An update on the ransomware attack affecting the City of Coweta: the city manager has been through a ransomware attack before with another city, and reports that after they paid, they were reinfected weeks later, so Coweta will not be paying any ransom demands. Threat actors who don’t keep their word do spoil it for…
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed a high-severity vulnerability impacting PAN-OS software that could cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on susceptible devices. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-3393 (CVSS score: 8.7), impacts PAN-OS versions 10.X and 11.X, as well as Prisma Access running PAN-OS versions. It has been addressed in PAN-OS 10.1.14-h8, PAN-OS 10.2.10-h12, PAN-OS 11.1.5, PAN-OS
Ionut Arghire reports: Healthcare information technology company CareCloud is notifying at least 350,000 people that their information was stolen in a data breach. The incident involved an electronic health record environment within the CareCloud Health division, which was disrupted on March 16, 2026. CareCloud’s investigation determined that hackers accessed one of its AWS environments between……
Waqas reports: Meta has disclosed a security incident involving an Instagram account recovery tool after attackers used a flaw to send password reset links to email addresses that were not connected to the targeted accounts. According to a data breach notice filed with the Maine Attorney General’s Office, Meta Platforms said the issue affected 20,225 people in……
SonicWall has revealed that the recent spike in activity targeting its Gen 7 and newer firewalls with SSL VPN enabled is related to an older, now-patched bug and password reuse. “We now have high confidence that the recent SSL VPN activity is not connected to a zero-day vulnerability,” the company said. “Instead, there is a…
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new campaign in which the threat actors have published more than 67 GitHub repositories that claim to offer Python-based hacking tools, but deliver trojanized payloads instead. The activity, codenamed Banana Squad by ReversingLabs, is assessed to be a continuation of a rogue Python campaign that was identified in 2023 as…
The malicious ad tech purveyor known as VexTrio Viper has been observed developing several malicious apps that have been published on Apple and Google’s official app storefronts under the guise of seemingly useful applications. These apps masquerade as VPNs, device “monitoring” apps, RAM cleaners, dating services, and spam blockers, DNS threat intelligence firm Infoblox said…
