Researcher Jeremiah Fowler recently discovered an unsecured database with protected health information (PHI) linked to Atrium Health in North Carolina. As reported at WebsitePlanet, there were 21,344 records with a total size of 6.99 GB. The database appeared to be an FTP storage database. Fowler reports: The PDF documents’ metadata indicated that these were “Software…
Ransomware has evolved into a deceptive, highly coordinated and dangerously sophisticated threat capable of crippling organizations of any size. Cybercriminals now exploit even legitimate IT tools to infiltrate networks and launch ransomware attacks. In a chilling example, Microsoft recently disclosed how threat actors misused its Quick Assist remote assistance tool to deploy the destructive
Amber DaSilva reports: If you own a modern Subaru, chances are you’ve heard of Starlink — the company’s connected services suite, which lets you control your car through an app or call roadside assistance to your location. That system, though, has other functionality that you might not know: Storing your car’s location history for the last year, and making that…
Nicola Mawson reports: Cell C, South Africa’s fourth largest mobile network operator, said on Wednesday morning that RansomHouse had unlawfully disclosed data after a security breach for which RansomHouse is claiming responsibility. The operator, with 7.7 million subscribers as of February, was attacked in early November 2024 and RansomHouse acquired 2TB of data, which has been corroborated…
HCF Management manages a variety of healthcare facilities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, including assisted living, rehabilitation services, long-term care, and hospice services. They are a for-profit organization. On October 29, 2024, RansomHub added HCF Inc. to its leak site with a claim that they had exfiltrated 250 GB of files. Their listing did not specifically…
A newly disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting OttoKit (formerly SureTriggers) has come under active exploitation within a few hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-3102 (CVSS score: 8.1), is an authorization bypass bug that could permit an attacker to create administrator accounts under certain conditions and take control of susceptible websites. “The
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has shed light on a new malware called RESURGE that has been deployed as part of exploitation activity targeting a now-patched security flaw in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances. “RESURGE contains capabilities of the SPAWNCHIMERA malware variant, including surviving reboots; however, RESURGE contains distinctive commands that
