Scattered Spider hacker snagged in Spain.

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Spanish authorities snag a top Scattered Spider hacker. HC3 issues an alert about PHP. WIRED chats with ShinyHunters about the breach affecting Snowflake customers. Meta delays LLM training over European privacy concerns. D-Link urges customers to upgrade routers against a factory installed backdoor. A new Linux malware uses emojis for command and control. Vermont’s Governor vetoes a groundbreaking privacy bill. California fines Blackbaud millions over a 2020 data breach. Guest Patrick Joyce, Proofpoint's Global Resident CISO, sharing some key challenges, expectations and priorities of chief information security officers (CISOs) worldwide. N2K’s CSO Rick Howard for a preview of his latest CSO Perspectives podcast episode on The Current State of XDR: A Rick-the-Toolman episode.  Be sure to change those virtual locks. 
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Guest Patrick Joyce, Proofpoint's Global Resident CISO, sharing some key challenges, expectations and priorities of chief information security officers (CISOs) worldwide. You can learn more from their 2024 Voice of the CISO report. 

CSO Perspectives 
Dave is joined by N2K’s CSO Rick Howard for a preview of his latest CSO Perspectives podcast episode on The Current State of XDR: A Rick-the-Toolman episode. You can find the accompanying essay here. If you are not an N2K CyberWire Pro subscriber, you can catch the first half of the episode as a preview here. 

Selected Reading
Alleged Scattered Spider ringleader taken down in Spain after law enforcement crackdown (ITPro)
US HC3 issues alert on critical PHP vulnerability impacting healthcare sector (Industrial Cyber)
Hackers Detail How They Allegedly Stole Ticketmaster Data From Snowflake (WIRED)
Meta Pauses European GenAI Development Over Privacy Concerns (Infosecurity Magazine)
Hidden Backdoor in D-Link Routers Let Attacker Login as Admin (GB Hackers)
New Linux malware is controlled through emojis sent from Discord (Bleeping Computer)
Vermont governor rejects state’s tough data privacy bill (The Record)
Blackbaud must pay $6.75 million, improve security after lying about scope of 2020 hack (The Record)
Former IT employee gets 2.5 years for wiping 180 virtual servers (Bleeping Computer) 

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