Genoa Community Hospital, aka Genoa Medical Facilities (“Genoa“) in Nebraska has issued a press release concerning a breach involving patient data. According to the release, in March 2025, Genoa learned of unusual activity involving one employee email account. The release does not indicate when the breach actually occurred or how the attacker gained access to…
Theresa Defino reports: Covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) might be forgiven if the most recent HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) HIPAA enforcement action evoked little more than a yawn. Yes, the $175,000 payment isn’t a particularly large amount, and the sole alleged violation is a retread. Actually, it’s the 10th in OCR’s……
The threat actor known as EncryptHub exploited a recently-patched security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows as a zero-day to deliver a wide range of malware families, including backdoors and information stealers such as Rhadamanthys and StealC. “In this attack, the threat actor manipulates .msc files and the Multilingual User Interface Path (MUIPath) to download and execute…
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has revealed that unknown threat actors leveraged its Claude chatbot for an “influence-as-a-service” operation to engage with authentic accounts across Facebook and X. The sophisticated activity, branded as financially-motivated, is said to have used its AI tool to orchestrate 100 distinct persons on the two social media platforms, creating a
Google on Tuesday rolled out fixes for six security issues in its Chrome web browser, including one that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-6558 (CVSS score: 8.8), which has been described as an incorrect validation of untrusted input in the browser’s ANGLE and GPU components. “Insufficient…
As the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve at a rapid pace, new research has found how techniques that render the Model Context Protocol (MCP) susceptible to prompt injection attacks could be used to develop security tooling or identify malicious tools, according to a new report from Tenable. MCP, launched by Anthropic in…
Endless Mountains Health Systems (EMHS) in Pennsylvania has been dealing with a cyberattack that has impacted its operations and some of its systems. They have not stated whether it is a ransomware incident or not. EMHS announced the attack on March 5 on its website, but had already been noting problems on its Facebook page…
