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Cybersecurity directives mandating passenger and freight railroad carriers to bolster the cybersecurity infrastructure amid increasingly prevalent threats against the sector have been updated and renewed by the Transportation Security Administration for another year, reports WWLP-22News.

Officials across 50 countries part of the International Counter Ransomware Initiative have been touted by Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technologies Anne Neuberger to present numerous initiatives aimed at strengthening cyber threat information sharing around the world, as well as combating malicious cryptocurrency activity and ransomware payments at next week's U.S.-hosted meeting, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Significant stealth capabilities have been exhibited by threat actors behind the Operation Triangulation campaign, which emerged in June and involved the exploitation of Apple iOS zero-day vulnerabilities to facilitate the deployment of the TriangleDB backdoor for data exfiltration, has been discovered to exhibit significant stealth capabilities, The Hacker News reports.

Five Ontario, Canada-based hospitals had their operations disrupted following a cyberattack against their shared service provider TransForm, which was co-founded by the impacted health providers for IT and supply chain management, reports BleepingComputer.

Reuters reports that major U.S. biotechnology and genetic testing firm 23andMe has begun notifying its customers regarding a breach involving its "DNA Relatives" feature, which enabled data sharing for users around the world, after millions of data stolen from the company were exposed by a threat actor.

Generative artificial intelligence-based phishing attacks have nearly reached parity with human-enabled intrusions, according to SiliconAngle.

CyberScoop reports that malicious cyber operations associated with the Israel-Hamas conflict, including an unverified cyberattack against Israel's Nevatim Air Force Base that was claimed by a pro-Palestinian group to have resulted in data compromise, have increased in prevalence over the past two weeks, with experts warning that more significant attacks could emerge.

Attacks with the Smokeloader malware targeted at Ukrainian government and financial organizations, particularly accounting departments, have been on the rise since May, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Numerous industrial and government entities across Russia have been subjected to cyberattacks with an information-stealing backdoor since June, with the still-unknown threat actors deploying an updated version of the malware in mid-August, according to BleepingComputer.

The three companies claim no sensitive customer data was lost despite being targeted after breach of identity and access management firm.