Weekly Cryptohack Roundup
—Grinex halts trading after $15m crypto hack
—KelpDAO hacker launders $80M ETH via cross-chain swaps
—Circle sued over delayed response to $280m Drift hack
—Armed robbers invade home of French family
—$3.5m Volo Protocol exploit
—Hyperbridge Hack Losses Jump to $2.5m
—Texas man gets 23 years for $20m crypto art scam
—eth.limo hijack thwarted
—Rhea finance exploit losses hit $18.4m
https://www.databreachtoday.com/cryptohack-roundup-us-sanctioned-grinex-hacked-a-31488

One year later: The Trump administration will have to look again to find someone to permanently lead the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency now that nominee Sean Plankey withdrew from consideration after a year of no action taken by the Senate. https://www.databreachtoday.com/trumps-top-cyber-nominee-withdraws-after-turbulent-process-a-31494

Weekly Data Breach Roundup
—US charges two Chinese nationals for managing scam compounds
—Attackers exploit flaws pre-disclosure
—Europol crackdown on DDoS-for-hire
—No Mythos for CISA, but yes for Mozilla
—France ID portal breach
—Israeli and Venezuelan critical infrastructure targeted
—More Russian hacking in Ukraine
—Apache flaw
—US ransomware negotiator aided BlackCat.
https://www.databreachtoday.com/breach-roundup-myanmar-scam-compound-managers-charged-a-31498

UK officials say Russian hacking has reached new levels of hostility. Nation-state hits tied to the "big 4" aggressors now comprise majority of serious incidents probed by the British government, intelligence officials said at this week's CyberUK conference in Glasgow.
https://www.databreachtoday.com/uk-russian-hacking-reaches-new-levels-hostility-a-31483

UK cyber spooks: 'Is your computer monitor spying on you?' … NCSC designs 'SilentGlass' gadget to locked down overlooked computer peripheral.
https://www.databreachtoday.com/uk-cyber-spooks-is-your-computer-monitor-spying-on-you-a-31489

How Iran has excelled at 'threat projection' using cyber: no one wants to test Tehran's actual ability to execute, says Yelisey Bohuslavskiy, in this deep-dive look at how cyber operations are being used in the conflict, and comparing/contrasting this with what we've seen before, including in the Russia-Ukraine War.
Watch our full discussion here: https://www.databreachtoday.com/how-iran-has-excelled-at-threat-projection-using-cyber-a-31451

Maximizing vulnerability management utility and returns from Mythos, or any other models big and small, is about the system, not the models. Think of it as an AI cybersecurity pipeline, says Ondrej Vlcek, CEO of Aisle. I sat down with him to hear super useful context on the bug-finding power of frontier models, as well as using faster, less expensive and sometimes just as accurate small language models.
https://www.databreachtoday.com/maximizing-mythos-returns-requires-ai-cybersecurity-pipeline-a-31452

Vercel traces customer data theft to breach of an agentic AI tool used by one of its employees. https://www.databreachtoday.com/vercel-traces-customer-data-theft-to-agentic-ai-tool-breach-a-31461

Scottish Scattered Spider hacker Tyler Buchanan pleads guilty in US federal court
https://www.databreachtoday.com/scattered-spider-hacker-pleads-guilty-in-us-federal-court-a-31459

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cge0grppe3po