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Cyberattack at French hospital exposes health data of 750,000 patients
2024-11-21 02:20

A data breach at an unnamed French hospital exposed the medical records of 750,000 patients after a threat actor gained access to its electronic patient record system. [...]

Prompt Injection Defenses Against LLM Cyberattacks
2024-11-07 16:13

Interesting research: “Hacking Back the AI-Hacker: Prompt Injection as a Defense Against LLM-driven Cyberattacks“: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being harnessed to automate...

Washington courts' systems offline following weekend cyberattack
2024-11-06 17:28

​​Court systems across Washington state have been down since Sunday when officials said "unauthorized activity" was detected on their networks. [...]

Change Healthcare Cyberattack Exposed Data of Over 100 Million People
2024-10-25 18:37

Personal information from one-third of Americans could have been affected in the $22 million ransomware attack, which has been attributed to the BlackCat gang.

U.S. and Allies Warn of Iranian Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure in Year-Long Campaign
2024-10-18 11:00

Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. have warned about a year-long campaign undertaken by Iranian cyber actors to infiltrate critical infrastructure...

The role of compromised cyber-physical devices in modern cyberattacks
2024-10-17 08:38

Cyber-physical devices are increasingly getting compromised and leveraged by criminal groups and state-sponsored threat actors. Fyodor Yarochkin, Senior Threat Solution Architect with Trend Micro,...

Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS
2024-10-10 01:33

31M folks' usernames, email addresses, salted-encrypted passwords now out there The Internet Archive had a bad day on the infosec front, after being DDoSed and having had its user account data...

Recent Dr.Web cyberattack claimed by pro-Ukrainian hacktivists
2024-10-09 15:53

A group of pro-Ukrainian hacktivists has claimed responsibility for the September breach of Russian security company Doctor Web (Dr.Web). [...]

Cyberattack Group 'Awaken Likho' Targets Russian Government with Advanced Tools
2024-10-08 11:17

Russian government agencies and industrial entities are the target of an ongoing activity cluster dubbed Awaken Likho. "The attackers now prefer using the agent for the legitimate MeshCentral...

American Water shuts down systems after cyberattack
2024-10-08 10:05

American Water, the largest water and wastewater utility company in the US, has shut down some of its systems following a cyberattack. While the company confirmed that none of its water or...