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**Cybersecurity Headlines**

Daily stories from the world of information security. To delve into any daily story, head to CISOseries.com.

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Aruba password warning, SharePoint zero day, Russian vodka maker attacked Jul 21, 2025

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Hewlett Packard warns of hardcoded passwords in Aruba access points

SharePoint zero-day exploited via RCE, no patch available

Russian vodka producer suffers ransomware attack

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Week in Review: Pentagon's Chinese Engineers, Gemini's email phish, 20-year-old railroad flaw persists Jul 18, 2025

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This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest Cyrus Tibbs, CISO, PennyMac

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Taiwan semiconductor sector hacked, Salt Typhoon breaches National Guard, Congress ponders Stuxnet Jul 18, 2025

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Chinese hackers use Cobalt Strike on Taiwan's semiconductor sector

Salt Typhoon breaches National Guard and steals network configurations

Congress considers Stuxnet to manage OT threats

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Google's AI tool finds bugs, Europol disrupts hacktivist group, SquidLoader targets Hong Kong Jul 17, 2025

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Google says 'Big Sleep' AI tool found bug hackers planned to use Google fixes actively exploited sandbox escape zero day in Chrome China's cyber sector amplifies Beijing's hacking of U.S. targets

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Chinese engineers at Pentagon, HazyBeacon malware, MITRE framework: AADAPT Jul 16, 2025

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Pentagon welcomes Chinese engineers into its environment

HazyBeacon: It's not a beer, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste

What the world needs now is another framework

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EU age verification, train brakes vulnerability, Grok-4 jailbroken Jul 15, 2025

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EU states to test age verification app

(Reuters)

AAR pledges to start fixing 20-year old vulnerability next year

(Security Week)

Grok-4 jailbroken in two days

(Infosecurity Magazine)

DoD awards contracts for agentic AI

(Reuters)

eSIM vulnerability exposes billions of IoT devices

(Infosecurity Magazine)

UK launches Vulnerability Research Initiative

(Bleeping Computer)

Interlock ransomware using FileFix for malware

(Bleeping Computer)

Disinformation groups spoofs European journalists

(The Record)

Elmo gets hacked

(AP News)

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CitrixBleed2 urgent fix, Gemini email flaw, Louis Vuitton cyberattack Jul 14, 2025

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CISA gives one day for Citrix Bleed 2 fix

Google Gemini flaw hijacks email summaries for phishing

Louis Vuitton says UK customer data stolen in cyber-attack

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Week in Review: ChatGPT URL vulnerability, McDonald's password problem, Perfekt Bluetooth blunder Jul 11, 2025

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This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest Jim Bowie, vp, CISO, Tampa General Hospital

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Outlook outage continues, Iranian APT activity, Russian ransomware arrest Jul 11, 2025

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Look Out! Another Outlook Outage

Iranian APTs increased activity against U.S. industries in late spring

Russian basketball player arrested in France over alleged ransomware ties

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AMD has CPU meltdown, Mozilla Thunderbird has vulnerabilities, Indian defense sector attacked Jul 10, 2025

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AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs

Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird could allow for arbitrary code execution

Bitcoin Depot breach exposes data of nearly 27,000 crypto users, More than $40 million stolen from GMX crypto platform

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But more than 9,000 companies have continuous visibility into their controls with Vanta. Vanta brings automation to evidence collection across over 35 frameworks, like SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

They also centralize key workflows like policies, access reviews, and reporting, and helps you get security questionnaires done 5 times faster with AI. Now that's…a new way to GRC.

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