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**CyberWire Daily roundup:** This briefing summarizes recent cybersecurity developments, highlighting reduced CISA staffing, a rise in ransomware attacks against industrial operations, risks from misconfigured AI, Operation DoppelBrand credential-theft campaigns targeting major firms, infostealers exfiltrating OpenClaw AI secrets, identity-abuse as a dominant initial access vector, password manager vulnerabilities, and arrests related to Phobos ransomware and accidental data exposure in the Netherlands.