Central Maine Healthcare posted a notice on its Facebook page today: On June 1, 2025, technicians monitoring the information systems at Central Maine Healthcare identified unusual activity within the system’s computer software. In response, they immediately secured and shut off all information technology applications and hardware, including network servers and phone systems. Central Maine Medical…
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to phishing campaigns that impersonate popular brands and trick targets into calling phone numbers operated by threat actors. “A significant portion of email threats with PDF payloads persuade victims to call adversary-controlled phone numbers, displaying another popular social engineering technique known as Telephone-Oriented Attack Delivery (TOAD
The U.S. Treasury Department has announced that it’s removing sanctions against Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer service that has been accused of aiding the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group to launder their ill-gotten proceeds. “Based on the Administration’s review of the novel legal and policy issues raised by use of financial sanctions against financial and commercial…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform called AkiraBot that’s used to spam website chats, comment sections, and contact forms to promote dubious search engine optimization (SEO) services such as Akira and ServicewrapGO. “AkiraBot has targeted more than 400,000 websites and successfully spammed at least 80,000 websites since September
Stefanie Schappert reports: The Qilin ransomware group said it is responsible for the February 10th hack of a prestigious cancer treatment center in Japan, exposing the sensitive health information of 300,000 patients and leaving its hospital system “unusable.” The Utsunomiya Central Clinic (UCC) cancer treatment center first alerted the public to the ransomware attack on…
Jim Ruble writes: In January 2021, a nationwide mail-order pharmacy located in Massachusetts experienced a data breach. The pharmacy discovered the breach in May 2021 and investigated to determine its scope. Personally identifiable information (PII), including names and Social Security numbers for more than 75,000 customers, was breached. In February 2022, 9 months after the…
The US government shared exploit chains, IOCs and post-incident forensics data to help network defenders hunt for signs of Chinese hacking gangs. The post FBI/CISA Share Details on Ivanti Exploits Chains: What Network Defenders Need to Know appeared first on SecurityWeek.
