The state of New York is suing the privately held fintech company behind the Zelle money transfer system in a complaint that alleges years of poor cybersecurity and protections against fraud. The New York complaint targets Early Warning Services, the company behind the money transfer app.

Congress Pressed to Fund Federal Court System Cyber Upgrades Amid Escalating Risks
A breach of the U.S. national court filing system intensified concerns over the federal judiciary's cybersecurity, with critics urging reforms and congressional funding to close gaps that could expose sealed cases, confidential informants and other sensitive information.

HHS Says New FAQs Support HHS' 'Make Health IT Great Again' Interoperability Effort
Federal regulators issued updated HIPAA privacy rule guidance that aims to clarify when patients' protected health information can be shared with value-based care organizations, and also the types of health records that patients have a right to access upon request. Does it cover any new ground?

Majority of Attacks Target Operational Technology Networks
Exploitation attempts against a severe vulnerability in a runtime system widely deployed in operational technology environments spiked globally in the days after open-source maintainers of the Erlang/OTP project published a patch. Attackers could take full control of systems.

Coinbase's Philip Martin on How Attackers Are Spending Months on Crypto Exploits
"The attackers are willing to invest time, effort and expense in attacking cryptocurrency companies because that's where the money is," says Philip Martin, chief security officer at Coinbase, warning that defenders must stay agile to counter increasingly targeted and sophisticated threats.

City Refuses to Pay Ransom; Employees Report to Arena to Reset Passwords in Person
The Minnesota city of St. Paul continues to respond to a ransomware attack, with the mayor saying it will pay no ransom. Instead, it's restoring systems from backups and verifying employees' identity at a centralized location before resetting their passwords.

Philippe Laulheret of Cisco Talos on Vulnerabilities in ControlVault Firmware
Security flaws in Dell's ControlVault firmware allowed attackers to run code on the chip, extract stored secrets and alter its behavior. By chaining these exploits, they could send malicious data to Windows components, said Philippe Laulheret, senior vulnerability researcher at Cisco Talos.

Honeywell's DeLuccia Offers Practical Steps to Address Barriers to AI Adoption
Organizations struggle to implement AI at enterprise scale because of basic fears that extend beyond technical issues. It often comes down to fundamental questions about the nature of AI and organizational accountability. "If I turn it on, am I liable for it?" asks Honeywell's James DeLuccia.

Midnight Blue's Jos Wetzels on TETRA's Design Flaws and Probable Attacks
Researchers found encryption weaknesses and design flaws in TETRA, the radio system used by law enforcement and critical infrastructure, that allow interception and malicious traffic injection. Midnight Blue's Jos Wetzels says exploiting these flaws could disrupt essential services.

$2,700 Is the Average Price for Initial Access to a Victim, Plus Privileges
Why hack, when hackers are willing to sell guaranteed access to breached networks? More and more cybercrooks agree they'd rather outsource than bother with the tedium of actual network penetration, leading to a flourishing initial access market.

Clinical Diagnostics Lab Hack Among Latest Recent Cyberattacks in the Netherlands
A Dutch population health research agency is notifying 485,000 participants of a cervical cancer screening program of a hacking incident at a clinical diagnostics laboratory that potentially compromised patients' personal and health information, including lab test results.

RomCom Group Deployed SnipBot, RustyClaw and Mythic Agent Variants
A Russian speaking hacking group is exploiting a zero-day flaw in WinRAR, a sign of the group's growing sophistication and evolution from a cybercrime outfit into a cyberespionage operation. The campaign exploited a vulnerability now tracked as CVE-2025-8088, a path traversal vulnerability.

NIST's Apostol Vassilev Explains Need for Dynamic Response, Not Static Testing
As AI models grow in scale and power, leading to even more unpredictable outcomes, security teams are grappling with how to defend technologies that some experts can't begin to fully comprehend. Cyber response teams are exploring the practice of continuous red teaming, said NIST's Apostol Vassilev.