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In this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the topics below.
Opening:
- Gate 15: Leveraging AI for Proactive Physical Threat Detection and Emergency Response
- Cloud Security Alliance: The “AI Vulnerability Storm”: Building a “Mythos-ready” Security Program
- Cyber.gov.au: Frontier models and their impact on cyber security
- Canadian Centre for Cyber Security: Frontier artificial intelligence –
- Anthropic: Glasswing
- A.I. Is on Its Way to Upending Cybersecurity
- U.S. Department of the Treasury: Treasury Launches Cybersecurity Information Sharing Initiative for the Digital Asset Industry
- Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology Digital Assets Report EO14178
- Treasury debuts effort to share cyber threat intel with crypto firms
- Crypto Firms Can Now Access Treasury’s Cybersecurity Info to Bolster Defense Against Attacks
Main Topics:
FBI Releases the 2025 Internet Crime Report: “Cryptocurrency and AI Scams Bilk Americans of Billions” — 07 Apr 2026. The FBI says IC3 received about 453,000 cyber enabled fraud complaints with losses exceeding $17.7 billion, and that investment fraud accounted for nearly half of all scam related losses. The bureau says complaints involving cryptocurrency produced the highest losses with 181,565 complaints totaling more than $11 billion, while the 2025 IC3 report also says cryptocurrency investment fraud alone reached $7.2 billion and that AI related cybercrime complaints totaled 22,364 with losses nearing $893 million.
Threat Landscape Report 2025: A Year in Review — 08 Apr 2026. CERT-EU said it tracked at least 174 distinct threat actors affecting Union entities or their ecosystem in 2025, up from 110 in 2024, and said cyberespionage and prepositioning remained the dominant motives while cybercrime also rose. The report says exploitation of vulnerabilities in internet-facing software remained the highest-impact initial access vector for the second consecutive year and that edge devices from vendors including Fortinet, Ivanti, Cisco, and Palo Alto accounted for much of the observed attack activity.
Quick Hits:
- CSU Forecast for 2026 Hurricane Activity & CSU researchers predicting somewhat below-average Atlantic hurricane season for 2026, PDF.
- The first predictions for hurricane season are in and El Niño’s fingerprints are all over it
- Super Typhoon Sinlaku Slams Northern Mariana Islands and Guam with Devastating Winds and Catastrophic Flooding, A Travel Nightmare Unfolds
- 2026 Cyber Claims Report & 86% of businesses refused to pay cyber ransoms in 2025: Coalition insurance
- DHS Shutdown Day 58: Secretary Mullin Orders All Staff Back to Work Despite No Congressional Deal
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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