In this week's Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:

Warm Open:

• 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