Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review: Jaguar Land Rover attack, indirect prompt injections, card farms in NYC
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Sep 26, 2025 This week, Brett Conlon, CISO at American Century Investments, and TC Niedzialkowski, Head of Security & IT at Opendoor, delve into the recent Jaguar Land Rover ransomware attack and its implications for legacy systems. They discuss the risks associated with consolidation in industries and the ethical concerns surrounding AI prompt injections and CAPTCHA vulnerabilities. The duo also explores the alarming rise of SIM card farms and their potential for coordinated cyber threats, shedding light on the industry's evolving security landscape.
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Consolidation Creates Systemic Single Points
- Consolidation of core systems can create single points of failure across factories and airports.
- Brett Conlon warns digitization is outpacing security maturity, increasing systemic risk.
Require Red Teaming For Consolidated Systems
- Lobby for interoperability standards and require red teaming before deploying consolidated platforms.
- Demand stronger security assessments when systems will store sensitive biometric data.
Legacy Systems Amplify Outage Risk
- Many critical systems run legacy software that attackers still exploit.
- TC Niedzialkowski highlights that decades-old ransomware could have been detected by Defender signatures.