After the Medusa gang reportedly demanded a $2 million ransom from UK healthcare and community services provider HCRG Care Group, HCRG confirmed they had a breach and said they were investigating. But they did not confirm that patient data and employee was affected and they did not confirm that files had been encrypted. On February…
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Cisco has released patches for three vulnerabilities, including a critical privilege escalation bug and a DoS flaw for which exploit code exists. The post Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerability in Meeting Management appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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RTHK reports: The government office responsible for providing insolvency services has issued an apology after magnetic tapes containing information of about 76,000 people went missing. However, it stressed chances of a data leak is “extremely low”. The Official Receiver’s Office revealed on Monday that seven magnetic backup tapes were lost while being delivered from Immigration…
Ransomware isn’t slowing down—it’s getting smarter. Encryption, designed to keep our online lives secure, is now being weaponized by cybercriminals to hide malware, steal data, and avoid detection.The result? A 10.3% surge in encrypted attacks over the past year and some of the most shocking ransom payouts in history, including a $75 million ransom in…
A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting the open-source Langflow platform has been added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-3248, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. “Langflow contains a…
