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CISA gives federal agencies one year to rip out end-of-life devices
The Record reports a federal mandate that is likely to give a lot of agencies major headaches in compliance: Federal civilian agencies have been ordered to remove end-of-life devices within 12 months due to widespread exploitation campaigns by sophisticated hackers. The U.S. cyber defense agency issued an operational directive on February 5 mandating federal agencies to “remove […]
SoundCloud data breach exposes 29.8 million user accounts
Fox News reports: Hackers have exposed personal and contact information tied to SoundCloud accounts, with data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned reporting impacts to approximately 29.8 million users. The breach hit one of the world’s largest audio platforms and left many users locked out with error messages before the company confirmed the incident. SoundCloud […]
Vendors to be(a)ware of: Conduent Business Solutions
Down, down, down go Conduent’s stock prices. Breaches by third-party vendors or business associates account for the majority of patient records breached in incidents. The 2025 Breach Barometer report, which includes more than HIPAA-covered entities, found that 77% of breached patient records resulted from business associate breaches. Some business associate breaches affect millions of patients […]
Notepad++ hijacked by suspected state-sponsored hackers
The Record reports: A software update mechanism for the popular text editor Notepad++ was hijacked by suspected Chinese state-sponsored hackers, allowing them to silently redirect some users to malicious update servers, the project’s developers announced on Monday. In a security update posted on the project’s website, the development team said the attack did not exploit a flaw […]
Vendor breaches continue to pose threat to patient privacy
Updates to two business associate breaches reveal that millions of patients have been impacted by third-part breaches, with Healthcare Interactive’s breach affecting 3 million patients and TriZetto Provider Solutions’s breach reportedly affecting another 700,000 patients. Healthcare Interactive Healthcare Interactive (“HCIactive”) is a Maryland-based provider of AI-powered software solutions for insurance enrollment and benefits administration. In […]
ShinyHunters has been more active. Google reports on the activity.
Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has been tracking the expansion of ShinyHunters-branded SaaS data theft. In a new blog post, they write: Mandiant has identified an expansion in threat activity that uses tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) consistent with prior ShinyHunters-branded extortion operations. These operations primarily leverage sophisticated voice phishing (vishing) and victim-branded credential harvesting […]
Conduent warns of further financial fallout from cyberattack
Cybersecurity Dive reports: Conduent said it may face additional financial risks related to a January 2025 attack that impacted a number of state governments and other organizations. The attack at the New Jersey-based payments contractor led to data breaches across a number of organizations, including state government agencies and insurance providers. In the state of Wisconsin, […]
Trump files $10B lawsuit against IRS over alleged tax return leaks to major news outlets
Fox News reports: President Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, accusing the agency of unlawfully leaking his confidential tax returns in a politically motivated violation of federal privacy laws. A spokesman for Trump’s legal team told Fox News “a rogue, politically motivated” IRS employee disclosed private and confidential tax information involving Trump, his family […]