Martin Fornusek reports: Russian-linked hackers targeted U.K. Defense Ministry staff in an espionage operation while posing as journalists, Sky News reported on May 29, citing the British government. The cyber attack was detected and thwarted, the government said. Speaking to reporters at a government facility where a team had disrupted the Russian-backed operation, U.K. Defense Minister John Healey revealed the…
SuspectFile reports: A severe blow to Argentina’s public healthcare system has been dealt by the ransomware group Medusa, which, in recent days, through one of its affiliates, carried out a significant attack on the IT networks of the Hospital de Alta Complejidad El Cruce “Néstor Kirchner” (Hospital El Cruce), located in Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three security flaws in Planet Technology’s WGS-804HPT industrial switches that could be chained to achieve pre-authentication remote code execution on susceptible devices. “These switches are widely used in building and home automation systems for a variety of networking applications,” Claroty’s Tomer Goldschmidt said in a Thursday report. “An attacker
Google releases OSV-SCALIBR, an open source library for software composition analysis and file system scanning. The post Google Releases Open Source Library for Software Composition Analysis appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This issue of the Counter Threat Unit’s high-level bimonthly report discusses noteworthy updates in the threat landscape during March and April
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious machine learning (ML) models on Hugging Face that leveraged an unusual technique of “broken” pickle files to evade detection. “The pickle files extracted from the mentioned PyTorch archives revealed the malicious Python content at the beginning of the file,” ReversingLabs researcher Karlo Zanki said in a report shared with…
Substance abuse treatment provider BayMark Health Services says patient personal information was compromised in a data breach. The post Major Addiction Treatment Firm BayMark Confirms Ransomware Attack Caused Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
