Shawn Slaght reports: Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Grace Hession David found that a privacy breach involving an employee at the Dr. F.H. Wigmore Regional Hospital did take place. The decision found that a unit clerk in the emergency department inappropriately accessed their own health records as well as the records of 98 other people…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a high-severity flaw impacting the popular async-tar Rust library and its forks, including tokio-tar, that could result in remote code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-62518 (CVSS score: 8.1), has been codenamed TARmageddon by Edera, which discovered the issue in late August 2025. It impacts several
Why do SOC teams still drown in alerts even after spending big on security tools? False positives pile up, stealthy threats slip through, and critical incidents get buried in the noise. Top CISOs have realized the solution isn’t adding more and more tools to SOC workflows but giving analysts the speed and visibility they need…
The threat actor known as Water Saci is actively evolving its tactics, switching to a sophisticated, highly layered infection chain that uses HTML Application (HTA) files and PDFs to propagate via WhatsApp a worm that deploys a banking trojan in attacks targeting users in Brazil. The latest wave is characterized by the attackers shifting from…
SonicWall said it’s actively investigating reports to determine if there is a new zero-day vulnerability following reports of a spike in Akira ransomware actors in late July 2025. “Over the past 72 hours, there has been a notable increase in both internally and externally reported cyber incidents involving Gen 7 SonicWall firewalls where SSLVPN is…
Damien Bancal reports: US and European agencies have updated their joint warning on Akira: nearly 250 million dollars in ransom demands, a refined attack chain and a clear inheritance from the Conti gang. An updated advisory from US and European agencies, ransom demands estimated at nearly 250 million dollars, focused exploitation of VPNs and remote……
If the court continues issuing such injunctions, the Department of Telecommunications may need an entire department and staff just to respond to these situations. Should the responsibility be on the DoT, or is there a better way? Azdhan reports: The Bombay High Court has granted urgent ad-interim relief to Generali Central Life Insurance Company after the insurer……
