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Splunk under attack, General Intuition's $300M, Texas ID breach - June 19, 2026

A critical Splunk flaw under active attack, a two-billion-dollar bet on world models, a Texas breach exposing three million IDs, a major takedown of the SocGholish malware network, and Interpol's forty-billion-dollar measure of Asian scam compounds.

Chapters

  1. Intro

  2. Critical Splunk flaw is under active attack

    https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/19/splunk-vulnerability-cve-2026-20253-exploited/

  3. General Intuition raises 300 million for world models

    https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/general-intuition-in-talks-to-raise-300m-at-around-2b-valuation/

  4. Texas breach exposes three million IDs

    https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/texas-government-data-breach-allowed-hackers-to-steal-3-million-drivers-licenses-and-passports/

  5. Simon Willison launches Datasette Apps

    https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/datasette-apps/

  6. Operation Endgame dismantles SocGholish

    https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/OperationEndgame4

  7. Defense and AI agents headline YC Demo Day

    https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/the-11-standout-startups-from-ycs-demo-day-according-to-vcs/

  8. Accenture makes a 4 billion dollar OT security push

    https://www.securityweek.com/accenture-to-acquire-majority-stake-in-dragos-all-of-runzero-netrise-in-4-1-billion-ot-cybersecurity-push/

  9. Interpol pegs Asian scam networks at 40 billion a year

    https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/19/interpol-asia-cybercrime-trends-report/

  10. Containerd patches five flaws beneath Kubernetes

    https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/970

  11. Sign-off

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