CyberWire Daily

Big tech, bigger fines.

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Sep 8, 2025
Todd Moore, Global Vice President of Data Security at Thales, shares insights on the growing threat of insider risks in data security. He highlights how vulnerabilities can arise from trusted personnel, emphasizing the importance of governance and compliance. The conversation also touches on the recent $3.5 billion fine against Google for adtech abuses and security breaches impacting major companies like Salesforce and Cloudflare. Moore discusses key strategies organizations can adopt to strengthen their data protection measures amid rising cyber threats.
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INSIGHT

EU Punishes Adtech Self-Preferencing

  • The EU fined Google $3.5 billion for self-preferencing and anticompetitive adtech practices.
  • Google disputes the ruling and will appeal, calling it harmful to European businesses.
INSIGHT

Record-Breaking DDoS Mitigated

  • Cloudflare blocked an unprecedented DDoS peaking at 11.5 Tbps and 51 billion pps.
  • The attack was short-lived and Cloudflare dropped malicious traffic at the edge without outage.
ANECDOTE

GitHub Access Laid Groundwork For Breach

  • SalesLoft's GitHub was accessed between March and June, which set up the August Salesforce breach.
  • Attackers used compromised Drift OAuth tokens to siphon data from Salesforce environments.
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