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Verizon hit by a major wireless outage. Poland blocks an attack on its power grid. A massive database of French citizens exposed. Microsoft shuts down a cybercrime-as-a-service operation. The UK backs away from digital ID plans. California probes Grok deepfakes. The FTC settles with GM over location data. Palo Alto Networks patches a serious firewall flaw. Plus, John Serafini of HawkEye on modern signals intelligence, and federal agents seize devices from a Washington Post reporter.

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CyberWire Guest

Today Maria Varmazis sits down with John Serafini, Founder and CEO of Hawkeye 360, on T-Minus to discuss commercial signals intelligence, advanced RF signal processing, and Hawkeye 360’s recent acquisition of Innovative Signal Analysis alongside its Series E funding. To hear the full conversation, check out the episode on T-Minus.

Selected Reading

Verizon Says Service Restored After Thousands Affected by Outage (Bloomberg)

Poland says it repelled major cyberattack on power grid, blames Russia (The Record)

Massive breach leaks 45 million French records: demographic, healthcare, and financial data all leaked, here's what we know (TechRadar)

Criminal Subscription Service Behind AI-Powered Cyber-Attacks Taken Out By Microsoft (Infosecurity Magazine)

Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK (BBC News)

Attorney General Bonta Launches Investigation into xAI, Grok Over Undressed, Sexual AI Images of Women and Children | State of California (Department of Justice)

FTC bans GM from selling drivers' location data for five years (Bleeping Computer)

Palo Alto Networks warns of DoS bug letting hackers disable firewalls (Bleeping Computer)

FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home (Washington Post)

US cargo tech company publicly exposed its shipping systems and customer data to the web (TechCrunch)

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