HHS Office for Civil Rights Settles HIPAA Security Rule Investigation; Northeast Radiology agrees to corrective action plan and $350,000 monetary penalty

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Over the past few years, DataBreaches has reported on a breach involving Northeast Radiology and its business associate, Alliance Healthcare Services. In March 2020, Northeast Radiology revealed its patient data was involved in a breach Alliance notified them about in January, 2020. TechCrunch had contacted Northeast Radiology about its unpatched PACS servers in 2019, but…

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Fortinet Urges FortiSwitch Upgrades to Patch Critical Admin Password Change Flaw

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Fortinet has released security updates to address a critical security flaw impacting FortiSwitch that could permit an attacker to make unauthorized password changes. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-48887, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of a maximum of 10.0. “An unverified password change vulnerability [CWE-620] in FortiSwitch GUI may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker…

A 9th Telecoms Firm Has Been Hit by a Massive Chinese Espionage Campaign, the White House Says

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A top White House official said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign. The post A 9th Telecoms Firm Has Been Hit by a Massive Chinese Espionage Campaign, the White House Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.

New FrigidStealer Malware Targets macOS Users via Fake Browser Updates

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Cybersecurity researchers are alerting to a new campaign that leverages web injects to deliver a new Apple macOS malware known as FrigidStealer. The activity has been attributed to a previously undocumented threat actor known as TA2727, with the information stealers for other platforms such as Windows (Lumma Stealer or DeerStealer) and Android (Marcher). TA2727 is…

Darcula Adds GenAI to Phishing Toolkit, Lowering the Barrier for Cybercriminals

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The threat actors behind the Darcula phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform have released new updates to their cybercrime suite with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities. “This addition lowers the technical barrier for creating phishing pages, enabling less tech-savvy criminals to deploy customized scams in minutes,” Netcraft said in a new report shared with The Hacker News. “

CoffeeLoader Uses GPU-Based Armoury Packer to Evade EDR and Antivirus Detection

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Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new sophisticated malware called CoffeeLoader that’s designed to download and execute secondary payloads. The malware, according to Zscaler ThreatLabz, shares behavioral similarities with another known malware loader known as SmokeLoader.  “The purpose of the malware is to download and execute second-stage payloads while evading