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Here we go again?  Lara Pearce reports: Popular travel website Booking.com has warned customers that their personal information including booking details and names may have been accessed by an “unauthorised third party”. Booking.com is one of the largest digital travel companies globally, with more than 28 million accommodation listings worldwide. The company sent emails to some of its Australian……

Joe Tidy reports: Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games has been targeted for a second time in three years by hackers. The data breach affecting the gaming giant was reported by cybersecurity news outlets on Saturday, after a group of hackers claimed responsibility for the hack. In posts viewed by outlets, the criminals said they……

Spring Lake Park Today reports: Spring Lake Park Schools in Minnesota were forced to close on Monday due to a suspected ransomware attack that disrupted the district’s computer systems. Local authorities are investigating the cybersecurity incident, which caused the abrupt shutdown of all schools in the district as a precautionary measure. … According to officials,……

The North Korean hacking group tracked as APT37 (aka ScarCruft) has been attributed to a fresh multi-stage, social engineering campaign in which threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the trust-building exercise into a delivery channel for a remote access trojan called RokRAT. “The threat actor used…

OpenAI revealed a GitHub Actions workflow used to sign its macOS apps, which downloaded the malicious Axios library on March 31, but noted that no user data or internal system was compromised. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are taking steps to protect the process that certifies our macOS applications are legitimate OpenAI apps,” OpenAI said in a…

Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621, carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to run malicious code on affected installations. It has been described…

Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00 UTC, with

Yesterday, Bryan Lambert reported:  Health care providers at Brockton Hospital are preparing to work off paper, not computers, for the next two weeks as the health care hub deals with an ongoing cybersecurity incident. The cybersecurity incident took many electronic services at Brockton Hospital offline on Monday and forced ambulances to be diverted. On Thursday,……

Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after the two firms merged in July 2023

Jones Day wasn’t the only big law firm to recently fall prey to threat actors variously known as Silent Ransom Group, Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, or UNC3753. DataBreaches will refer to them as the Silent Ransom Group (“SRG”).* In January, SRG gained access to the law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (“Orrick”). In……