From Tehran to the Apple II.

CyberWire Daily provides a compact news roundup covering an alleged Israeli strike on Iran’s cyber warfare headquarters, the U.S. national cyber strategy release, DHS IT and cybersecurity leadership changes, reports of Velvet Tempest using ClickFix to deploy loaders and CastleRAT tied to Termite ransomware incidents, discovery of the ClipXDaemon Linux clipboard hijacker, the conviction in a large Ghanaian romance scam, concerns about government tracking via targeted advertising, a major insurance M&A note, and research finding vulnerabilities in legacy Apple II code; the episode also features an interview with ISC2 CISO Jon France discussing the 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study.