Teen Social-Engineering and Scattered Spider

A major ransomware attack disrupts airport operations across Europe. Congress is on the verge of letting major cyber legislation expire. A critical flaw nearly allowed total compromise of every Entra ID tenant. Automaker Stellantis confirms a data breach. Fortra patches a critical flaw in its GoAnywhere MFT software. Europol leads a major operation against online child sexual exploitation. Three of the cybersecurity industry’s biggest players opt out of MITRE’s 2025 ATT&CK Evaluations. A compromised Steam game drains a cancer patient’s donations. Business Breakdown. Andrzej Olchawa and Milenko Starcik from VisionSpace join Maria Varmazis, host of T-Minus Space on hacking satellites. How one kid got tangled in Scattered Spider’s web.

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Andrzej Olchawa and Milenko Starcik from VisionSpace are speaking with Maria Varmazis, host of T-Minus Space on hacking satellites.

Selected Reading

EU cyber agency says airport software held to ransom by criminals (BBC News)

Cyber threat information law hurtles toward expiration, with poor prospects for renewal (CyberScoop)

Microsoft Entra ID flaw allowed hijacking any company's tenant (Bleeping Computer)

Stellantis says a third-party vendor spilled customer data (The Register)

Fortra Patches Critical GoAnywhere MFT Vulnerability (SecurityWeek)

AI Forensics Help Europol Track 51 Children in Global Online Abuse Case (HackRead)

Cyber Threat Detection Vendors Pull Out of MITRE Evaluations Test (Infosecurity Magazine)

Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations (Bleeping Computer)

CrowdStrike and Check Point intend to acquire AI security firms. (N2K CyberWire Business Briefing) 

‘I Was a Weird Kid’: Jailhouse Confessions of a Teen Hacker (Bloomberg)

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