Norway continues to investigate a cyberattack. The view from Russia. Trends in data breaches, ransom payments, and security self-perception. Apple patches iOS.

A zero-day attack of undetermined origin targets government offices in Norway. Russia accuses the US of cyber aggression. Data breaches exact a rising cost. 74% of survey respondents say their company would pay ransom to recover stolen or encrypted data. Executives and security teams differ in their perception of cyber threat readiness. Mr. Security Answer Person John Pescatore looks at risk metrics. Joe Carrigan on a new dark market AI tool called Worm GPT. And Apple issues urgent …

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