Western authorities I.D. a key member of Evil Corp. A major U.S. water utility suffers a cyberattack. ODNI warns of influence campaigns targeting presidential and congressional races. A California deepfakes law gets blocked. Europol leads a global effort against human trafficking. Trinity ransomware targets the healthcare industry. Qualcomm patches a critical zero-day in its DSP service. ADT discloses a breach of encrypted employee data. North Korean hackers use stealthy Powershell exploits. On our Threat Vector segment, David Moulton and his guests tackle the pressing challenges of securing Operational Technology (OT) environments.  Machine Learning pioneers win the Nobel Prize.  Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. Threat Vector Segment In this segment of Threat Vector, David Moulton, Director of Thought Leadership at Palo Alto Networks, hosts cybersecurity experts Qiang Huang Chung hwang, Palo Alto Networks VP of Product Management for Cloud Delivered Security Services, and Michela Menting, Senior Research Director in Digital Security at ABI Research, discuss the pressing challenges of securing Operational Technology (OT) environments.  Join us each Thursday for a new episode of Threat Vector on the N2K CyberWire network. To hear David, Michela and Qiang’s full discussion, check it out here.  Selected Reading Police unmask Aleksandr Ryzhenkov as Evil Corp member and LockBit affiliate (The Record) American Water, the largest water utility in US, is targeted by a cyberattack (Associated Press) US Warns of Foreign Interference in Congressional Races (Infosecurity Magazine) US Judge Blocks California's Law Curbing Election Deepfakes (BankInfo Security) Global Police Track Human Traffickers in Online Crackdown (Infosecurity Magazine) Recently spotted Trinity ransomware spurs federal warning to healthcare industry (The Record) Qualcomm patches high-severity zero-day exploited in attacks (Bleeping Computer) ADT says hacker stole encrypted internal employee data after compromising business partner (The Record) North Korean Hackers Employ PowerShell-Based Malware With Serious Evasion Techniques (Cyber Security News) ‘Godfather of AI’ shares Nobel Prize in physics for work on machine learning (CNN) Share your feedback. We want to ensure that you are getting the most out of the podcast. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey as we continually work to improve the show.  Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here’s our media kit. Contact us at [email protected] to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices