Saskatoon children’s hospital nurse unlawfully snooped on records of 314 patients: privacy report

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Brandon Harder provides this morning’s reminder of the insider threat: Without legal authority, a nurse who worked at Saskatoon’s Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital snooped on the private medical records of 314 patients, according to a recent report. The report, dated April 23 and signed by Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Ronald J. Kruzeniski, states that…

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Ionut Arghire reports: A Chinese threat actor was seen disrupting the drone supply chain in multi-wave attacks against various organizations in Taiwan and South Korea, Trend Micro reports. Dubbed Earth Ammit and believed to be tied to Chinese APTs, the hacking group was seen launching two attack campaigns between 2023 and 2024, targeting organizations across…

OneClik Malware Targets Energy Sector Using Microsoft ClickOnce and Golang Backdoors

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Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new campaign dubbed OneClik that leverages Microsoft’s ClickOnce software deployment technology and bespoke Golang backdoors to compromise organizations within the energy, oil, and gas sectors. “The campaign exhibits characteristics aligned with Chinese-affiliated threat actors, though attribution remains cautious,” Trellix researchers Nico Paulo

Chinese APT41 Exploits Google Calendar for Malware Command-and-Control Operations

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Google on Wednesday disclosed that the Chinese state-sponsored threat actor known as APT41 leveraged a malware called TOUGHPROGRESS that uses Google Calendar for command-and-control (C2). The tech giant, which discovered the activity in late October 2024, said the malware was hosted on a compromised government website and was used to target multiple other government entities….

SonicWall Patches 3 Flaws in SMA 100 Devices Allowing Attackers to Run Code as Root

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Critical Ivanti Flaw Actively Exploited to Deploy TRAILBLAZE and BRUSHFIRE Malware

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Ivanti has disclosed details of a now-patched critical security vulnerability impacting its Connect Secure that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22457 (CVSS score: 9.0), concerns a case of a stack-based buffer overflow that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. “A stack-based buffer overflow in…