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On this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:
Warm Open:
- Gate 15 – Blueprints Before Breaches: Planning for Ransomware Resilience. This blog is part of Gate 15’s Summer of Security: Ransomware Resilience Series, highlighting the essential considerations for organizational leaders and cybersecurity professionals. Planning for a ransomware attack is a vital component of any organization’s cybersecurity strategy. Having a ransomware plan is important because it helps organizations prepare for, respond to, and recover from ransomware attacks effectively.
- Happening Today!: WaterISAC’s 2025 H2OSecCon! (20 May) From cybersecurity to climate resilience, operational continuity to public trust, we must collaborate across sectors to build smarter, stronger, and more adaptive systems. That’s why we’re inviting leaders like you to join the WaterISAC’s 2025 H2OSecCon. Connect with peers and leaders committed to enhancing the resilience of our nation’s critical systems. Whether you’re in public utilities, transportation, energy, or emergency management, H2OSecCon 2025 offers invaluable perspectives and tools to navigate the complexities of today’s infrastructure challenges. Secure your spot today and be part of the solution.
Main Topics:
Palm Springs Bombing
- FBI links California fertility clinic bombing to anti-natalist ideology
- Hate Amplified: Online Posts About U.S. Judges Take Increasingly Violent Turn
- Michigan Man Arrested and Charged with Attempting to Attack Military Base on Behalf of ISIS
- The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians
- The world’s largest incel forum reacts to Netflix’s Adolescence with hate and conspiracies
- First Responders Toolbox: Large Public Gatherings Attractive Targets for Violent Extremists
Coinbase & Insider Threat
- Protecting Our Customers – Standing Up to Extortionists
- Coinbase Global, Inc. & 8-K filed on 2025-05-15
- Coinbase flips $20M extortion demand into bounty for info on attackers; The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. said cybercriminals bribed insiders to steal data on customers, some of whom were duped into handing over crypto assets.
- Coinbase says customers’ personal information stolen in data breach
- Insider Bribes Behind Coinbase Hack Exposing Customer Data
- Coinbase responds to USD 400 million insider threat attack | Cyber Intelligence Briefing: 16 May 2025
28 dead, half a million without power as deadly storms, tornadoes sweep across central, eastern US. At least 28 people have died and dozens more were injured after a devastating wave of severe weather swept across the central United States late Friday into Saturday, leaving a trail of catastrophic destruction. Large tornadoes have been reported in Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana with hard-hit southeastern Kentucky reporting a majority of the fatalities. According to Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, there were 18 confirmed deaths in the state connected to the severe weather. The fatalities include 17 people in Laurel County and one in Pulaski County.
Quick Hits:
- FBI PSA: Senior US Officials Impersonated in Malicious Messaging Campaign
- FBI PSA: Impersonation Scheme Targeting Middle Eastern Students in the United States
- Update to How CISA Shares Cyber-Related Alerts and Notifications
- Securing Critical Infrastructure: GitGuardian Partners with ONE-ISAC to Protect Oil & Natural Energy Operations
- AMWA throws support behind CISA reauthorization
- Major Crypto Firms Spending Millions on Personal Security
- Crypto elite increasingly worried about their personal safety
- France Launches Crypto Security Measures After Targeted Kidnapping Surge
- The US hasn’t seen a human bird flu case in 3 months
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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