Keenan & Associates is a benefits consulting and insurance brokerage provider in California, providing services to several sectors, including healthcare entities and educational facilities. Between August 21, 2023 and August 27, 2023, an unauthorized user accessed information relating to certain of Keenan’s customers, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, driver’s license…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a supply chain attack targeting a Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension called Ethcode that has been installed a little over 6,000 times. The compromise, per ReversingLabs, occurred via a GitHub pull request that was opened by a user named Airez299 on June 17, 2025. First released by 7finney in…
Your employees didn’t mean to expose sensitive data. They just wanted to move faster. So they used ChatGPT to summarize a deal. Uploaded a spreadsheet to an AI-enhanced tool. Integrated a chatbot into Salesforce. No big deal—until it is. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Most security teams are already behind in detecting how…
A threat actor with suspected ties to India has been observed targeting a European foreign affairs ministry with malware capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised hosts. The activity has been attributed by Trellix Advanced Research Center to an advanced persistent threat (APT) group called DoNot Team, which is also known as APT-C-35, Mint Tempest,…
As organizations plan for 2026, cybersecurity predictions are everywhere. Yet many strategies are still shaped by headlines and speculation rather than evidence. The real challenge isn’t a lack of forecasts—it’s identifying which predictions reflect real, emerging risks and which can safely be ignored. An upcoming webinar hosted by Bitdefender aims to cut through the noise…
In 2025, navigating the digital seas still felt like a matter of direction. Organizations charted routes, watched the horizon, and adjusted course to reach safe harbors of resilience, trust, and compliance. In 2026, the seas are no longer calm between storms. Cybersecurity now unfolds in a state of continuous atmospheric instability: AI-driven threats that adapt in…
Divya reports: A security vulnerability has been discovered in the popular 7-Zip file compression utility that could allow attackers to write arbitrary files to victim systems and potentially execute malicious code. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-55188, affects all versions of 7-Zip prior to the recently released version 25.01 and stems from improper handling of symbolic links……
