Sophos AI Assistant: Accelerating security operations with GenAI

It sounds like yet another K-12 school district has fallen prey to a cyberattack that it never successfully detected or thwarted quickly.  SuspectFile reports: The Fowler Elementary School District, located in Phoenix, Arizona, has reportedly fallen victim to a cyberattack involving what may be a substantial volume of sensitive data. The incident was claimed by…

In January 2025, cybersecurity experts at Wiz Research found that Chinese AI specialist DeepSeek had suffered a data leak, putting more than 1 million sensitive log streams at risk. According to the Wiz Research team, they identified a publicly accessible ClickHouse database belonging to DeepSeek. This allowed “full control over database operations, including the ability…

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw impacting the Service Finder WordPress theme that makes it possible to gain unauthorized access to any account, including administrators, and take control of susceptible sites. The authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-5947 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects the Service Finder Bookings, a WordPress plugin bundled with the

Heads up to entities doing business in California: your breach notification obligations are changing.  Joseph Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis explains: Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed SB 446 into law, introducing significant changes to California’s data breach notification requirements. The bill establishes deadlines for notifying consumers and the state’s Attorney General when personal information of California residents has been……

HHS OCR has settled another enforcement action involving the HIPAA Security Rule. From their press release yesterday, it sounds like an insider wrongdoing case. In its formal resolution agreement, the government states that on October 23, 2018, OCR received a complaint alleging that on October 8, 2018, an unknown third party accessed her printed and…

Alexander Koskey, Madison McMahan, and Matthew White of Baker Donelson write: A recent decision from the Federal Court of Australia in McClure v.  Medibank Private Limited [2025] FCA 167 underscores just how easily privilege can be lost. While McClure was decided under Australian law, the court’s reasoning closely aligns with a series of U.S. cases that have…