Vendor News, Healthcare, News
May 01, 2025
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Ctrl+Alt+Disaster: How Oracle techies ‘wrong click’ brought 45 out of 72 CHS hospitals to their knees for 5 days

The Economic Times reports: A software malfunction triggered by Oracle engineers led to a five-day outage at multiple Community Health Systems (CHS) hospitals last week, forcing several facilities to switch to paper records after losing access to their digital systems. The disruption began on 23 April during scheduled maintenance, when Oracle personnel mistakenly deleted storage […]

Data Breach News, News, Vendor News
April 30, 2025
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VeriSource now says February data breach impacts 4 million people

Bleeping Computer reports: Employee benefits administration firm VeriSource Services is warning that a data breach exposed the personal information of four million people.  VeriSource is a Texas-based employee benefits administration and HR outsourcing solutions provider with diverse clients across the U.S. The firm has begun data breach notifications to impacted individuals about a cybersecurity incident […]

Data Breach News, Malware Ransomware, News
April 29, 2025
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Marks & Spencer breach linked to Scattered Spider ransomware attack

Bleeping Computer reports: Ongoing outages at British retail giant Marks & Spencer are caused by a ransomware attack believed to be conducted by a hacking collective known as “Scattered Spider” BleepingComputer has learned from multiple sources. Marks & Spencer (M&S) is a British multinational retailer that employs 64,000 employees and sells various products, including clothing, food, […]

Malware Ransomware, Data Breach News, News
April 27, 2025
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DragonForce expands ransomware model with white-label branding scheme

Bleeping Computer reports: The ransomware scene is re-organizing, with one gang known as DragonForce working to gather other operations under a cartel-like structure. DragonForce is now incentivizing ransomware actors with a distributed affiliate branding model, providing other ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations a means to carry out their business without dealing with infrastructure maintenance cost and effort. […]

Commentaries and Analyses, Data Breach News, News
April 27, 2025
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FBI IC3, Verizon DBIR, Google M-Trends reports are out—here are key takeaways

Risky Biz News reports: There are a handful of seminal reports in the cybersecurity industry, and lo and behold, three of them were released on Wednesday. Mandiant’s team, now part of Google Cloud, released M-Trends, Verizon released its Data Breach Investigations Report (aka DBIR), and the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its yearly Internet Crime Report [PDF]. […]

Data Breach News, News
April 25, 2025
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Yale New Haven Health Notifying 5.5 Million of March Hack

BankInfoSecurity reports: Connecticut-based Yale New Haven Health System is notifying more than 5.5 million patients that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, could have been stolen in a March hack. The incident, which is among several other recent major health data hacks, ranks as the largest health data breach reported to federal regulator so […]

Malware Ransomware, News
April 24, 2025
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DOGE-Trolling Ransomware Hackers Demand $1 Trillion

Forbes reports: The same criminal group behind the DOGE Big Balls ransomware attack has just upped the ante. A newly updated ransom note is now using Elon Musk and DOGE references with a demand for, are you sitting down, one trillion dollars from victims. Although there is no doubt that ransomware threats should be taken very seriously, […]

Malware Ransomware, News
April 21, 2025
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Chinese Ghost Hackers Hit Hospitals And Factories In America And U.K.

Forbes reports: Now, a new threat intelligence report has revealed how financially motivated Chinese cybercriminals are targeting government offices, the energy sector, factories, financial services, and, yes, hospitals across the globe. However, North America and the U.K. have been most attacked by the Ghost ransomware hackers. According to a new report from Rebecca Harpur at […]