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In the security news this week:
- Residential proxy abuse is everywhere this week: from Google's takedown of IPIDEA to massive Citrix NetScaler scanning and the Badbox 2.0 botnet
- Supply chain fun time: Notepad++ updates were hijacked
- Attackers set their sights on: Ivanti EPMM, Dell Unity storage, Fortinet VPNs/firewalls, and ASUSTOR NAS devices
- Russian state hackers went after Poland's grid
- Is ICE on a surveillance shopping spree and into hacking anti-ICE apps?
- Ukraine's war-time Starlink problem is turning into a policy and controls experiment
- The AI security theme is alive and well with exposed LLM endpoints, OpenClaw/Moltbot/Moltbook fiasco, and letting anyone hijack agents
- Signed forensic driver for Windows is still an EDR killer
- The Trump administration's rollback of software security attestation
- National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says: "less regulation, more cooperation."
- Finally, there are some "only in infosec" human stories: * pen testers arrested in Iowa now getting a settlement, * a Google engineer convicted over stolen AI IP, * Booz Allen losing Treasury work over intentional insider leaks, * and an "AI psychosis" saga at an adult-content platform.
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