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

Opening:

• Misinformation, Deepfakes, and AI’s Unwelcome Companions. This blog is part of Gate 15’s blog series “Riding the Tiger: AI Threats and Opportunities”, highlighting the essential considerations for organizational leaders and security professionals.

• Researchers warn of coordinated influence accounts amplifying synthetic AI-generated geopolitical narratives across social platforms

• Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda

• Trump’s AI executive order postponed. Here’s why. & Trump’s AI order sacks tech experts and sidelines safety testing

• Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power

• Health-ISAC: Healthcare is scaling AI without the infrastructure to manage it

• AT&T joins Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute’s C2-ISAC initiative - AT&T, and see Who’s whispering in Trump’s ear on Iran for more on C2-ISAC (“New ISAC in Town”) and lots of other articles sharing this announcement.

• GAO: Critical Infrastructure Protection: EPA Needs to Ensure Water Systems Address Risks from Cybersecurity Threats

• Ranking Member Lofgren’s Opening Statement at Water Cybersecurity Hearing & Ranking Member Amos’ Opening Statement at Water Cybersecurity Hearing

• Tip of the Week – May 21, 2026 - WaterISAC

Main Topics:

2026 Data Breach Investigations Report - Verizon - 19 May 2026

• 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report finds third-party risk and credential abuse accelerating

• Verizon DBIR: Vulnerability Exploits Overtake Credentials as Top Access Vector

• What the 2026 Verizon DBIR Signals About Internet Intelligence and External Visibility

• Verizon 2026 DBIR: 10 Takeaways You Should Know

• Verizon DBIR finds vulnerability exploitation overtakes stolen credentials as top breach entry point for critical infrastructure

• Patches take weeks. Exploits take hours. The 2026 DBIR makes the math brutal.

San Diego Mosque Shooting and Extremism

• San Diego Shooter So Alarmed Police in 2025, They Seized Father's Guns

• CSIS: The San Diego Mosque Shooting Marks a Deadly First in the United States

• ‘It’s the Jews’: San Diego mosque shooters decried ‘the universal enemy’ in hate-filled manifesto

• San Diego mosque shooter Caleb Vazquez’s family breaks silence on terror attack, say autistic son was brainwashed online

• Several people watched San Diego attack live on video calls, recordings show

• Violent Neo-Nazi Ideology at the Heart of San Diego Attack

• San Diego Mosque Shooting Another Symptom Of The “Great Replacement” Conspiracy Theory

• San Diego Mosque Shooters’ Apparent Manifestos Reveal Anti-Muslim Extremism

• San Diego shooting suspects had manifesto, weapons cache: FBI

• Father-of-eight killed in San Diego mosque shooting hailed as a hero

• Imam blames anti-Muslim rhetoric for San Diego attack: ‘This is what we get’

Quick Hits:

• NOAA predicts below-normal 2026 Atlantic hurricane season – NOAA

• Nine Practical Ideas to Strengthen Preparedness This Hurricane Season

• Ebola: Worldwide Caution - U.S. Department of State

• World Cup’s Ebola factor

• There is no Ebola vaccine for this outbreak. There won’t be one soon. Here’s why.

• WHO chief says Ebola outbreak in Congo is ‘spreading rapidly’ and upgrades risk assessment

• Threat Actors Impersonate IC3 Employees to Defraud Victims - FBI IC3

• “First VPN Service” Used by Ransomware Actors to Compromise Systems - FBI IC3