Nolan Keegan reports: Hackers are increasingly treating school districts like easy ATMs for personal data, and Bronx families are squarely in the crosshairs. A recent Turn To Tara segment on News 12 New York spotlighted a sharp jump in cyberattacks on schools and highlighted warnings from Check Point security analysts about exposed Social Security numbers,…
Yasmeen Hamadeh reports: When it rains, it pours—at least that’s the case for Mike Waltz and the country’s top national security officials this week. After President Donald Trump’s national security adviser accidentally added a prominent journalist to a private Signal chat with more than a dozen top government officials, it emerged that he had made…
HHS OCR announced another settlement that is their ninth ransomware investigation and their third settlement as part of their Risk Analysis Initiative. This one stems from a breach by VPN Solutions that was previously reported on this site: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a…
There is an update to the ransomware attack involving DaVita Dialysis first reported in April. According to DaVita’s disclosures this month, unauthorized access to its servers began on March 24, 2025 and continued until April 12, 2025, when they were able to kick the attacker out and keep them out. The incident was first reported…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet loader called Aeternum C2 that uses a blockchain-based command-and-control (C2) infrastructure to make it resilient to takedown efforts. “Instead of relying on traditional servers or domains for command-and-control, Aeternum stores its instructions on the public Polygon blockchain,” Qrator Labs said in a report shared with The
A China-linked threat actor has been attributed to a cyber attack targeting an U.S. non-profit organization with an aim to establish long-term persistence, as part of broader activity aimed at U.S. entities that are linked to or involved in policy issues. The organization, according to a report from Broadcom’s Symantec and Carbon Black teams, is…
Peter Williams, 39, an Australian national, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today in connection with selling his employer’s trade secrets to a Russian cyber-tools broker, the Justice Department announced today. Williams pleaded to two counts of theft of trade secrets. The material, stolen over a three-year period from the U.S. defense contractor where he……
