Arielle Waldman reports: Opposition is building as industry organizations weigh in on the public comment period for proposed changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. In January 2025, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced its proposed update to HIPAA, intended to strengthen cybersecurity in light of…
On February 17, DataBreaches reported that the RansomHub ransomware group claimed responsibility for an attack on the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. RansomHub claimed to have “temporarily locked” the tribe’s infrastructure and to have acquired 119 GB of files (501, 211 files). The post included statements by RansomHub as seen on their dark…
The Threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to a new Android malware as part of highly targeted cyber attacks. The artifacts in question, named Tanzeem (meaning “organization” in Urdu) and Tanzeem Update, were spotted in October and December 2024 by cybersecurity company Cyfirma. The apps in question have been found to incorporate…
Cybersecurity agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States have published a joint advisory about the risks associated with a technique called fast flux that has been adopted by threat actors to obscure a command-and-control (C2) channel. “‘Fast flux’ is a technique used to obfuscate the locations of malicious servers through rapidly changing…
Amazon’s threat intelligence team has disclosed details of a “years-long” Russian state-sponsored campaign that targeted Western critical infrastructure between 2021 and 2025. Targets of the campaign included energy sector organizations across Western nations, critical infrastructure providers in North America and Europe, and entities with cloud-hosted network infrastructure. The activity has
Martin Matishak reports: A deal to reopen the U.S. government would also renew an expired cybersecurity information sharing law until the end of January. The Senate on Sunday advanced legislation to end a weeks-long shutdown stalemate that includes a provision to reauthorize the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act through January 30. The law, which incentivizes……
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