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Also: Potential Fallout From HIPAA Rule Delay, AI Identity Governance ChallengesIn this week's panel, four ISMG editors discussed the rise of artificial intelligence-powered phishing toolkits, potential fallout from the U.S. government's decision to delay a major overhaul of the HIPAA Security Rule and what security leaders see as the defining AI security challenges of 2026.

Government organizations are targeted by attackers who know agencies cannot afford disruption to public services

US government agencies have until July 19 to patch two critical Fortinet vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented malware called GoSerpent that has been put to use in cyber attacks targeting entities in Southeast Asia since late 2025 with a focus on long-term access and intelligence gathering

CISA on Thursday ordered government agencies to prioritize patching two actively exploited vulnerabilities in the Fortinet FortiSandbox threat detection platform. [...]

National Risk Assessment Cites CrowdStrike Lessons Learned, Hybrid Warfare RisksThe British government's latest national security risk register sees a rising threat posed by cyberattacks disrupting operational technology in more critical national infrastructure sectors, and cites the CrowdStrike outage in "digital resilience failure" lessons to be learned.

More than 20 Brazilian government websites were hijacked and turned into malware delivery channels in an active PhantomEnigma campaign uncovered by ANY.RUN, a leading provider of interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence solutions

Chinese actors used Claude Code and DeepSeek to automate attacks that breached government systems and targeted financial firms. Hunt.io researchers stumbled onto an active intrusion campaign in June 2026 while pivoting on known TencShell command-and-control infrastructure. A single HTTP header fingerprint on port 1111 led them to 13 Hong Kong-based servers and, on one of […]

The US government's restrictions on Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models have intensified calls in the UK and other countries to reduce their reliance on US tech companies, with significant cyber implications.

The UK government is warning of the potential impact of catastrophic cyber-attacks

Initiative seeks to prevent duplicate vulnerability scanning and remediation efforts.The Trump administration has launched Gold Eagle, a federal AI cybersecurity clearinghouse that coordinates AI-discovered software vulnerabilities through Carnegie Mellon University's VINCE platform to speed validation, disclosure and remediation while reducing duplicate efforts across government and industry.

US Government Is Working on CBOMs But Discovery and Inventories Are a Local ProblemTrump's executive order could give the world a common language for cryptographic inventories, but practitioners say the hardest work won't come from Washington. Even if organizations adopt a shared CBOM schema, each enterprise must still tackle the costly task of discovering cryptographic assets.

The EU, its members and the U.K. took action against Russian government officials and others while attributing the winter cyberattacks against Poland’s energy grid to the FSB. The post Europe strikes out against Russia’s Turla over espionage, ‘destructive attacks’ appeared first on CyberScoop.

State-sponsored attackers are targeting critical infrastructure networks in defense, communications, energy, finance, government and health care. The post Officials once again warn defenders that Russian hackers are targeting network devices appeared first on CyberScoop.

Also: Oracle Suit Points to AI Revenue Forecasting Risk; the AI Sovereignty PushIn this week's panel, four editors discussed the growing role of artificial intelligence in U.S. federal government cybersecurity, Oracle's investor lawsuit over its projected cloud sales to frontier AI lab OpenAI and what AI sovereignty means for enterprises.

Peter Justen of AmeriTrust on How Data Integrity Affects Benefits AdministrationArtificial intelligence is transforming healthcare and government benefits administration, but organizations must strengthen data quality and operational processes before expecting meaningful results, said Peter Justen, founder and CEO at AmeriTrust Solutions.

A Bulgarian national has been charged with stealing $290,000 in government-seized cryptocurrency while serving 121 months in prison for helping launder millions stolen from American fraud victims. [...]

Also, 23andMe Breach Settlement, GitHub AI Flaw, Ubiquiti Patches Critical BugsThis week, hidden breaches, researchers exposed a GitHub AI agent flaw, an Ubiquiti critical flaw, a ColdFusion flaw, a growing Chinese ORB, U.K. government FortiBleed exposure, 23andMe victims get $46.75 million, 3.8 million affected by Medtronic breach and Cerner's 2025 victim count went up.

Operation First Light 2026, coordinated by Interpol and funded by the Chinese government, has led to 5,811 arrests

Agencies and Industry Coordinate Post-Quantum Migration PlansThe White House convened government officials, quantum companies and researchers to accelerate the transition to post-quantum cryptography, align public-private investments and reinforce a 2030 deadline as advances in quantum computing increase risks to today's encryption.