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Forrester's Brent Ellis and Dario Maisto on Lessons Learned for Large EnterprisesThe cascading outage across the U.S. East Coast triggered this week by a domain name system failure in an AWS DynamoDB service demonstrates the risks of deep architectural dependencies and the challenges of building true multi-region cloud resilience, said Forrester's Brent Ellis and Dario Maisto.

Airport Baggage Carousels Are Weapons, in the Right HandsConsider the airport baggage carousel. It's big, clunky and tedious to wait by. But look at it like a war planner does, and it's suddenly very different: An almost certainly poorly secured technology system that foreign adversaries could exploit to disrupt military mobilization across the United States.

Chinese smishers — the bane of every American with a phone — have been shifting to lower-frequency, possibly higher-impact government impersonation attacks.

Also: Astra Nova RVV Token Plummets, Canada Fines Cryptomus $126MThis week, U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, Astra Nova RVV token plummeted, an investor lost $3M in a wallet breach linked to Huione Group, Canada fined Cryptomus, a U.K. regulator sued HTX over illegal crypto promotions and hacked LuBian wallets moved $1.8B in bitcoin.

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission says years of progress are being undone amid current administration's cuts America's once-ambitious cyber defences are starting to rust, according to the latest annual report from the US Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), which warns that policy momentum has slowed and even slipped backwards thanks to Trump-era workforce and budget cuts.…

Foundation for Defense of Democracies Warns Against Aligning With New Cyber TreatyThe United Nations' cybercrime treaty, shaped by Russian and Chinese influence, could legitimize global digital repression by enabling prosecutions of journalists, activists and researchers under vague terms - despite U.S. opposition and mounting civil society alarm, analysts warned Thursday.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Motex Lanscope Endpoint Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating it has been actively exploited in the wild

CISA Budget and Staffing Cuts Undermine National Cyber Readiness, Officials WarnFederal cybersecurity reforms have regressed for the first time since 2020, as staffing cuts, diminished agency authority and lost momentum threaten U.S. cyber resilience, according to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s 2025 report, which urges immediate action from the White House and Congress.

Threat actors with ties to China exploited the ToolShell security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to breach a telecommunications company in the Middle East after it was publicly disclosed and patched in July 2025

Government, financial, and industrial organizations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the target of a new campaign dubbed PassiveNeuron, according to findings from Kaspersky

NTLM Reflection Attack Strikes AgainA three-month old flaw in a network protocol for file sharing used by Microsoft is under active exploitation, warns the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The flaw's exploitation bypasses mitigations Microsoft has built over the years to prevent NTLM reflection attacks.

A persistent cyber espionage campaign focused on SQL servers is targeting government, industrial and financial sectors across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, officially confirming a recently disclosed vulnerability impacting Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) has been weaponized in real-world attacks

China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of carrying out a "premeditated" cyber attack targeting the National Time Service Center (NTSC), as it described the U.S. as a "hacker empire" and the "greatest source of chaos in cyberspace." The Ministry of State Security (MSS), in a WeChat post, said it uncovered "irrefutable evidence" of the agency's involvement in the intrusion