Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Healthcare Coordinating Council Highlights AI Risks, Potential Medical MishapsHealthcare organizations face an array of difficult cybersecurity, privacy, patient safety, supply chain and operational resiliency issues as they roll out artificial intelligence tools. A new Health Sector Coordinating Council playbook aims to help by providing a voluntary governance framework.

License Frontier AI to Practice Medicine, Argues JAMA ArticleScrutiny is intensifying around the quickly evolving role that AI is playing in healthcare. That includes issues around the transparency and safety of consumer health chatbots and also whether a new clinical AI licensing framework is necessary to protect the integrity of medicine.

Countries Are Pouring Billions Into Domestic AI Stacks to Escape US-China DominanceBy 2027, more than one-third of the world's nations will be locked into region-specific AI platforms built on proprietary data, infrastructure and governance frameworks, according to Gartner. Nations are now safeguarding LLMs in the same way they do critical infrastructure.

Artificial intelligence use in healthcare is only as safe and accurate as the governance and trust frameworks surrounding it, particularly in clinical environments where errors or hallucinations can directly impact patient care, said Dave Bailey, vice president at consultancy Clearwater.

Artificial intelligence use in healthcare is only as safe and accurate as the governance and trust frameworks surrounding it, particularly in clinical environments where errors or hallucinations can directly impact patient care, said Dave Bailey, vice president at consultancy Clearwater.

Analysts Say Pentagon Must Add Guardrails to Musk's Grok in Military SystemsCybersecurity analysts said Elon Musk’s Grok artificial intelligence model lacks compliance with key federal AI risk frameworks, which will likely force the Pentagon to rely on containment measures while conducting adversarial testing and restricting access to prevent unpredictable or unsafe behavior when embedding the model across its systems.

Ovoid-themed in-memory malware offers a menu for mayhem ‘EggStreme’ framework looks like the sort of thing Beijing would find handy in its ongoing territorial beefs Infosec outfit Bitdefender says it’s spotted a strain of in-memory malware that looks like the work of Chinese advanced persistent threat groups that wanted to achieve persistent access at a “military company” in the Philippines.…

An advanced persistent threat (APT) group from China has been attributed to the compromise of a Philippines-based military company using a previously undocumented fileless malware framework called EggStreme

Organizations handling various forms of sensitive data or personally identifiable information (PII) require adherence to regulatory compliance standards and frameworks. These compliance standards also apply to organizations operating in regulated sectors such as healthcare, finance, government contracting, or education. Some of these standards and frameworks include, but are not limited to:

A critical infrastructure entity within Ukraine was targeted by a previously unseen data wiper malware named PathWiper, according to new findings from Cisco Talos

The US military and law enforcement learned to outthink insurgents. It's time for cybersecurity to learn to outsmart and outmaneuver threat actors with the same framework.

ENISA's Marnix Dekker on Supply Chain Attacks, Harmonizing the New NIS2 RegulationsThe European Union Agency for Cybersecurity is at the center of rolling out new cybersecurity frameworks for critical infrastructure providers across Europe. But a major priority, according to ENISA's Marnix Dekker, is helping smaller vendors withstand supply chain attacks.

Red Team Finds Vulnerabilities in Critical Infrastructure Org’s Security FrameworkThe U.S., cyber defense agency is urging critical infrastructure operators to learn from the experience of a volunteer read teaming test and not rely too heavily on host-based endpoint detection and response solutions at the expense of network layer protections.

The voluntary recommendations from the Department of Homeland Security cover how artificial intelligence should be used in the power grid, water system, air travel network, healthcare and other pieces of critical infrastructure.

Fall is in the air and frameworks for mitigating AI risk are dropping like leaves onto policymakers’ desks. From California’s SB 1047 bill and NIST’s model-testing deal with OpenAI and Anthropic to REAIM’s blueprint for military AI governance, AI regulation is proving to be a hot and complicated topic.

Our collection of the most relevant reporting and industry perspectives for those guiding cybersecurity strategies and focused on SecOps. Also included: Inside China's civilian hacker army; outer space threats; and NIST 2.0 Framework secrets for success.

The MITRE Corporation has officially made available a new threat-modeling framework called EMB3D for makers of embedded devices used in critical infrastructure environments

Healthcare sector organizations often still struggle to implement security frameworks effectively, often not fully understanding the requirements or failing to integrate them into their overall cybersecurity strategy, said Keith Forrester of security firm Optiv, who offers tips to help.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's updated Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 can help healthcare organizations better formalize their governance functions to enhance their cybersecurity posture and resilience, said Robert Booker, chief strategy officer at HITRUST.

Experts Call for a Revised Implementation Plan and a New Focus on EnforcementThe Office of the National Cyber Director says a second iteration of the implementation plan for the national cybersecurity strategy is on its way, just as experts tell ISMG under-resourced federal agencies and critical infrastructure entities are struggling to achieve the strategy's framework.