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In this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:
- Stopping Vehicles Before They Become Weapons at Church; Learn how to protect your church from vehicle-based attacks using bollards and physical barriers.
- DHS to cut 75% of staff in its intelligence office amid heightened threat environment
- North Korean IT Worker Threat: Microsoft – Jasper Sleet: North Korean remote IT workers’ evolving tactics to infiltrate organizations
Main Topics:
Severe Weather, Texas & Camp Mystic Flood Disaster.
- FEMA Activates in Texas Following President Trump’s Major Disaster Declaration Announcement
- How the cataclysmic floods unfolded, minute by minute, amid darkness and chaos
- Texas Hill Country is no stranger to flash floods, but alerts came too late
- Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas
- Chantal triggers life-threatening flash floods as storm pushes inland in North Carolina and Virginia
- Chantal continues to bring flooding rain as it moves inland after South Carolina landfall
- A Majority of Companies Are Already Feeling the Climate Heat
Scams!
- FBI PSA: Fraudsters Target US Stock Investors through Investment Clubs Accessed on Social Media and Messaging Applications
- Cyber Criminals Target Prime Day Shoppers with Fake Amazon Domains and Phishing Scams
Iran and Domestic Threats.
- Iran Suspected of Scouting Jewish Targets in Europe
- Sleeper cells and threat warnings: how the US-Iran conflict is spinning up fear
- After U.S. strikes on Iran, officials warn of retaliation from ‘sleeper cells’ in the U.S.
- Iran-linked hackers threaten to release Trump aides’ emails
- Iran’s Top General Issues Threat
Quick Hits:
- DOJ investigates ex-ransomware negotiator over extortion kickbacks
- Risky Biz News – C&M hack linked to malicious insider: Brazilian authorities have arrested a 48-year-old programmer in connection with the hack of software company C&M and six Brazilian banks.
- Cybercrime set to become the world’s third largest economy
- How Much More Must We Bleed? – Citrix NetScaler Memory Disclosure (CitrixBleed 2 CVE-2025-5777)
- AIVD: threat against the Netherlands remains high, uncertainty regarding world order
- CYFIRMA: Executive Threat Landscape Report Australia
- Hack3d: The Web3 Security Quarterly Report – Q2 + H1 2025
- ReliaQuest: Ransomware and Cyber Extortion in Q2 2025
- Comparitech: Ransomware Roundup: H1 2025 stats on attacks, ransoms, and active gangs
- National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in 324 Defendants Charged in Connection with Over $14.6 Billion in Alleged Fraud.
- Chinese Scholars Probe for Weaknesses in Western Electricity Grids
- Chinese Hackers Target France in Ivanti Zero-Day Exploit Campaign
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.
We hope you’ll subscribe, listen and share your ideas and other feedback! Reach out to us on Threads, LinkedIn, via email at Gate15@gate15.global.