Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years

Infosec in brief: a roundup describing multiple security issues — a teenager convicted of hundreds of swatting calls, active exploitation of high-severity vulnerabilities in Metabase, Palo Alto Expedition, and D-Link NAS devices, a Halliburton data-exfiltration incident costing $35M, and trends in online scams and policy concerns. The newsletter highlights active exploitation, notable financial impact, and emergent attacker tactics that organizations should monitor and mitigate.