Cybersecurity

The Wall Street Journal reports that Aflac is investigating a breach that may have exposed claims information, health details, Social Security numbers, and other personal data.

I had the honor of hosting the first episode of the Xposure Podcast live from Xposure Summit 2025. And I couldn’t have asked for a better kickoff panel: three cybersecurity leaders who don’t just talk security, they live it.
Let me introduce them.
Alex Delay, CISO at IDB Bank, knows what it means to defend a highly regulated environment. Ben Mead, Director of Cybersecurity at Avidity

Misconfigured Docker instances are the target of a campaign that employs the Tor anonymity network to stealthily mine cryptocurrency in susceptible environments.
“Attackers are exploiting misconfigured Docker APIs to gain access to containerized environments, then using Tor to mask their activities while deploying crypto miners,” Trend Micro researchers Sunil Bharti and Shubham Singh said in an

The U.S. House of Representatives has formally banned congressional staff members from using WhatsApp on government-issued devices, citing security concerns.
The development was first reported by Axios.
The decision, according to the House Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), was motivated by worries about the app’s security.
“The Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high-risk to users

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new cyber attack campaign by the Russia-linked APT28 (aka UAC-0001) threat actors using Signal chat messages to deliver two new malware families dubbed BEARDSHELL and COVENANT.
BEARDSHELL, per CERT-UA, is written in C++ and offers the ability to download and execute PowerShell scripts, as well as upload the results of the

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued an advisory warning of cyber attacks mounted by the China-linked Salt Typhoon actors to breach major global telecommunications providers as part of a cyber espionage campaign.
The attackers exploited a critical Cisco IOS XE software (CVE-2023-20198, CVSS score: 10.0) to access configuration

When Marks & Spencer paused online orders after it was hit by ransomware, it was bad news for them… but GOOD news for other big online retailers.

Fashion rivals like Next, John Lewis, and Zara saw a nice little bump while M&S sales floundered.

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new jailbreaking method called Echo Chamber that could be leveraged to trick popular large language models (LLMs) into generating undesirable responses, irrespective of the safeguards put in place.
“Unlike traditional jailbreaks that rely on adversarial phrasing or character obfuscation, Echo Chamber weaponizes indirect references, semantic

The United States government has warned of cyber attacks mounted by pro-Iranian groups after it launched airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites as part of the Iran–Israel war that commenced on June 13, 2025.
Stating that the ongoing conflict has created a “heightened threat environment” in the country, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a bulletin that cyber actors are likely to

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a Go-based malware called XDigo that has been used in attacks targeting Eastern European governmental entities in March 2025.
The attack chains are said to have leveraged a collection of Windows shortcut (LNK) files as part of a multi-stage procedure to deploy the malware, French cybersecurity company HarfangLab said.
XDSpy is the name assigned to a cyber