Coerced Labor in Scam Compounds Is Reshaping How Enterprises Face Fraud Risks Fraud operations in Southeast Asia increasingly rely on trafficked workers forced into scams. This reality challenges assumptions about threat actor behavior, complicates attribution and negotiation, and demands that enterprises rethink fraud prevention and disruption strategies.
Also: Washington's AI Policy Divide, FDA's Push for AI-Driven Clinical Trials In this week's panel, four ISMG editors discussed the battle over who gets to access powerful AI cybersecurity models, policy issues unfolding in Washington over AI-driven cyber defenses, and how the FDA is beginning to test AI-supported real-time clinical trials to speed up drug development.
State Insurance Officials Seeking Details About Service Firm's Mega Data Breach Missouri regulators are widening their investigation into the 204 hacking incident at Conduent Business Services, alleging that the company has stonewalled the state's attempts to obtain information about the data breach, which is estimated to affect more than 25 million people nationwide.
Top Democrat Warns States Are Losing Federal Cyber Defense Support A top U.S, Senate Democrat decried shrinking federal support for election security ahead of the November midterms, warning that cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency could leave states without cyber defense or threat intelligence capabilities
AI-Developed Attack Tooling Generated 'High-Volume, Noisy Workflows' A hacker used Claude and Chat GPT in a cyberattack against a municipal water and sewage utility's operational technology systems in Mexico in January, according to forensic analysis by OT security firm Dragos. The tools "leveraged known techniques and existing vulnerability knowledge."