US private equity firms targeted by hackers.

This weekly briefing reports that cybercriminal groups (aliases Redact, Pink, Falcon, Helix) ran a large social‑engineering campaign targeting employees at major US financial and corporate firms—using phone impersonation, spoofed helpdesk numbers, over 72 malicious subdomains tailored to targets and traps for more than 200 companies—to carry out ransom‑based extortion; it also covers growing local pushback against Flock Safety’s license‑plate cameras on privacy grounds and notes other items including North Korean use of AI for cyberattacks, a major court ruling against Meta, and increased New York funding for water system cybersecurity.