EU age verification, train brakes vulnerability, Grok-4 jailbroken

Pentagon welcomes Chinese engineers into its environment HazyBeacon: It’s not a beer, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste What the world needs now is another framework Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To learn more and start your free trial, visit ThreatLocker.com/CISO.

EU states to test age verification app  (Reuters) AAR pledges to start fixing 20-year old vulnerability next year (Security Week) Grok-4 jailbroken in two days (Infosecurity Magazine) DoD awards contracts for agentic AI (Reuters) eSIM vulnerability exposes billions of IoT devices (Infosecurity Magazine) UK launches Vulnerability Research Initiative (Bleeping Computer) Interlock ransomware using FileFix for malware (Bleeping Computer) Disinformation groups spoofs European journalists (The Record) Elmo gets hacked (AP News) Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To learn more and start your free trial, visit ThreatLocker.com/CISO.

CISA gives one day for Citrix Bleed 2 fix Google Gemini flaw hijacks email summaries for phishing Louis Vuitton says UK customer data stolen in cyber-attack Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To learn more and start your free trial, visit ThreatLocker.com/CISO. Find the stories behind the headlines at CISOseries.com.

Link to episode page This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest Jim Bowie, vp, CISO, Tampa General Hospital Thanks to our show sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your compliance controls right now? Like…right now? We know that real-time visibility is critical for security, but when it comes to our GRC programs…we rely on point-in-time checks. But more than 9,000 companies have continuous visibility into their controls with Vanta. Vanta brings automation to evidence collection across over 35 frameworks, like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. They also centralize key workflows like policies, access reviews, and reporting, and helps you get security questionnaires done 5 times faster with AI. Now that’s…a new way to GRC. Get started at Vanta.com/headlines All links and the video of this episode can be found on CISO Series.com  

Look Out! Another Outlook Outage Iranian APTs increased activity against U.S. industries in late spring Russian basketball player arrested in France over alleged ransomware ties Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your compliance controls right now? Like...right now? We know that real-time visibility is critical for security, but when it comes to our GRC programs…we rely on point-in-time checks. But more than 9,000 companies have continuous visibility into their controls with Vanta. Vanta brings automation to evidence collection across over 35 frameworks, like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. They also centralize key workflows like policies, access reviews, and reporting, and helps you get security questionnaires done 5 times faster with AI. Now that’s…a new way to GRC. Get started at Vanta.com/headlines Find the stories behind the headlines at CISOseries.com.

AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird could allow for arbitrary code execution Bitcoin Depot breach exposes data of nearly 27,000 crypto users, More than $40 million stolen from GMX crypto platform Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your compliance controls right now? Like...right now? We know that real-time visibility is critical for security, but when it comes to our GRC programs…we rely on point-in-time checks. But more than 9,000 companies have continuous visibility into their controls with Vanta. Vanta brings automation to evidence collection across over 35 frameworks, like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. They also centralize key workflows like policies, access reviews, and reporting, and helps you get security questionnaires done 5 times faster with AI. Now that’s…a new way to GRC. Get started at Vanta.com/headlines  

Four members of President Trump's cabinet impersonated Is this some kind of a game? Batavia attacks Russian industrial companies Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your compliance controls right now? Like...right now? We know that real-time visibility is critical for security, but when it comes to our GRC programs…we rely on point-in-time checks. But more than 9,000 companies have continuous visibility into their controls with Vanta. Vanta brings automation to evidence collection across over 35 frameworks, like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. They also centralize key workflows like policies, access reviews, and reporting, and helps you get security questionnaires done 5 times faster with AI. Now that’s…a new way to GRC. Get started at Vanta.com/headlines  

Call of Duty game pulled from PC store after reported exploit U.S. military gets cybersecurity boost Bank employee helped hackers steal $100M Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your compliance controls right now? Like...right now? We know that real-time visibility is critical for security, but when it comes to our GRC programs…we rely on point-in-time checks. But more than 9,000 companies have continuous visibility into their controls with Vanta. Vanta brings automation to evidence collection across over 35 frameworks, like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. They also centralize key workflows like policies, access reviews, and reporting, and helps you get security questionnaires done 5 times faster with AI. Now that’s…a new way to GRC. Get started at Vanta.com/headlines  

Ingram Micro suffers ransomware attack Hacker leaks Telefónica data allegedly from new breach ChatGPT prone to recommending wrong URLs, creating a new phishing opportunity Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Do you know the status of your compliance controls right now? Like...right now? We know that real-time visibility is critical for security, but when it comes to our GRC programs…we rely on point-in-time checks. But more than 9,000 companies have continuous visibility into their controls with Vanta. Vanta brings automation to evidence collection across over 35 frameworks, like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. They also centralize key workflows like policies, access reviews, and reporting, and helps you get security questionnaires done 5 times faster with AI. Now that’s…a new way to GRC. Get started at Vanta.com/headlines Find the stories behind the headlines at CISOseries.com.    

Undetectable Android spyware leaks user logins Hunters ransomware group shuts doors Medical device company Surmodics reports cyberattack Huge thanks to our sponsor, Palo Alto Networks You’re moving fast in the cloud and so are attackers. But while SecOps and cloud security teams are working in silos, attackers are exploiting the gaps between them. Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks bridges this divide, unifying teams and stopping attacks with real-time cloud security that includes AI-powered protection, detection and automated response capabilities. Threats are stopped in minutes instead of days, and teams can finally protect cloud environments at the speed and scale of modern attacks. To learn more about how Cortex Cloud stops cloud attacks before they become breaches, visit: paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cloud-detection-and-response Find the stories behind the headlines at CISOseries.com.