cybersecurityFriday, June 19, 2026
State-backed threats dominate today's cybersecurity news, from the G7's formal condemnation of North Korean cybercrime to the UK's NCSC revealing that 75% of critical infrastructure attacks are state-linked. Meanwhile, the industry's consolidation continues: Databricks acquires Panther Labs to compete with Splunk and CrowdStrike.
Two pieces today put the scale of state-backed cyber activity in stark relief, from diplomatic warnings to raw statistics.
G7 leaders issued a joint statement at the Évian summit calling for coordinated action against North Korean cryptocurrency thefts, which stole at least $2 billion in 2025 and fund weapons programs.
The NCSC's Richard Horne disclosed that roughly three-quarters of over 200 cyber incidents affecting UK critical national infrastructure in the past year are tied to hostile state actors.
Acquisitions and product launches show how vendors are jockeying for position in detection and response.
Databricks is acquiring Panther Labs, a security data platform last valued at $1.4 billion, to bolster its security analytics against Splunk and CrowdStrike.
eSentire's Atlas Preempt combines AI-driven continuous penetration testing with its MDR service, feeding exploitable exposures directly into 24/7 monitoring.
Salesforce disabled the Klue Battlecards integration after an extortion group named Icarus abused OAuth tokens to access customer data, including from Huntress.
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