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Election Day brings typical cyber threats, technical glitches, and misinformation. Hackers tamper with European refrigeration systems. OpenAI faces questions over years of security warnings. Nvidia reportedly restricts business with Chinese data center customers. Binance details a six-billion-dollar heist attributed to North Korea. Barracuda patches critical security flaws. Gartner predicts an engineering-heavy future for security operations. Canadians face charges for hacking U.S. universities. Our guest is Heather Ceylan, CISO at Box, discussing Enterprise AI in 2026: what security leaders learned — and what comes next. AI takes the pitch, misses the point.

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On today’s Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Heather Ceylan, CISO at Box, discussing Enterprise AI in 2026: what security leaders learned — and what comes next. If you enjoyed this conversation, be sure to check out the full conversation here.

Selected Reading

Ballot scanner malfunctions, flurry of federal legal actions test election officials on final day of voting (CyberScoop)

Voters deliver "AI earthquake," rebuking tech and billionaires (Axios)

Election office reports failed attempts to hack its online services (Nextgov)

Hackers Hijacked French Blood Plasma Freezers, Changing Temperature Settings From −30°C to 110°C (Cyber Security News)

Hackers Alter Refrigeration Settings, Forcing European Stores to Discard Food (Hackread)

OpenAI employees warned about operational security lapses for years, sources say (Reuters)

Nvidia tells data center operators to limit business from Chinese customers with new global restrictions, report claims — allegedly restricted to 49% of the total, ensuring 51% are non-Chinese outfits (Tom's Hardware)

Qualcomm signs major 5G infrastructure deal with SpaceX for Starlink Mobile network (Reuters)

Rigged Coding Assignment, Abused AI Tool Opened Path to $6 Billion Binance Heist (SecurityWeek)

North Korea Launches Missiles Toward the Sea as Pyongyang Protests Against US Claims on Binance Hack (SecurityWeek)

Barracuda warns of critical flaws allowing root access to devices (Bleeping Computer)

Gartner Predicts SOCs Will Have 50% More Engineers Than Analysts by 2028 (Bleeping Computer)

US charges two Canadians accused of hacking US universities (Bleeping Computer)

I Put a Bunch of AI Agents in Charge of a Fantasy Soccer Team. They’re Not Better Than Humans—Yet (WIRED)

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CISA scales back its Election Day role. Google takes down a massive Android TV botnet. The UK warns of AI-powered attacks on critical infrastructure. German lawmakers face potential spyware threats. An AI-enabled infostealer ranks its victims. Ivanti patches more exploited zero-days. NATO launches cyber war games in Estonia. A Harvard breach exposes data linked to 850,000 email addresses. Our guest is Alex Weinert, Chief Product Officer at Semperis, on protecting the identity fabric in the AI era. Democracy is calling. And texting.

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Today on our Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Alex Weinert, Chief Product Officer at Semperis, talking about protecting the identity fabric in the AI era. If you enjoyed this conversation be sure to check out the full interview here.

Selected Reading

CISA Retreats From Election Security Ahead of Midterms (The New York Times)

Tech Firms Dismantle Botnet That Turned 1.3M TV Boxes Into Proxies (Krebs On Security)

NCSC Chief Warns of Imminent AI Ransomware Threat to UK Critical Infrastructure (Infosecurity Magazine)

Germany says lawmakers' iPhones may have been hacked with spyware (TechCrunch)

Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims (WIRED)

Ivanti patches two more Connect Secure zero-days chained in attacks (Bleeping Computer)

NATO's Crossed Swords Exercise Brings AI Agents Into Cyber Operations Training (SecurityWeek)

Harvard University data breach exposed info of 851,000 accounts (Bleeping Computer)

My Journey to the Center of America’s Political Spam Text Hell (WIRED)

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The FBI blames North Korea for a record-breaking crypto heist. Hackers hijack air raid alerts in Ukraine and Russia. European supermarket freezers come under attack again. Aur0ra ransomware operators put AI agents to work. Android’s SMS of Death gets a proof-of-concept exploit. Malicious Claude Code extensions infiltrate Cursor’s marketplace. Google offers a quarter-million-dollar bug bounty. ChatGPT faces a wrongful death lawsuit. Monday business briefing. Our guest is Cynthia Kaiser, SVP of Halcyon’s Ransomware Research Center and former Deputy Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, sharing how the AI cybercrime economy is open for business and booming. The secure USB drive that wasn’t.

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Cynthia Kaiser, SVP of Halcyon’s Ransomware Research Center and former Deputy Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, shares how the AI cybercrime economy is open for business and booming.

Selected Reading

FBI Attributes Binance Heist to North Korea’s TraderTraitor (Infosecurity Magazine)

Ukraine's air raid alert system hacked, Russian system targeted hours later (Kyiv Independent)

News Cybercrime Recorded Future Second wave of suspected cyberattacks hits supermarket freezers across Europe (The Record)

AI used in Aur0ra ransomware testing and execution (SOPHOS)

New Android SMS of Death exploit can remotely crash unpatched phones (Bleeping Computer)

Malicious Claude Code Extension Served in Cursor Supply Chain Attack (SecurityWeek)

Google Introduces $250,000 Root-in-Cloud Bug Bounty Reward (SecurityWeek)

Parents of woman who died of seizure after ChatGPT misguidance sue OpenAI (The Guardian)

Upwind Security raises $400 million in Series C funding. (N2K Pro Business Briefing)

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case — AI-assisted follow-up finds a backdoor and hardcoded keys in other ‘secure’ USB products (Tom's Hardware)

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As space's infrastructure continues to grow, the question of space leadership will not center around who has the most satellites, but instead around who can leverage the greatest satellite capabilities.

Host Maria Varmazis met with Yasrine Ibnyahya, VP of  technology investments and partnerships at Viasat, to discuss Mobile Satellite Services Association (MSSA) Reference Architecture. Ibnyahya discusses how evolving architecture has continued to build on earlier work utilizing multiple waveform technologies, greater interoperability, and incorporating more satellite payloads.

Key Sources:

MSSA Reference Architecture 2.0

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Today we are joined by ⁠Subhajeet Singha⁠, Senior Security Researcher at ⁠Acronis⁠ Threat Research Unit, discussing their work on "Red Heron exploits Gitea n-day flaw in multinational campaign, exposing new Linux rootkit." A Chinese-speaking threat actor tracked as Red Heron exploited a critical Gitea remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2026-60004, within days of its public disclosure, compromising organizations across five countries and stealing source code, credentials, and sensitive infrastructure data.

The campaign involved deploying persistent backdoors and a newly identified Linux implant called JITTERLY, which contains an undocumented rootkit, SIXZUT, capable of hiding files, processes, and network connections while protecting the malware from removal. Acronis assesses with moderate confidence that Red Heron operates within a PRC-linked context, highlighting how quickly attackers can weaponize newly disclosed vulnerabilities and turn exposed development platforms into gateways for broader network compromise.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠Red Heron exploits Gitea n-day flaw in multinational campaign, exposing new Linux rootkit⁠

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