Establishing a Cyber Force and Addressing Emerging Cyber Threats

The Senate confirms a new national cyber director. A new commission explores the establishment of a separate Cyber Force. Cybercriminals exploit link wrapping to launch sophisticated phishing attacks. AI agents are hijacked, cameras cracked, and devs phished. Gene sequencers and period trackers settle allegations of oversharing personal data and inadequate security. Today we are joined by Tim Starks from CyberScoop discussing how China accuses the US of exploiting Microsoft zero-day in a cyberattack. OpenAI scrambles after a chat leak fiasco.

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CyberWire Guest

Today we are joined by Tim Starks from CyberScoop discussing how China accuses the US of exploiting Microsoft zero-day in a cyberattack.

Selected Reading

Sean Cairncross confirmed as national cyber director (The Record)

Panel to create roadmap for establishing US Cyber Force (The Record)

Microsoft 365: Attackers Weaponize Proofpoint and Intermedia Link Wrapping to Steal Logins (WinBuzzer)

When Public Prompts Turn Into Local Shells: ‘CurXecute’ – RCE in Cursor via MCP Auto‑Start (Aim Security)

LegalPwn Attack Tricks GenAI Tools Into Misclassifying Malware as Safe Code (Hackread)

Bitdefender Warns Users to Update Dahua Cameras Over Critical Flaws (Hackread)

Mozilla warns of phishing attacks targeting add-on developers (Bleeping Computer)

Gene Sequencing Giant Illumina Settles for $9.8M Over Product Vulnerabilities (SecurityWeek)

Flo settles class action lawsuit alleging improper data sharing (The Record)

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results (Ars Technica)

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