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WhatsApp BANNED by House Security Goons — But Why?

Richi Jennings | June 24, 2025 | CAO, Chief Administrative Officer, House of Representatives, Jamie Crotts, Meta, Meta Platforms, SB Blogwatch, WhatsApp

New phone—who dis? Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) offers hazy reasoning ... Read More

DataKrypto and Tumeryk Join Forces to Deliver World’s First Secure Encrypted Guardrails for AI LLMs and SLMs

John D. Boyle | June 24, 2025 | AI, DataKrypto, encryption, GenAI, guardrails, LLMs, security, SLMs, Tumeryk

DataKrypto and Tumeryk join forces to deliver world’s first secure encrypted guardrails for AI LLMs and SLMs ... Read More

Heightened Cyber Threat from Iran Sparks Urgent Calls for Vigilance and Mitigation

George V. Hulme | June 23, 2025 | Cybersecurity, DHS, mitigation

Following last week’s U.S. airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear sites, cybersecurity experts and government officials are now warning of a possible digital retaliation, a surge in cyber threats originating from Iran. On June 22, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin warning of a “heightened ... Read More

Simbian Advances the AI Frontier With Industry’s First Benchmark for Measuring LLM Performance in the SOC

John D. Boyle | June 23, 2025 | AI, Artificle Unintelligence Conference, Augmentation, benchmark, black hat, DEF CON, GenAI, LLM, performance, ROI, simbian, SOC Agent

Simbian’s approach offers a new blueprint for how to evaluate and evolve AI for real-world use, without losing sight of the human element. ... Read More

Okta Introduces Cross App Access to Secure AI Agents in Enterprise

Jon Swartz | June 23, 2025 | AI agent security, AI Governance, app-to-app interaction, MCP security challenges, Okta

Okta Inc. on Monday said it has created a new protocol to secure artificial intelligence (AI) agents to bring visibility, control and governance to agent-driven and app-to-app interactions. The Cross App Access platform is especially important as more AI tools use protocols like Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect their ... Read More

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WormGPT Variants Powered by Grok and Mixtral Have Emerged

Teri Robinson | June 23, 2025 | WormGPT

Cato CTRL has discovered previously unreported WormGPT variants, but with a twist — they are powered by xAI’s Grok and Mistral AI’s Mixtral.   ... Read More

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Scattered Spider Targets Aflac, Other Insurance Companies

Jeffrey Burt | June 22, 2025 | cyberattacks, Insurance Industry, Remote Access Trojan (RAT), scattered spider

The prolific Scattered Spider threat group, which recently targeted U.S. and UK retailers in a series of attacks, is now turning its attention to the insurance industry and appears to have landed a big victim in Aflac after compromising networks and systems of the Philadelphia Insurance and Erie Insurance companies ... Read More

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16 Billion Leaked Records May Not Be a New Breach, But They’re a Threat

Jeffrey Burt | June 22, 2025 | BEC attacks, credentials leak, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Phishing

Cybernews researchers reported that since the beginning of the year, they've detected 30 datasets containing 16 billion stolen credentials exposed on the internet, most of which had not been previously recorded and represent a massive trove of records that can be used in ransomware, phishing, BEC, and other attacks ... Read More

AWS Raises Expertise Bar for MSSP Partners

Michael Vizard | June 22, 2025 | AWS re:Inforce 2025, Customer Experience, cx, MMSP

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week revealed it has added new categories for describing offerings provided by partners offering managed services security providers (MSSP) as part of an effort to ensure a more consistent customer experience ... Read More