Dave Muoio reports: The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case on whether a Federally Qualified Health Center is immune from liability over a former patient’s stolen personally identifying information (PII). The class-action lawsuit stemmed from a patient who received care and provided that information to Sandhills Medical Foundation, an FQHC, in 2018. The…
Seen at Wilmer Hale: One of the main risks for a company in the event of a data breach is the threat of litigation. Data breach litigation continued to proliferate in 2024, as it has in prior years. In the past year, plaintiffs continued to seek relief following data breaches under state common-law doctrines, and…
Overview of the PlayPraetor Masquerading Party Variants CTM360 has now identified a much larger extent of the ongoing Play Praetor campaign. What started with 6000+ URLs of a very specific banking attack has now grown to 16,000+ with multiple variants. This research is ongoing, and much more is expected to be discovered in the coming…
The threat actor known as EncryptHub exploited a recently-patched security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows as a zero-day to deliver a wide range of malware families, including backdoors and information stealers such as Rhadamanthys and StealC. “In this attack, the threat actor manipulates .msc files and the Multilingual User Interface Path (MUIPath) to download and execute…
New research shows that over 4 million systems on the internet, including VPN servers and home routers, are vulnerable to attacks due to tunneling protocol flaws. The post Millions of Internet Hosts Vulnerable to Attacks Due to Tunneling Protocol Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Details have emerged about three now-patched security vulnerabilities in Dynamics 365 and Power Apps Web API that could result in data exposure. The flaws, discovered by Melbourne-based cybersecurity company Stratus Security, have been addressed as of May 2024. Two of the three shortcomings reside in Power Platform’s OData Web API Filter, while the third vulnerability…
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an Android malware campaign that leverages Microsoft’s .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) framework to create bogus banking and social media apps targeting Indian and Chinese-speaking users. “These threats disguise themselves as legitimate apps, targeting users to steal sensitive information,” McAfee Labs researcher Dexter Shin said. .NET
