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

Main Topics:

Annunciation Catholic Church Attack

• Minneapolis Suspect Knew Her Target, but Motive Is a Mystery

• Shooter who opened fire on Minneapolis Catholic school posted rambling videos

• Robin Westman: Minneapolis gunman was son of church employee

• Robin Westman posted a manifesto on YouTube prior to Annunciation Church shooting

• Minneapolis school shooter wrote “I am terrorist” and “Kill yourself” in Russian on weapon magazines and listened to Russian rappers

• Minneapolis Catholic Church shooter mocked Christ in video before attack

• Minneapolis school shooter 'obsessed with idea of killing children', authorities say

• Minnesota Mass Shooter Steeped in Far-Right Lore, White Nationalist Murderers

• In Secret Diaries, the Church Shooter’s Plans for Mass Murder

• Minneapolis church shooting search warrants reveal new details and evidence

• 'There is no message': The search for ideological motives in the Minneapolis shooting

• Minneapolis Church Shooting: Understanding the Suspect’s Video

• More Of Minnesota Shooter’s Writings Uncovered: ‘Gender And Weed F***ed Up My Head’

• Classmates say Minnesota school shooter gave Nazi salutes and idolized school shootings back in middle school

Hoax Active Shooter Reports

• More than a dozen universities have been targeted by false active shooter reports

• This Is the Group That's Been Swatting US Universities

• FBI urges students to be vigilant amid wave of swatting hoaxes

AI & Cyber Threats

• The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived

• Researchers flag code that uses AI systems to carry out ransomware attacks & First known AI-powered ransomware uncovered by ESET Research

• Anthropic: Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025

• A quick look at sextortion at scale: 1,900 messages and 205 Bitcoin addresses spanning four years

Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed Global Espionage System

• FBI warns Chinese hacking campaign has expanded, reaching 80 countries

• Allied spy agencies blame 3 Chinese tech companies for Salt Typhoon attacks

• UK NCSC: UK and allies expose China-based technology companies for enabling global cyber campaign against critical networks

Quick Hits:

• Storm-0501’s evolving techniques lead to cloud-based ransomware

• Why Hypervisors Are the New-ish Ransomware Target

• FBI Releases Use-of-Force Data Update

• Denmark summons US envoy over report on covert American ‘influence operations’ in Greenland

• Falsos Amigos

• Surge in coordinated scans targets Microsoft RDP auth servers

• Vulnerabilities impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway - CVE-2025-7775, CVE-2025-7776 and CVE-2025-8424

• Citrix patches trio of NetScaler bugs – after attackers beat them to it

• U.S., Japan, and ROK Join Mandiant to Counter North Korean IT Worker Threats

• US sanctions fraud network used by North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ to seek jobs and steal money

• H1 2025 Malware and Vulnerability Trends

• The FDA just overhauled its COVID vaccine guidance. Here’s what it means for you

• 25 August 2025 NCSC, AFOSI, ACIC, NCIS, DCSA, FBI, ED, NIST, NSF bulletin

• DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

• Blistering Wyden letter seeks review of federal court cybersecurity, citing ‘incompetence,’ ‘negligence’

• Email Phishing Scams Increasingly Target Churches