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Abraham Gutman reports: Comcast is one step closer to settling 24 class action lawsuits over a 2023 data breach that potentially impacted over 30 million former and current customers. A $117.5 million settlement agreement received preliminary approval from a federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania last week. Impacted customers would be able to……

Cybersecurity never stops—and neither do hackers. While you wrapped up last week, new attacks were already underway. From hidden software bugs to massive DDoS attacks and new ransomware tricks, this week’s roundup gives you the biggest security moves to know. Whether you’re protecting key systems or locking down cloud apps, these are the updates you…

Internet service providers (ISPs) in China and the West Coast of the United States have become the target of a mass exploitation campaign that deploys information stealers and cryptocurrency miners on compromised hosts. The findings come from the Splunk Threat Research Team, which said the activity also led to the delivery of various binaries that…

American Addiction Centers says the personal information of more than 422,000 people was stolen in a data breach. The post American Addiction Centers Data Breach Impacts 422,000 People appeared first on SecurityWeek.

A.J. Vicens and Raphael Satter report:  A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported, according to a Reuters review, potentially raising the stakes of a breach that has already drawn…

State-sponsored threat actors from China used artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by Anthropic to orchestrate automated cyber attacks as part of a “highly sophisticated espionage campaign” in mid-September 2025. “The attackers used AI’s ‘agentic’ capabilities to an unprecedented degree – using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyber attacks themselves,” the…