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This week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy begin with a World Cup recap and continue with their weekly coverage of security threats.
Opening
- (TLP:CLEAR) WaterISAC – EPA: National Security Information Sharing Bulletin – Q2 2026 — WaterISAC
- The New Threat Environment; Why geopolitics matters to your water system — NRWA
- Registration is open for WaterISAC’s H2OEx – Camden — Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies
- EPA Advisory: Protecting Sensitive Operational Information in Water and Wastewater Systems — EPA
Main Topics:
Election Security and Cascading Risks: An explosion of AI deepfakes is redefining American elections — Axios — 16 Jun 2026. Axios reports that AI-generated campaign ads and deepfake political content are becoming increasingly common across U.S. election activity. The trend is blurring the line between satire, persuasion, and deception while many disclosure requirements remain voluntary or inconsistent. The operational concern is that voters, campaigns, and media organizations may struggle to rapidly validate manipulated political content during fast-moving election cycles. Target is communications teams, election stakeholders, and executive leaders with Dig highlighting AI-generated political media as a growing trust and reputational risk.
- FBI foils alleged plot to attack White House UFC event, Patel says
- Man pleads guilty to killing a top Minnesota Democrat and her husband in politically motivated attack
- Man Charged with Sending Antisemitic Threats to Kill Governor of Hawaii and His Family — U.S. DOJ
- Threats Against Politicians Skyrocketed After Meta Changed Its Speech Rules & Violent Threats Against Members of Congress Quadrupled After Meta Rolled Back Moderation Policies — Center for Countering Digital Hate
Operation Epic Fury & Continued Threats:
- ThreatBeat reports Iranian-linked hackers claimed California water system breaches after Iran water facility strike & Iranian Cyber Group Handala Claims Cal Water Hack
- Iran and US reach an initial deal to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz but challenges remain
- U.S. and Iran Shape the Optics of an Agreement
- Domestic: Iran-linked group claims hack of FBI drones, threatens World Cup, monitor says
- Swedish Crime Group Foxtrot Adds Fuel to Iran’s Proxy War in Europe
Anthropic, AI & Patching… N-days \ red.anthropic.com — Anthropic — 09 Jun 2026. Anthropic reported that frontier models can significantly accelerate development of exploits for N-day vulnerabilities, which are publicly disclosed flaws that remain unpatched on many systems. In testing, Claude Mythos Preview built working code-execution exploits for Firefox patches and full exploit chains against Windows kernel vulnerabilities, including one proof of concept in 31 minutes. Anthropic warned that the patch gap is becoming more dangerous as the cost and expertise required to weaponize disclosed vulnerabilities declines. Target is vulnerability management teams, software vendors, and security leaders with Dig highlighting that AI-enabled exploitation may sharply compress the available time for patching and mitigation.
- Exclusive: Anthropic’s Mythos can exploit new flaws in hours — Axios
- Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
- Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order
- “They screwed us”: Personality clashes sent Anthropic’s models offline
- Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5, a Limited-Release AI Model
- CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Ivanti flaw by Sunday & CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog – CVE-2026-10520 Ivanti Sentry OS Command Injection Vulnerability
- Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2026-35273 & Cybercriminals claim breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations
Quick Hits:
- Wildfire Threats: National Interagency Coordination Center: 7-Day Significant Fire Potential
- Weekly ransomware & data leak landscape — eCrime.ch — 15 Jun 2026. eCrime.ch reported 210 observed ransomware and data leak events for the 09 Jun to 15 Jun 2026 reporting window. The report identified 96 public data leak indicators, 38 active actors, and DeadLock as the highest-volume actor with 73 observed events.
- Ransomware Evolution Report — Halcyon
- Ransomware-as-a-Service: LockBit Alumni Launch Competing Programs as Ecosystem Consolidates in Q1 2026
- Ransomware Cybersecurity Framework Community Profile — NCCoE
- National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-12: National Policy for the Cybersecurity of National Security Systems — The White House
- CISA sees leadership shakeup after infrastructure security chief moves to ONCD
- MS-ISAC enters uncertain new era after losing federal funding and thousands of members
Read more about Gate 15’s full podcast menu at our Podcast page. You can subscribe and enjoy all the Gate 15 Podcasts on Spotify for Podcasters, Apple, Spotify, as well as other locations accessible from the Spotify for Podcasters link. Week-to-week, you can hear and learn more about our all-hazards threats, risks, mitigation and other issues impacting homeland security risk management from our team as well as our regular and special guests. The full podcast menu includes:
- The Security Sprint is our weekly rundown of the week’s notable all-hazards security news, risks and threats and some of the key focus areas for organizations to consider behind the headlines. Gate 15 team members discuss physical security, cybersecurity, natural hazards, health threats and other issues across our environment.
- Nerd Out! Security Panel Discussion, moderated by Dave Pounder, focuses on physical security topics including terrorism, extremism, hostile events, and other pertinent topics.
- The Gate 15 Interview, is a monthly interview between Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour and guests from throughout the homeland security risk management community addressing a wide range of all-hazards topics and issues.
- The Cybersecurity Evangelist, with Jennifer Lyn Walker, is a cybersecurity-focused discussion with Jen and invited guests. This is presently a Gate 15 special podcast and occasionally is updated on our Gate 15 podcast channel.
- Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series was a 2024 limited series podcast as Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour hosted a series of short interviews with venue safety and security experts from the International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM) Venue Safety and Security Committee (VSSC) and other special guests from the IAVM community.
- The Risk Roundtable, was a monthly discussion among our team and occasional guests exploring the all-hazards threats and risks impacting the United States and internationally. This was suspended in September 2023.
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