Commerce setting up new AI export regime to push adoption of ‘American AI’ abroad

Multiple CyberScoop stories highlight an elevated and active threat landscape: Iranian government-linked actors are conducting disruptive operations against U.S. energy, water and government OT/ICS systems (Censys identified ~3,900 exposed devices) and a joint federal alert warns of ongoing attacks. Separately, Russia-linked GRU operators (Forest Blizzard / APT28) hijacked home/edge routers to harvest credentials across ~18,000 devices before an FBI takedown (Operation Masquerade). Researchers disclosed a hack-for-hire spyware campaign (Bitter, ProSpy) targeting journalists in the MENA region.