Officials in St. Paul, Minnesota declare a state of emergency following a cyberattack. Hackers disrupt a major French telecom. A power outage causes widespread service disruptions for cloud provider Linode. Researchers reveal a critical authentication bypass flaw in an AI-driven app development platform. A new study shows AI training data is chock full of PII. Fallout continues for the Tea dating safety app. Hackers are actively exploiting a critical SAP NetWeaver vulnerability to deploy malware. CISA and the FBI update their Scattered Spider advisory. A Florida prison exposes personal information of visitors to all of its inmates. Our guest today is Keith Mularski, Chief Global Ambassador at Qintel, retired FBI Special Agent, and co-host of Only Malware in the Building. CISA and Senator Wyden come to terms —mostly— over the long-buried US Telecommunications Insecurity Report.

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CyberWire Guest

Our guest today is Keith Mularski, Chief Global Ambassador at Qintel, retired FBI Special Agent, and co-host of Only Malware in the Building discussing what it's like to be the new host on the N2K CyberWire network and giving a glimpse into some upcoming episodes. You can catch Keith and his co-hosts Selena Larson, Staff Threat Researcher and Lead, Intelligence Analysis and Strategy at Proofpoint, and our own Dave Bittner the first Tuesday of each month on your favorite podcast app with new episodes of Only Malware.

Selected Reading

Major cyberattack hits St. Paul, shuts down many services (Star Tribune)

French telecom giant Orange discloses cyberattack (Bleeping Computer)

Power Outage at Newark Data Center Disrupts Linode, Took LWN Offline (FOSS Force)

Critical authentication bypass flaw reported in AI coding platform Base44 (Beyond Machines)

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data (MIT Technology Review)

Dating safety app Tea suspends messaging after hack (BBC)

Hackers exploit SAP NetWeaver bug to deploy Linux Auto-Color malware (Bleeping Computer)

CISA and FBI Release Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of the Scattered Spider Hacker Group (gb hackers)

Florida prison data breach exposes visitors' contact information to inmates (Florida Phoenix)

CISA to release long-buried US telco security report (The Register)

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