Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Also: Potential Government Policy Changes; AI-Driven Zero-Day DiscoveriesIn the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed how the recent election results may reshape U.S. cybersecurity policy and healthcare privacy under HIPAA and the groundbreaking role of artificial intelligence in Google’s recent discovery of a critical zero-day vulnerability.

US politicians and Israeli officials among the top targets for the IRGC’s cyber unit Google has joined Microsoft in publishing intel on Iranian cyber influence activity following a recent uptick in attacks that led to data being leaked from the Trump re-election campaign.…

US politicians and Israeli officials among the top targets for the IRGC’s cyber unit Google has joined Microsoft in publishing intel on Iranian cyber influence activity following a recent uptick in attacks that led to data being leaked from the Trump re-election campaign.…

The new restriction to Google’s AI chatbot was first implemented in India, which holds elections in April, before being rolled across other nations

AI's Speed and Scale of Deception Is 'Unprecedented," Says US SenatorTwenty technology giants including Google and Meta pledged Friday to combat the presence of artificially generated deepfake content meant to deceive voters as more than 4 billion people in more than 70 countries prepare for elections this year.

Just in time for the US election season, one of the Kremlin's favorite hack-and-leak spy groups — Star Blizzard — has developed its very first custom backdoor.

Also: Iranian election hackers are back, the TSA gets regulatory on train cybersecurity, and more In brief Google has released a new open source software tool to help businesses better understand the risks to their software supply chains by aggregating security metadata into a queryable, standardized database.…

Plus: Truth Social barred from Play until it shows just one iota of decency Google and its YouTube subsidiary have joined other social media networks pledging to keep the 2022 US midterm elections safe and free from Russian trolls — and anyone else spewing democracy-damaging disinformation – by taking down such content.…