Prioritizing patching: A deep dive into frameworks and tools – Part 2: Alternative frameworks

Cybersecurity researchers have found that bad actors are continuing to have success by spoofing sender email addresses as part of various malspam campaigns. Faking the sender address of an email is widely seen as an attempt to make the digital missive more legitimate and get past security mechanisms that could otherwise flag it as malicious….

Ravie Lakshmanan reports: Microsoft on Sunday released security patches for an actively exploited security flaw in SharePoint and also disclosed details of another vulnerability that it said has been addressed with “more robust protections.” The tech giant acknowledged it’s “aware of active attacks targeting on-premises SharePoint Server customers by exploiting vulnerabilities partially addressed by the July Security Update.” CVE-2025-53770 (CVSS…

Mark Emem reports: A US accounting firm has agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle a class action lawsuit filed over a data breach. According to the settlement administrator’s portal, RINA Accountants & Advisors will set up a $400,000 settlement fund to compensate victims of the data security incident that occurred nearly four……

Russian companies have been targeted as part of a large-scale phishing campaign that’s designed to deliver a known malware called DarkWatchman. Targets of the attacks include entities in the media, tourism, finance and insurance, manufacturing, retail, energy, telecom, transport, and biotechnology sectors, Russian cybersecurity company F6 said. The activity is assessed to be the work…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Arkansas:   LITTLE ROCK—A Little Rock psychologist has been indicted for defrauding Medicare and Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Blue Cross) and creating fictitious records to conceal her wrongdoing. Krameelah Banks, 48, of Little Rock, faces twenty-three counts of wire fraud, seven counts of making false……

Endless Mountains Health Systems (EMHS) in Pennsylvania has been dealing with a cyberattack that has impacted its operations and some of its systems. They have not stated whether it is a ransomware incident or not. EMHS announced the attack on March 5 on its website, but had already been noting problems on its Facebook page…