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Russian and Armenian Operators Tied to Logistics-Focused 'Diesel Vortex' Group
Cybersecurity investigators have identified, unmasked and disrupted a months-long organized criminal effort that developed a phishing-as-a-service designed to target Western users of popular logistics platforms, facilitating multiple types of fraud and displaying operators' deep industry knowledge.

Attack Spotlights Threats, Risks Facing Healthcare Supply Chain
UFP Technologies, a Massachusetts-based maker of single-use medical devices and other healthcare supplies, has notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of a cyber incident discovered on Valentine's Day that involved the theft or destruction of company data.

Officials Warn Funding Cuts, Fragmented Intelligence Sharing Slow Threat Response
State and local officials told lawmakers that funding cuts, fragmented intelligence pipelines and unresolved interoperability gaps are undermining cyber and critical infrastructure protections as the country prepares for the 2026 World Cup and a series of high-profile global events.

Council of the EU Rejects Redefinition of 'Personal Data'
A rejection by European Union member governments of proposal backed by the European Commission to make it easier to share data about individuals won cautious plaudits from Paul Nemitz, a key architect of Europe's General Data Protection Regulation.

Power Capacity Is Growing But 26% of Projects Faced Delays, Experts Warn
For years, enterprise cloud computing has felt like a "sky's the limit" endeavor, but that aspiration is coming crashing to the ground as the industry faces a hard new reality. Growth is being constrained by the very real physical limitations of the world's power grids.

Index Ventures Backs End-to-End Platform, Targeting of AI-Driven Vulnerability Risk
Astelia raised $35 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures to scale its AI-powered exposure management tool. The company uses AI agents and network analysis to help enterprises prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities and reduce remediation noise across hybrid and on-premises environments.

Why Governance, Access Control and Vendor Oversight Now Define Patient Safety
Healthcare breaches do not start with a single technical failure. Digital risk has become clinical risk, driven by weak governance, excess access and unmanaged vendors. Resilience now depends on governance, not more tooling.

DeepSeek, MoonShot AI, MiniMax Used 24,000 Fake Accounts in Campaign
Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI firms of running coordinated, large-scale operations to steal capabilities from its Claude models. The U.S.-based company said DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax are conducting "industrial-scale campaigns" using tens of thousands of fraudulent accounts.

Maturity Improves as Organizations Navigate Cost Pressure, Business Expectations
Enterprise observability has shifted from experimental tooling to critical infrastructure, with 60% of organizations now at mature levels. But cost surprises, business expectations and gaps in business-impact reporting threaten value realization as leaders push for measurable business outcomes.

Gen AI Nears 98% Adoption as OTel Gains Ground in Production
From automated correlation to agentic AI that investigates and remediates incidents, observability is entering a new phase. With generative AI adoption accelerating and OpenTelemetry gaining production ground, integrated intelligence is becoming table stakes.

Report: Lazarus Group Pivoting to Medusa Ransomware for Extortion Attacks
North Korean-state backed Lazarus Group hackers are using Medusa ransomware in extortion attacks on U.S. healthcare entities despite a 2024 U.S. indictment of Rim Jong Hyok, an alleged member of the Lazarus subgroup Stonefly, according to a new threat intelligence report.

How Claude's New AI Code Scanning Tool Will Challenge Application Security Leaders
Anthropic's debut of Claude Code Security jolted cybersecurity stocks and intensified competition in application security testing. It promises deep reasoning around identifying and remediating code vulnerabilities but faces steep challenges matching the feature breadth required by large enterprises.

What often appears to be turf wars between healthcare technology management, facilities OT staff, IT departments and security teams are often the result of unclear ownership and accountability for device security. And that presents safety risks to patients, says Mohammed Waqas, CTO of Armis.

Cisco: One Prompt May Not Break Most AI Models, But a Conversation Will
Cisco tested eight major open-weight artificial intelligence models and found multi-turn jailbreak attacks succeeded nearly 93% of the time, exposing a blind spot in how enterprises assess and deploy large language models safety.

Fintech Giant Says Personal Data Exposed for About 100 Business Users of Loan App
Financial services firm PayPal said it discovered a data breach that lasted for six months, exposed some business customers' personal information and led to fraudulent charges. The company said about 100 customers were affected, and that it has fully refunded them for fraudulent charges.

Shared Network Intelligence Adds Ecosystem Visibility to AI Models
Fraudsters collaborate, but most banks still detect fraud alone. This imbalance has defined fraud prevention for years. Now CISOs and fraud practitioners are rethinking their approach using network intelligence signals. Network intelligence shifts the lens by focusing on relationships across banks.