In February 2025, after the Medusa ransomware gang claimed responsibility for an attack on the UK healthcare provider HCRG Care Group, HCRG confirmed it had been breached but would only say it was investigating. While they remained silent, SuspectFile obtained and reported on data provided to them by Medusa. SuspectFiles‘s reporting made it clear that…
Mythos is real. I know a big chunk of the industry thinks it’s a marketing stunt, and I get why. I get it. But I’ve seen the findings, and they’re bad. These aren’t “whoops, this line right here is wrong, and that’s RCE.” They’re novel combinations of a few dozen issues out of thousands of…
Unknown threat actors have hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla to push a poisoned version containing a backdoor. The incident impacts Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35 for WordPress, per WordPress security company Patchstack. Smart Slider 3 is a popular WordPress slider plugin with more than 800,000 active installations across…
A cleanup month brings 63 patches… wait, no, 68… how about 61?
John Beauge reports: The man accused of downloading protected information of more than 1.2 million Geisinger Health System patients in 2023 will defend himself at his criminal trial. U.S. Middle District Judge Matthew W. Brann granted the motion of Max Vance to proceed pro se but assigned assistant public defender Gerald A. Lord as standby…
In a large-scale international investigation, the Amsterdam police, led by the Public Prosecution Service, and the American FBI have taken down the criminal proxy service Anyproxy. This service had been used by cybercriminals since 2004 to anonymously commit criminal acts, including phishing, ransomware attacks and data theft. Anyproxy has been used to shut down networks…
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled the domains associated with various online platforms linked to cybercrime such as Cracked, Nulled, Sellix, and StarkRDP. The effort has targeted the following domains – www.cracked.io www.nulled.to www.mysellix.io www.sellix.io www.starkrdp.io Visitors to these websites are now greeted by a seizure banner that says they were confiscated
