Activists Leak DHS Contract Records

GPS jamming hits the Strait of Hormuz. An Iran linked threat actor uses AI to target Iraqi government officials. Hacktivists leak thousands of DHS contract records. A Hawaii cancer center suffers a data breach. Google patches over a hundred Android vulnerabilities. A new report tallies the scale of third party breaches. An MS-Agent AI framework flaw allows full system compromise. On today's Threat Vector segment, Evan Gordenker, Director of AI Security and DPRK Operations at Unit 42, joins David Moulton to unpack North Korea’s hiring scams. Tire tech turns tattletale. 

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North Korea has turned your hiring pipeline into a revenue machine. And most organizations have no idea. Evan Gordenker, Director of AI Security and DPRK Operations at Unit 42, joins David Moulton on today’s Threat Vector segment to unpack how this operation actually works. Listen to their full conversation to get more detail and catch new episodes of Threat Vector every Thursday on your favorite podcast app.

Selected Reading

Attacks on GPS Spike Amid US and Israeli War on Iran (WIRED)

Amazon: Drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in Middle East (Bleeping Computer)

Iranian Cyber Threat Actor Targets Iraqi Government Officials in AI-Powered Campaign (Infosecurity Magazine)

Hacktivists claim to have hacked Homeland Security to release ICE contract data (TechCrunch)

UH Cancer Center data breach affects nearly 1.2 million people (Bleeping Computer)

Android gets patches for Qualcomm zero-day exploited in attacks (Bleeping Computer)

Chrome Gemini panel became privilege escalator for rogue extensions (The Register)

Huge “Shadow Layer” of Organizations Hit by Supply Chain Attacks (Infosecurity Magazine)

Vulnerability in MS-Agent AI Framework Can Allow Full System Compromise (SecurityWeek)

Researchers Uncover Method to Track Cars via Tire Sensors (SecurityWeek)

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