The Fourth Battlefield: The Growing Role of Cyber Operations in Global Conflict
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What happened
SecurityWeek coverage highlights active and emerging cyber threats, including attacks against synced passkeys, exploited vulnerabilities in Langflow, N-central, and Tomcat, a large NPM supply-chain compromise, water-sector disruptions, healthcare data theft affecting approximately 311,000 people, and risks from autonomous AI agents. The reporting also covers cyber operations in geopolitical conflict and guidance for AI incident data sharing and AI security controls.
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