Governance, Regulation, Legislation, Geostrategies

UNESCO IFAP focuses on digital inclusion

(DigWatch) UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP) convened an orientation meeting on 20 May to brief stakeholders on its activities and priorities in an increasingly complex digital and information environment. The meeting took place as the Programme marks its 25th anniversary in 2026. IFAP Chair Ambassador Salih Abdullah said the anniversary presents an opportunity to strengthen the Programme’s role as a global platform for policy dialogue and standard-setting in the digital era. He linked IFAP’s mission to UNESCO’s wider goal of ensuring access to information and supporting inclusive knowledge societies. – https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/information-all-programme-convenes-its-community-address-fast-evolving-digital-ecosystem

Belgium outperforms EU average in business AI use

(DigWatch) Belgium ranks among Europe’s top five countries for business use of AI, with more than a third of companies now using at least one AI technology. In 2025, 34.54% of Belgian companies reported using AI, up from 24.71% in 2024. The figure is well above the European average of 19.95%, according to the latest Belgian Digital Economy Overview. Adoption varies strongly by company size. More than 76% of large enterprises already use AI technologies, compared with just over 28% of small businesses. – https://www.belganewsagency.eu/belgium-ranks-among-top-5-in-europe-for-ai-use-by-businesses

United Kingdom launches AI Growth Lab to support legal sector innovation

(DigWatch) The UK government has launched an advisory AI Growth Lab to support responsible AI adoption in regulated industries, starting with the legal services sector. The Ministry of Justice said the advisory sandbox is designed to accelerate the development and deployment of AI products and services by helping innovators navigate existing regulatory frameworks with greater confidence. – https://www.gov.uk/government/news/advisory-ai-growth-lab-to-support-responsible-ai-adoption-in-legal-services

EU and Kenya deepen cooperation on digital transformation and connectivity

(DigWatch) The European Union and Kenya are deepening their strategic partnership on trade, digital transformation, and sustainable investment. The commitments were set out in Brussels, where European Commission Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy Henna Virkkunen welcomed Kenyan President William Ruto. – https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/eu-and-kenya-strengthen-partnership

Regulated crypto sector in Russia may lead local investor activity by 2028

(DigWatch) Russia’s regulated cryptocurrency market could become the primary trading venue for domestic investors within the next two to three years, according to industry forecasts. The transition is expected to unfold gradually as regulatory frameworks mature and trading infrastructure develops. Cifra Markets Executive Director Alexey Korolenko said the transition is expected to be gradual, representing a longer-term realignment rather than a sudden shift in market activity. Current trading behaviour is still heavily linked to global platforms, but domestic regulated channels are expected to gain traction over time. – https://dig.watch/updates/crypto-sector-russia-may-lead-investor-activity

Security and Surveillance

How Enterprises are Adapting GRC For a More Complex Risk Environment

(Harry Clarke – Infosecurity Magazine) Enterprises have spent years building the systems, teams and customer relationships that keep their businesses moving. Now they need to protect that progress without slowing growth. That means maintaining resilience across complex infrastructure, expanding digital operations safely and giving customers confidence that security and compliance are under control. But as threats become more sophisticated, that balance is getting harder to maintain. According to Vanta’s State of Trust Report, 72% of security leaders say overall risk is at an all-time high, while 56% of organizations experience threat activity at least once a week. – https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/how-enterprises-are-adapting-grc/

Check Point Warns Critical Auth Bypass Bug Exploited in the Wild

(Phil Muncaster-Infosecurit y Magazine) Check Point has urged customers to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access solutions that is being actively exploited. CVE-2026-50751 is an authentication bypass flaw that affects deployments configured to use the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange protocol. The security vendor revealed on June 8 that in one case, an affiliate of the Qilin ransomware group has exploited the flaw in “post-compromise activity.” – https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/check-point-critical-auth-bypass/

Infosecurity Europe: Why JLR’s CISO Enforced In-Person Password Resets Following Cyber-Attack

(Danny Palmer-Infosecurity Magazine) When Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) was hit by a major cyber-attack in September 2025, one of the first things the company’s cybersecurity leader did was to call over 30,000 staff on site to reset their passwords. Speaking during Infosecurity Europe on June 3, Ashish Shrestha CEO of Zyn Global, and group CISO of JLR at the time of the cyber incident, said that the decision was made because it was vital to ensure that the identities of the staff could be trusted post-breach and while the company responded to the incident. “My first priority was that we needed to validate whether our Microsoft 365 had been compromised or not, because we need that to communicate,” he explained in a conference session titled ‘Crisis Communications – Contingency Plans to Put in Place Now.’ – https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/jlr-cyberattack-ciso-inperson/

North Korean Hackers Use Fake Coding Tasks to Steal Crypto

(Alessandro Mascellino – Infosecurity Magazine) A likely North Korean threat actor has phished software developers at almost 100 organizations with fake job and code-review lures to steal cryptocurrency and credentials. According to new analysis from Proofpoint, which tracks the cluster as UNK_DeadDrop, the campaign sent more than 250 emails in April and May 2026. Targets were mostly US-based and worked in technology, education or finance, with a focus on cryptocurrency firms. Each email linked to a GitHub or GitLab repository dressed up as a coding assignment, with instructions to clone it and open the folder in an editor such as VS Code or Cursor. The pretexts shifted across the weeks: jobs for full-stack and “agent lead” developer roles, requests to peer-review open-source code, a task to test an ERC-4626 smart-contract vault in Foundry and a project building AI payment agents. – https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/north-korean-hackers-developers/

OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Account Security Controls

(Alessandro Mascellino – Infosecurity Magazine) ChatGPT users have gained two new security controls: one aimed at preventing data theft through prompt injection and another at tracking account sign-ins. According to OpenAI, the first of these, Lockdown Mode, is an optional setting that limits how far ChatGPT can reach into the web and external services. First offered to enterprise plans in February, it began reaching personal and self-serve business accounts in early June. The risk it addresses is not hypothetical. Researchers have repeatedly shown how a single hidden instruction can pull data from a linked inbox or leak a user’s conversations. – https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chatgpt-lockdown-mode-active/

Infosecurity Europe: Prompt Injection Remains Unsolved, OWASP Researcher Warns

(Kevin Poreault – Infosecurity Magazine) Prompt injection remains an unsolved architectural problem that could hamper the development of AI, said Ariel Fogel, a contributor to the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP), during Infosecurity Europe 2026. Fogel, an AI security researcher at Pillar Security’s office of the CTO, said that while AI and security practitioners have long known about prompt injection, the problem has yet to be solved at a fundamental level. This is because large language models (LLMs) process inputs as a single token sequence and there is no reliable mechanism to enforce privilege boundaries between system prompts, user queries and content retrieved by an agent. He warned that the issue has only become more dangerous as agents gain tools and the ability to act. – https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/infosec-europe-prompt-injection/

Securing the AI-Driven Public Sector: Why Data Governance and Trust Must Come First

(Ashish Devalekar – Infosecurity Magazine) Across the UK public sector, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming foundational to how services are delivered. Governments are using AI to combat fraud, accelerate processing, and modernise complex functions such as welfare administration, taxation, immigration, and public health. While this shift promises greater efficiency and improved decision-making, it also introduces significant cybersecurity and governance challenges at a time when threat levels are rising globally. Public sector organisations hold some of society’s most sensitive data, from citizen identities to health and financial records. As AI systems process this information at scale, the scope for attack expands. Without strong data governance, security controls, and accountability, AI risks amplifying existing vulnerabilities. In an environment susceptible to state-sponsored cyber activity and digital conflict, these risks extend beyond individual organisations, carrying wider national security implications. In practice, AI projects often rely on data that is shared across multiple departments and agencies. These entities share data to verify benefits eligibility, support safeguarding, prevent fraud, and coordinate services, using structured legal gateways and governance frameworks. As systems become more interconnected, vulnerabilities can cascade across departments, reinforcing the need to treat cybersecurity as a core, system-wide discipline rather than a standalone function. – https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/securing-the-aidriven-public-sector/

Two-Thirds of Open Source Community Unaware of Cyber Resilience Act

(Phil Muncaster – Infosecurity Magazine) A leading open source security body has warned of “stagnating awareness and structural unreadiness” in the community ahead of a key December 2027 deadline for compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The CRA is an EU effort to introduce minimum security standards for hardware and software products sold in the region. Manufacturers must build security into their products from planning to end of life, including handling vulnerability management and managing software supply chain risks. – https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/open-source-unaware-cyber/

Infosecurity Europe: How DSIT Protects Thousands of UK Orgs from Cyber Vulnerabilities

(Danny Palmer – Infosecurity Magazine) The UK’s Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is responsible for securing over half a million domains across thousands of government organizations. This ranges from the smallest Parish Councils to the behemoth that is the National Health Service (NHS) and its various sub-organizations. That makes advising these organizations on what the latest cybersecurity vulnerabilities are and how to fix them a challenge, especially in an era when frontier AI Models are uncovering more vulnerabilities than ever before. However, that does not mean each individual organization must fully understand the technical details of what vulnerabilities could be exploited. Rather, it is more important that they are provided with the correct information on what to fix and how to fix it, explained Nick Woodcraft service owner for vulnerability monitoring at DSIT. “When you come with a problem, rather than talking about the technology, talk about the outcomes,” he said said, Woodcraft was speaking at Infosecurity Europe 2026, in a session on the Resilience and Cyber Risk stage, titled ‘From Months to Days: How DSIT Is Rethinking Remediation at Scale’. – https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/infosecurity-europe-dsit-cyber/

New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses

(Ellen O’Regan – Politico) Europe is ramping up its warnings over the surveillance risks of smart glasses, in what is seen as the next big fight over people’s physical privacy. The technology, which integrates cameras into glasses, is facing increased scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators, who are ramping up discussions on whether it goes against Europe’s privacy regulations. Privacy activists are warning the glasses violate key principles like consent, since people captured in the built-in cameras can’t really object to their data being processed. Concerns peaked when Swedish media reported earlier this year that subcontractors for Meta in Kenya were reviewing “deeply private” footage captured by the firm’s smart glasses to help annotate the content to train artificial intelligence models. – https://www.politico.eu/article/new-privacy-frontier-europe-eyes-crackdown-smart-glasses/

Defense, Intelligence, Warfare

What if the A-10 had AI & electronic-warfare gear?

(Thomas Novelly – Defense One) Lawmakers want to see if the Air Force’s venerable A-10 Thunderbolt IIs can be souped up with artificial intelligence, electronic-warfare gear, or better comms to keep it in the fight. The House Armed Service Committee’s version of the annual defense policy bill included several Warthog-related provisions as part of an en bloc package. One would require a report on potential A-10 capabilities by Jan. 15, 2027, from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink, and the leaders of Air Combat Command and U.S. Central Command. – https://www.defenseone.com/defense-systems/2026/06/warthog-ai-electronic-warfare/414045/?oref=d1-homepage-top-story

Trump memo pushes national-security agencies to move faster on AI

(David DiMolfetta – Defense One) President Donald Trump on Friday signed a national-security memo aimed at speeding up government use of advanced artificial intelligence across the military and intelligence community, while also trying to harden those systems against foreign theft and manipulation. The National Security Presidential Memorandum reflects a growing view inside the White House that U.S. security agencies are moving too slowly to adopt frontier AI tools, even as the evolving technology improves rapidly and rivals like China seek ways to craft their own versions. It calls for agencies such as the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Office of the National Cyber Director to build “deep, proactive” relationships with AI companies so that cutting-edge models can be made available to national security personnel faster. – https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2026/06/trump-memo-pushes-national-security-agencies-move-faster-ai/414047/?oref=d1-featured-river-secondary

US approves Kuwait request to buy nearly $2 billion of counter-drone platforms

(Cristina Stassis-Defense News) The U.S. Department of State approved a possible sale of nearly $2 billion worth of counter-unmanned aerial systems to Kuwait. Kuwait requested the c-UAS platforms, built by Anduril, in an effort to improve the country’s ability to counter current and future threats, according to a Friday release. The request followed attacks last week carried out by Iran on Kuwait infrastructure. – https://www.defensenews.com/industry/techwatch/2026/06/08/us-approves-kuwait-request-to-buy-nearly-2-billion-of-counter-drone-platforms/

Polish-Ukrainian startup develops radar to track elusive, low-flying drones

(Jaroslaw Adamowski – Defense News) Polish-Ukrainian anti-drone radar company Molfar Defence said it is developing a new generation of tactical radar systems for drone types that have doggedly managed to penetrate Ukrainian defenses. The technology aims to find small, low-altitude drones, including those connected to operators via long command wires, a setup that makes them immune to defensive electronic warfare. – https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/06/08/polish-ukrainian-startup-develops-radar-to-track-elusive-low-flying-drones/

Frontiers

UAE laboratory introduces AI-powered prostate cancer diagnostics

(DigWatch) M42’s National Reference Laboratory has introduced an AI-powered tool for prostate cancer diagnostics in the UAE in partnership with digital pathology company Qritive. The platform will be integrated into the laboratory’s diagnostic workflow at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. The system analyses digital pathology slides, highlights suspicious findings and provides structured insights to help pathologists detect prostate cancer and assess disease severity. It is designed to identify cancerous tissue, assess tumour patterns, support grading according to internationally recognised standards and measure tumour burden. – https://gulfnews.com/uae/health/m42-brings-ai-driven-prostate-cancer-diagnostics-to-the-uae-1.500567049

China brings AI into advanced ocean forecasting systems

(DigWatch) China has unveiled LangYa 2.0, an upgraded AI-powered ocean forecasting system designed to predict complex marine phenomena with greater precision and detail. The model was unveiled at the Fourth China Digital Earth Conference in Qingdao and represents a step forward from earlier ocean monitoring tools. Developed by the Institute of Oceanology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the system goes beyond monitoring variables such as temperature and salinity to forecast high-impact events, including typhoons, storm surges, extreme rainfall, internal waves, mesoscale eddies, and sea ice. – https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/cas-in-media/202606/t20260608_1161354.shtml