Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Also, Venezuela Cyberattack, Endesa Confirms Breach and Telegram IP LeakThis week, a software flaw caused the Verizon outage. U.S. cyberattack in Venezuela. ICE identities published online. BreachForums users leaked. Spanish energy provider Endesa data breach. Telegram privacy risk. A MuddyWater upgrade. Dutch man sentenced for hacking a maritime port. A ServiceNow patch.

Precision Agriculture Boost Yields but Opens Farmers to Cybersecurity RiskPrecision agriculture is transforming U.S. farming with sensors, drones and automation, boosting productivity yields. But growing digital dependence is also expanding the attack surface, exposing farms to ransomware, disruption and rising cybersecurity risk.

Also, Colt Services Outage Persists, Finland Charges Americans in Vastaamo HackThis week, Microsoft hit RaccoonO365, Colt Technology Services, Finland charged a U.S. citizen in Vastaamo hack. RevengeHotels hackers used AI, Meta can't overturn a privacy case verdict. Chinese hackers unleashed spear phishing emails. Prosper confirmed a data breach, as did Kering fashion houses.

Also: FamousSparrow Is Back, Snowflake Hacker Agrees to ExtraditionThis week, Signal update, FamousSparrow is back, suspected Snowflake hacker agreed to U.S. extradition, train tickets sales hack in Ukraine, a patched Chrome zero-day, phishing targets SEO pros, DrayTek router outage, South African chicken producer attacked, and bad npm packages.

Water is still safe to drink, it confirms American Water, which supplies over 14 million people in the US and numerous military bases, has stopped issuing bills and has taken its MyWater app offline while it investigates a hacking incident.…

UK GCHQ Director Calls Chinese Hacking a 'Top Priority'Chinese-backed espionage and cyber disruption pose a major threat to global critical infrastructure as Beijing races for global edge, British and U.S. cyber officials warned Tuesday. Responding to the scale and complexity of Chinese hacking is a top British priority.

Experts Speculate About Whether the Hack Involved the ScreenConnect Flaw ExploitPharmacies at U.S. military hospitals and clinics worldwide are among the entities affected by the cyberattack on Optum's Change Healthcare this week, which has forced the IT services company to take many of its applications offline. Change Healthcare disconnected its IT systems on Wednesday.

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the disruption of the Russian RSocks malware botnet used to hijack millions of computers, Android smartphones, and IoT (Internet of Things) devices worldwide for use as proxy servers. [...]