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Iran-linked hackers blamed for cyber-attack that shut down UK power plant
The Guardian reports: Hackers linked to Iran have been blamed for a cyber-attack that caused a British power plant to be temporarily shut down. The incident involved a small-scale energy generator, according to the UK government, which said that at no point was there a risk to the wider energy system. However, it marks an apparent escalation […]
Cognizant Alerts Customers To Potential Data Exposure Following Cyber Breach
IANS reports: IT services firm Cognizant has notified customers of a data breach that occurred on April 21, 2026, which may have exposed personal information, while stating that there is no evidence so far that the data has been misused, as per multiple reports. In a notification sent to affected individuals, the US-headquartered company said […]
500 Hosts, 1 TB and No Negotiation: Anubis Reveals Its Fairlife Attack
SuspectFile provides more details on the previously disclosed cyberattack affecting Coca-Cola’s subsidiary, Fairlife. One week. According to Anubis, that is all the time it allegedly needed to turn a vulnerability in a corporate VPN into full access to Fairlife’s IT infrastructure. One week to get in.One week to move through the network.One week, according to […]
Unlimited Technology Systems Data Breach Affects 3.8 Million Patients
On August 6, HIPAA Journal reported: On July 23, 2026, the HIPAA Journal reported on a data breach at Unlimited Technology Systems, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based provider of revenue cycle management and practice management software. At the time, the scale of the data breach had yet to be made public, but it has recently been confirmed […]
AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack
TechCrunch reports: Days after reporting an incident affecting a number of its customers, enterprise data giant Alation on Thursday confirmed a cyberattack. Alation makes data software that its enterprise customers use to search for files and data using natural language queries. In recent years, the company has expanded into AI, allowing customers to turn large amounts of […]
Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments
The Register reports: Researchers affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found that you can get payments out of certain expired contactless credit cards, a process detailed at the recent USENIX Security 2026 conference. Raja Hasnain Anwar, Gerard DeCunha, and Muhammad Taqi Raza describe their findings in a paper titled “Zombie Cards Back Online: Reviving Expired […]
#StopRansomware: Medusa Ransomware Update
In March 2025, CISA published an advisory on the Medusa ransomware gang. They have now updated it, noting: Medusa is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) variant first identified in June 2021. As of April 2026, Medusa developers and affiliates—referred to as “Medusa actors” in this advisory—have impacted over 500 victims from a variety of critical infrastructure sectors. […]
Huntsville Hospital, Cerner/Oracle Health named in new federal lawsuit over data breach
Fox54 in Alabama reports: A second proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed over the data breach that compromised patient information at Huntsville Hospital Health System, this time in federal court and against both the hospital system and its electronic records vendor. Crystal Mullins filed the complaint Aug. 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of […]