Welcome to my weekly cybersecurity roundup! Here, I share updates on the projects I’m currently working on, along with the most insightful cybersecurity videos I watched, articles I found valuable, and podcasts I tuned into this week.
Featured Analysis
Featured article analysis: Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’
This is a critically important warning for every organization dependent on modern infrastructure, from financial services to manufacturing. The Director-General of Australia’s Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Mike Burgess, has explicitly stated that authoritarian nations are preparing to commit “high-impact sabotage” against critical infrastructure, specifically targeting energy supplies and telecommunications networks. Burgess moved these threats out of the realm of hypothetical concern, noting that “elite teams” working for foreign governments are actively investigating these possibilities right now. Citing groups like the China-backed Volt Typhoon, whose intent was disruptive penetration of American critical infrastructure, the intelligence chief underscored that once network access is achieved, the ensuing destruction or disruption is merely a matter of intent, not capability.
The most jarring aspect of the warning for corporate boards and leadership teams is the critique of enterprise complacency and governance. Burgess delivered his remarks to the nation’s financial regulators and pointed out that most security incidents involve “a known problem with a known fix.” He argues that organizational surprise and struggle in the face of outages stem from a combination of poor governance and a lack of preparation for foreseeable threats. The challenge, according to ASIO, is that many leaders treat security as a “PowerPoint risk” something to be passively managed via presentations rather than an existential business continuity issue requiring proactive, connected, and coherent risk management across the entire enterprise.
For LinkedIn professionals especially CISOs, CIOs, and Board members this analysis demands a strategic pivot from mere espionage defense to resilience against sabotage. It is a clear call to action to move beyond siloed security excellence (like isolated advanced detection systems) and focus on a “connected web” of defense that protects the most critical data and services. The core takeaway is that complexity is not an excuse for inaction. Organizations must immediately identify their essential operational technology (OT) and core systems, determine their vulnerabilities, and implement “all reasonable steps” to manage those risks, recognizing that failure to do so for foreseeable and knowable threats is inexcusable governance failure.
Projects
- TryHackMe – CAPA: The Basics – In Progress
Articles
- New Browser Security Report Reveals Emerging Threats for Enterprises – According to the new Browser Security Report 2025, security leaders are discovering that most identity, SaaS, and AI-related risks converge in a single place, the user’s browser. Yet traditional controls like DLP, EDR, and SSE still operate one layer too low.
- 5 reasons why attackers are phishing over LinkedIn – Phishing attacks are no longer confined to the email inbox, with 34% of phishing attacks now taking place over non-email channels like social media, search engines, and messaging apps.
- “Bitcoin Queen” gets 11 years in prison for $7.3 billion Bitcoin scam – A Chinese woman known as the “Bitcoin Queen” was sentenced in London to 11 years and eight months in jail for laundering Bitcoin from a £5.5 billion ($7.3 billion) cryptocurrency investment scheme.
- Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’ – ‘Elite teams’ are pondering cyber-attacks to turn off energy supply or telecoms networks
- Nearly 30 Alleged Victims of Oracle EBS Hack Named on Cl0p Ransomware Site – The Cl0p website lists major organizations such as Logitech, The Washington Post, Cox Enterprises, Pan American Silver, LKQ Corporation, and Copeland.
- DoorDash hit by new data breach in October exposing user information – DoorDash has disclosed a data breach that hit the food delivery platform this October.
- Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic’s AI to Launch Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign – State-sponsored threat actors from China used artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by Anthropic to orchestrate automated cyber attacks as part of a “highly sophisticated espionage campaign” in mid-September 2025.
- Checkout.com snubs hackers after data breach, to donate ransom instead – UK financial technology company Checkout announced that the ShinyHunters threat group has breached one of its legacy cloud storage systems and is now extorting the company for a ransom.