Executive Award Phishing Delivers InfoStealer

The DOJ shuts down another scam center in Myanmar. OpenAI confirms a Mixpanel data breach. A new phishing campaign targets company executives. A bipartisan bill looks to preserve the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. Universities suffer Oracle EBS data breaches. India reports GPS jamming at eight major airports. Kaiser Permanente settles a class action suit over tracking pixels. The FTC plans to require a cloud provider to delete unnecessary student data. An international initiative is developing guidelines for commercial spyware. Our N2K Producer Liz Stokes speaks with Kristiina Omri, Director of Special Programs for CybExer Technologies about the cyber ranges for NATO and ESA. Iranian hackers give malware a retro reboot. 

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Today, we bring you a conversation our N2K Producer Liz Stokes and Kristiina Omri, Director of Special Programs for CybExer Technologies, had during Liz’s  visit to Tallinn, Estonia about the cyber ranges for NATO and ESA.

We are pleased to share that our N2K colleagues Liz Stokes and Maria Varmazis were in Tallinn, Estonia this week for the NATO Cyber Coalition 2025 Cyber Range Exercise. Their visit marks the CyberWire as the only United States podcasters invited to attend. We’ll be sharing interviews and insights from the event, starting today with our producer Liz Stokes’ conversation with  Kristiina Omri, Director of Special Programs for CybExer Technologies.

Selected Reading
DOJ takes down Myanmar scam center website spoofing TickMill trading platform (The Record)

OpenAI Confirms Mixpanel Data Breach—Was Your Data Stolen? (KnowTechie)

New “Executive Award” Scam Exploits ClickFix to Deliver Stealerium Malware (GB Hackers)

Hassan and Cornyn bring in bipartisan bill to keep state and local cyber grant program alive (Industrial Cyber)

Penn and Phoenix Universities Disclose Data Breach After Oracle Hack (SecurityWeek)

Indian government reveals GPS spoofing at eight major airports (The Register)

Kaiser Permanente to Pay Up to $47.5M in Web Tracker Lawsuit (BankInfo Security)

FTC settlement requires Illuminate to delete unnecessary student data (Bleeping Computer)

Pall Mall Process to Define Responsible Commercial Cyber Intrusion (Infosecurity Magazine)

Iran Hackers Take Inspiration From Snake Video Game (GovInfo Security)

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