THE DAILY BRIEF

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received 1.5 million reports of AI-related child sexual abuse material in 2025, a 22x increase from 67,000 reports in 2024, exposing a critical gap between AI capability and child safety safeguards.

► This trend forces tech companies to urgently implement content detection systems or face regulatory backlash and criminal liability.

An aggressive password-spraying campaign generated over 81 million login attempts against Microsoft 365 environments in a two-week period, exploiting weak credential practices across enterprise deployments.

► The scale signals that basic authentication remains the weakest link in enterprise security, even at cloud leaders.

Meta is developing a cloud infrastructure business to monetize excess AI computing capacity by selling access to AI compute power and models, following Bloomberg reporting and Trump administration approval of Anthropic's Fable 5 model to international customers.

► This shifts Meta from pure advertising into competing directly with AWS and Azure for enterprise AI workloads.

CISA issued an emergency directive ordering U.S. federal agencies to patch BlueHammer, a Microsoft Defender privilege escalation vulnerability being actively exploited as a zero-day.

► Zero-day exploits in security tools themselves are particularly destructive because defenders unknowingly deploy compromised protections.