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Marlinks latest Security Operations Centre report reveals a significant escalation in cyber threats targeting maritime operations, with attackers increasingly leveraging generative AI and organized cybercrime structures, according to Ship Technology.

The Register reports that former White House cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel warns that while nation-state threats like China remain significant, everyday cybercrime poses an even greater risk to U.S. businesses and infrastructure.

A former top U.S. cybersecurity official is urging South Korea to strengthen cyber defense collaboration in the wake of a major hacking incident involving SK Telecom, Yonhap News Agency reports.

The latest cybersecurity awareness campaign asks users to pause for nine seconds before clicking — but this approach misplaces responsibility and ignores the real problems of system design.

Dutch intelligence agencies have identified the new Russian-linked hacker group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, as the culprit behind a cyberattack on the country's national police last year, in which attackers accessed contact details of all officers, according to The Associated Press.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will have lost almost all of its top officials by the end of the month, threatening the agency's partnerships amid mounting cybersecurity threats against U.S. infrastructure, Cybersecurity Dive reports.

Organizations have been urged by U.S., Canadian, Australian, UK, and other countries' government agencies to fast-track the adoption of Security Information and Event Management and Security Orchestration, Automation and Response platforms that enable immediate cybersecurity event detection and response efforts, according to Infosecurity Magazine.

[This is a Guest Diary by Jennifer Wilson, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu Bachelor's Degree in Applied Cybersecurity (BACS) program [1].]

BleepingComputer reports that Iranian national Sina Gholinejad, also known as Sina Ghaaf, was announced by the U.S. Department of Justice to have entered a guilty plea for his involvement in the Robbinhood ransomware operation.

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