The State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2025
292 IT and cybersecurity leaders reveal the ransomware realities for healthcare establishments today.
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Four REvil ransomware members arrested in January 2022 were released by Russia on time served after they pleaded guilty to carding and malware distribution charges. As they confirmed, Andrey Bessonov, Mikhail Golovachuk, Roman Muromsky, and Dmitry Korotayev were involved in the Revil gang’s carding activities between October 2015 and January 2022, according…
Google on Tuesday revealed that it will no longer offer a standalone prompt for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser as part of its Privacy Sandbox initiative. “We’ve made the decision to maintain our current approach to offering users third-party cookie choice in Chrome, and will not be rolling out a new standalone prompt for…
Cisco has released software fixes to address a maximum-severity security flaw in its IOS XE Wireless Controller that could enable an unauthenticated, remote attacker to upload arbitrary files to a susceptible system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20188, has been rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. “This vulnerability is due to the presence of a…
Fortinet has released security updates to address a critical flaw impacting FortiClientEMS that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21643, has a CVSS rating of 9.1 out of a maximum of 10.0. “An improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’) vulnerability…
From 24 to 28 November 2025, Europol supported an action week conducted by law enforcement authorities from Switzerland and Germany in Zurich, Switzerland. The operation focused on taking down the illegal cryptocurrency mixing service ‘Cryptomixer’, which is suspected of facilitating cybercrime and money laundering. Three servers were seized in Switzerland, along with the cryptomixer.io domain…….
Hannah Weaver reports: The Superior Court of California for the County of San Joaquin announced Friday afternoon that it found an “unauthorized person” had gained access to the court’s computer network last year. That breach included individuals’ sensitive information, including Social Security, driver’s license and credit card numbers, the court said in a press release…….