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White House Kick Off School Year With AI Education Efforts, Public-Private Collabs
The Trump administration is rolling out its Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge with a series of high-profile White House events and public-private sector commitments - just as the Federal Trade Commission reportedly prepares to investigate AI systems' impact on child mental health.

Series E Funding at $2B Valuation Fuels Fraud Defense, Identity Tech Buildout
Washington D.C.-area identity verification provider ID.me has raised $340 million to develop fraud-fighting technology and prepare for long-term expansion. The investment supports product innovation to stop AI threats such as deepfakes and fake businesses.

Also, Disney Pays $10M to Settle Child Privacy Case, Spain Scraps Huawei Deal
This week, Jaguar hack, Disney settled a child privacy case, Texas sued PowerSchool and federal prosecutors sued a toy maker. Spain voided a Huawei contract, Pennsylvania AG confirmed a ransomware attack. U.S. immigration enforcement resumed a spyware contract and Baltimore lost $1.5 million to BEC.

Startup to Expand Dual-Use Tech, Tackle GPS Jamming Threats With Series C Funding
With a $75 million Series C raise, Shift5 plans to scale its operational intelligence platform across military and commercial transportation. Its focus includes enhanced threat detection, predictive maintenance and data-driven safety measures amid rising cyberthreats to infrastructure.

Feds Ramp Up Enforcement of 21st Cures Act Regs Including Fines up to $1 Million
The Department of Health and Human Services says it's "cracking down" on healthcare providers, health IT developers and health information networks that "block" the exchange, access and use of patients' electronic health data. Info blocking regulations have been on the books for years, so why now?

ACI Worldwide's Cleber Martins on Why Banks Need to Lead on AI Identity Governance
The rise of agentic commerce is forcing the financial sector to reconsider traditional fraud controls. Automated transactions may follow all technical authorizations, but agentic AI tools lack an understanding of user intent. That disconnect could lead to a surge in first-party fraud.

Elevate OT Cyber Skills Through Training, Collaboration and Practice
Operational technology incidents can have physical as well as digital consequences, from halting plant production to endangering lives. Training tailored to OT security is essential for protecting critical systems while maintaining operational continuity.

Structured Approach to Mitigate Vulnerabilities and Risks in Synthetic Biology Labs
Advances in synthetic biology promise breakthroughs, such as engineered bacteria and microbes for pollution cleanup and medicine production. But this promise brings new risks: cyberthreats that intersect with biosecurity. Threat modeling provides a critical framework to anticipate these risks.

Claude Creators Ride Wave of AI Momentum With Updated Valuation
Anthropic raised $13 billion in fresh capital, bringing its post-money valuation to $183 billion. A Series F round was co-led by Iconiq, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from a slew of institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds.

Intel Chief Tulsi Gabbard Will Ax a Cyberthreat Sharing Hub, Citing Redundancy
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the decision to eliminate the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center was meant to remove redundancies and save taxpayer money, though analysts warn the move could leave a major gap in federal threat information sharing.

The EU General Court Gives Victory to Backers of Trans-Atlantic Data Flows
The European Union General Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by a French politician to annul the legal framework underpinning commercial data flows across the Atlantic, rejecting claims that a U.S. intelligence agency oversight body is not independent of the federal government.

Ransomware Gang Nova Poised to Leak Patient Data, Lab Stays Mum on Negotiations
With ransomware gang Nova threatening to leak patient data on the darkweb, a Dutch laboratory that performs cervical cancer tests for a government screening program is mum about the ransom negotiations, but it says the cyberattack in July has affected 941,000 patients.

Researcher: Internal Data Belonging to World’s Largest Lender Exposed on AWS
Navy Federal, the world’s largest credit union, left hundreds of gigabytes of internal backup files exposed on Amazon’s cloud storage service, says cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler. Exposed data included email addresses, hashed passwords and what appeared to be internal system data.

Acquisition Targets Business Email Compromise, Impersonation and Spear-Phishing
Varonis has acquired SlashNext to strengthen detection of phishing and social engineering attacks. The integration will help prevent identity compromises via email, SMS and collaboration tools while enhancing Miami-based Varonis’ AI-driven data protection.

Orthopedic Group, Medical Imaging Centers, Home Healthcare Provider Report Breaches
Specialty healthcare providers know what they're about when it comes to an irregular heartbeat or a wheezing lung. Cybersecurity, not so much. Hacks on specialty medical entities easily result in tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of patient records being compromised.

Gap in Microsoft Blocklist Exploited, ValleyRAT Runs Undetected
A Chinese nation-state cyber group is exploiting a Microsoft-signed driver to shut down Windows security protections. The attackers deployed the driver through a custom loader. The core weakness that Silver Fox relied on remained exploitable even after patching.

'Widespread Data Theft Campaign' Compromised Many Drift OAuth Tokens, Warn Experts
Threat researchers report that "a widespread data theft campaign" traces to attackers stealing OAuth access tokens for applications integrated with Salesloft's AI chatbot Drift, then exfiltrating data. Victims include Salesforce customers Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks.

Cyber Extortion Campaign Automated Efforts to 'Unprecedented' Degree, Says AI Giant
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic said it's disrupted a cybercrime operation that tapped its large language models, including Claude Code, to an "unprecedented" extent to help automate a data theft and extortion campaign that targeted more than a dozen critical infrastructure organizations.