📋 ADVISORIES
- Bipartisan bills would direct CISA to boost cyber defenses for biotech and biological data Bipartisan lawmakers introduced two bills directing DHS and CISA to protect biotechnology, biomanufacturing and biological data as critical infrastructure.
- Applies to the biotech, biomanufacturing and genomic data sectors, which currently cut across existing critical infrastructure sectors without their own designation.
- The Protecting Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing as Critical Infrastructure Act would direct DHS to plan protections and update the National Infrastructure Protection Plan with biotech input.
- The Protecting Biological Data Act would cover systems handling genomic sequences and biometric data, add CISA joint exercises and new biometric data security personnel.
- Sponsors include Sens. Todd Young and Maggie Hassan and Reps. Ro Khanna, Stephanie Bice and Scott Peters, members of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology.
- The push follows recent cyberattacks disclosed by biotech giants Boston Scientific and Amgen. 📎 Coverage: cyberscoop.com · 👁 via CyberScoop
🔓 CVEs & KEV
- CVE-2026-61741 — http4s http4s-scala-xml — CVSS 9.3 — Critical XXE in http4s-scala-xml Allows File Disclosure and SSRF