This week’s roundup highlights disruptions to transit and critical services, high-profile account hijacking campaigns, data breaches, and advances in defensive technology and policy. Key items include a Los Angeles Metro lockout amid a World Leaks claim, FBI and CISA warnings about messaging-account hijacks, outages at Intoxalock and Heritage Bank data theft, and new initiatives like ETH Zurich’s anti-deepfake chip and Google’s 2029 quantum-safe deadline. #LosAngelesMetro #WorldLeaks
Keypoints
- Los Angeles Metro shut down internal admin systems, disrupting station displays and TAP card services while denying customer data compromise.
- FBI and CISA warned of a Russian-linked phishing campaign hijacking Signal and WhatsApp accounts of high-value targets.
- An attack on Intoxalock’s systems prevented breathalyzer-calibrated vehicles from starting, forcing some drivers to tow cars for service.
- Heritage Bank reported files stolen from an internal employee file-sharing server, exposing customer and employee PII.
- A DHS funding lapse has furloughed about 60% of CISA staff, leaving remaining personnel to perform only essential functions amid rising threats.