X marks the hack.

X-Twitter had multiple waves of outages yesterday. Signal’s president warns against agentic AI. A new lawsuit alleges DOGE bypassed critical security safeguards. Is the Five Eyes Alliance fraying? The Minja attack poisons ai memory through user interaction. Researchers report increased activity from the SideWinder APT group. A critical Veritas vulnerability enables remote code execution. A Kansas healthcare provider breach exposes 220,000 patients’ data. New York sues Allstate over data exposure in insurance websites. CISA warns of critical Ivanti and VeraCode vulnerabilities. FTC to refund $25.5 million to victims of tech support scams. On our Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Gerald Beuchelt, CISO at Acronis, who is discussing how threat research and intelligence matter to MSPs. The UK celebrates a record-breaking CyberFirst Girls Competition. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn.

CyberWire Guest On our Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Gerald Beuchelt, CISO at Acronis, who is discussing how threat research and intelligence matter to MSPs.

Selected Reading Hackers Take Credit for X Cyberattack (SecurityWeek) X users report login troubles as Dark Storm claims cyberattack (Malwarebytes) Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having 'profound' security and privacy issues (TechCrunch) Lawsuit Says DOGE Is Ignoring Key Social Security Data Rules (BankInfo Security) As Trump pivots to Russia, allies weigh sharing less intel with U.S. (NBC News) MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users (The Register) SideWinder APT Group Attacking Military & Government Entities With New Tools (Cyber Security News) Critical Veritas Vulnerability Let Attackers Execute Malicious Code (Cyber Security News) Kansas healthcare provider says more than 220,000 impacted by cyberattack (The Record) Allstate sued for exposing personal info in plaintext (The Register) CISA Urges All Organizations to Patch Exploited Critical Ivanti Vulnerabilities (Infosecurity Magazine) FTC will send $25.5 million to victims of tech support scams (Bleeping Computer) Record Number of Girls Compete in CyberFirst Contest (Infosecurity Magazine)

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