Security Week reports: Swedish state-owned power grid operator Svenska kraftnät on Monday confirmed that it fell victim to a cyberattack that resulted in a data breach. The incident, the company said, was discovered on Saturday and affected an isolated, external file transfer solution, but not the power grid. The country’s electricity supply has not been affected […]
The Cyber Security Hub Newsletter reports: British retail giant Marks & Spencer (M&S) has officially ended its long-standing partnership with Indian IT services leader Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) after suffering one of the most damaging cyberattacks in its history. The high-profile breach, which occurred earlier this year, is estimated to have cost the company around […]
Cyber Press reports: Cisco Talos has identified a sophisticated technique employed by the Qilin ransomware group, in which threat actors leverage legitimate Windows utilities, specifically MSPaint and Notepad, to inspect and locate high-sensitivity information across compromised networks manually. […] During the credential access and exfiltration phase, attackers execute a comprehensive credential-harvesting workflow using tools such […]
HackRead reports: Today, the Everest ransomware group published listings for two new victims, Dublin Airport and Air Arabia, on its dark web leak site. This announcement comes just days after the group claimed responsibility for breaching AT&T Careers, alleging the theft of 576,000 records containing personal details of applicants and employees. Like the AT&T listing, both […]
TechTarget reports: Integris Health settled a class action data breach lawsuit to resolve claims alleging that it failed to protect the sensitive data of its patients. The data breach in question occurred in November 2023, impacting nearly 2.4 million individuals, including 224,000 minors. The Oklahoma-based health system, which operates 16 hospitals and other healthcare facilities throughout the […]
OpenText released the findings of its fourth annual Global Ransomware Survey. Read the full press release or download the full report.
Bank Info Security reports: Montana state regulators are investigating a data breach affecting 462,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana members involving one of the health insurer’s third-party services providers – and they want to know why nearly 10 months have gone by without notifying the breach victims. It took nearly four months for the […]
HackRead reports: The Medusa ransomware group has leaked 186.36 GB of compressed data it claimed to have stolen from Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company. According to Hackread.com’s earlier report, the group stated that it breached Comcast in late September 2025 and obtained a total of 834 GB of data. The leaked 186 GB […]
The Record reports: The cyberattack that disrupted production at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) for more than a month is estimated to have cost the British economy £1.9 billion ($2.5 billion), according to a monitoring group. An analysis by the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC), a nonprofit that aims to examine the cost of cyber incidents, said […]
John Bolton Indictment Provides Interesting Details About Hack of His AOL Account and Extortion Attempt
Kim Zetter writes: The investigation into former national security advisor John Bolton’s handling of classified material stemmed in part from an admission Bolton made to the FBI in July 2021 that hackers – believed to be from Iran – had breached his private AOL email account and tried to extort him over classified information contained […]