The botnet browser blues.

International law enforcement disrupts the SocGholish botnet. The UK’s cyber chief says cybersecurity is a contest, not a risk register. Ukraine joins the EU’s cyber reserve. The Gentlemen gang sharpens its ransomware toolkit. A WordPress supply chain attack spreads malware. Critical patches land from F5, Atlassian, and Splunk. Agentjacking targets AI coding assistants. And Kodak confirms a breach claimed by ShinyHunters. Our guest is Ben Yelin from University of Maryland Center for Cyber Health and Hazard Strategies on the failure of FISA section 702 to reauthorize. Criminal coders face automation anxiety.

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CyberWire Guest

Today we are joined by Ben Yelin from University of Maryland Center for Cyber Health and Hazard Strategies, and coh-host of Caveat, as he discusses the failure of FISA section 702 to reauthorize.

Selected Reading

Police cleans nearly 15,000 SocGholish-infected sites tied to Evil Corp (Bleeping Computer)

Hostile States Behind 75% of Cyber-Attacks on UK CNI, NCSC Warns (Infosecurity Magazine)

Cyberspace Locked in a Nation-State Contest, Says NCSC CEO (BankInfo Security)

EU grants Ukraine access to cybersecurity reserve for major attacks (The Record)

Killing me gently: Inside Gentlemen’s EDR killer framework (ESET)

ShapedPlugin update flow hacked to infect WordPress sites (Bleeping Computer)

F5 issues out-of-band patches for critical NGINX vulnerabilities (Bleeping Computer)

Atlassian, Splunk Patch Critical Vulnerabilities (SecurityWeek)

Agentjacking: Researchers Show How One Fake Bug Report Can Hijack AI Coding Agents (HackRead)

Kodak Admits Data Breach After ShinyHunters Hack Claims (SecurityWeek)

Cybercriminals Are Worried About AI Taking Their Jobs Too (Infosecurity Magazine)

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