Episode #185 - Critical Infrastructure Service Firm Takes Key System Offline Due to Cyber Attack; Ransomware gang targets US cancer center; Chinese Hackers Breach US Government; AI Junk is Starting to Pollute the Internet

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From Edwin Kwan in Sydney, Australia: Early this week, critical infrastructure service provider Ventia took some of its key systems offline to contain a cyber incident. The company provides management, maintenance and operation services for critical infrastructure to more than 400 sites across defense, electricity, water, and gas industries in Australia and New Zealand.

From Olimpiu Pop in Transylvania, Romania: THT - TimișoaraHackerTeam. A somewhat obscure ransom group recently disrupted operations of a US cancer center, potentially putting patient data at risk. 

From Katy Craig in San Diego, California:  A breach of Microsoft-hosted US government email servers by a Chinese hacking group was detected and fixed " fairly rapidly," according to National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. The group, known as Storm-0558, was caught forging digital authentication tokens to access federal government email servers hosted on Microsoft's Outlook platform.

From Hillary Coover in Washington, DC: The Wall Street Journal reports that as AI tools become more accessible, we'll see a disturbing trend of fake news and what they call "AI junk" flooding the internet. This has some serious implications for spreading misinformation and all of the risks that come with that.

From Sourced Network Production in New York City. "It's 5:05". I'm Pokie Huang. Today is Friday, July 14th. Here's the full story behind today's cyber security and open source headlines...