Jan Vermeulen reports: Statistics South Africa has become the latest government entity to fall victim to a ransomware attack by the emerging cybercrime group known as XP95. The threat actors claim to have successfully breached the agency responsible for conducting South Africa’s census, as well as producing and disseminating other official statistics, like the Consumer…
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ransomware family called Osiris that targeted a major food service franchisee operator in Southeast Asia in November 2025. The attack leveraged a malicious driver called POORTRY as part of a known technique referred to as bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) to disarm security software, the Symantec…
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise for improving cyber defense and making the lives of security practitioners easier. It can help teams cut through alert fatigue, spot patterns faster, and bring a level of scale that human analysts alone can’t match. But realizing that potential depends on securing the systems that make it possible. Every…
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In May 2024, DataBreaches logged an incident on our worksheets that involved the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York. The incident had been reported to HHS as affecting 29,629 patients whose name, medical record number, date of birth, provider name, and laboratory test result had been exposed between Sept. 11, 2023, and March……
Mark Young & David Brazil of Covington and Burling write: On 15 January 2025, the European Commission published an action plan on the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers (the “Action Plan”). The Action Plan sets out a series of EU-level actions that are intended to better protect the healthcare sector from cyber threats. The publication of…
