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Crypto exchange Binance has paused trading after discovering unknown parties cracked one of its workers’ laptops and used it to make massive trades Late on Thursday, US time, the company used its social media feeds to report “Our teams are aware of reports of a potential security issue and are actively investigating.”…
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The Pentagon treats August freezer failures at US military bases as a suspected hack and is working with French investigators after a supermarket attack. The Pentagon is investigating freezer failures that spoiled food at US military bases in August as a suspected cyberattack, according to four officials who spoke to…
A company working on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security sought to cut off online access to information on more than 41,000 employees that hacktivists said they obtained from a database breached at DHS. A search tool for the database, named Icepick, went offline for a spell before coming online again…
John Rupolo reports: University of New Mexico Health is addressing concerns after a cyberattack on Monday, with reports surfacing this week that a ransomware group claimed responsibility for the incident. “So what I can say is we’re also aware of those claims by that group,” said Chris Ramirez, communications director…
Eric Weiss reports: The Florida Department of Education says a breach of its student financial aid website may have exposed personal information, including Social Security numbers, belonging to approximately 4.9 million people. The department said staff learned of unauthorized criminal access to the Florida Student…
One cyber firm listed a half-dozen exploitations of the PHP2Shell bugs, and another identified a well targeted, suspected Chinese campaign that breached U.S. "government affiliated" servers.
David DiMolfetta reports: Searchable records identifying more than 41,000 current and former Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors were published Wednesday, exposing contact information and details about sensitive assignments across the department, according to the organizations behind the release.…
Suspected Chinese attackers chained PHP2Shell with a Linux kernel privilege-escalation exploit to root 25 servers, including Palo Alto Networks firewalls linked to US government-affiliated organizations, according to Dream researchers. The snoops began exploiting these servers on October 23, targeting organizations…
Ambulances were diverted, surgeries cancelled, and medical students sent home from classes after a ransomware group attacked the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center (HSC) this week. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Linux Kernel and Broadcom VMWare ESX flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Linux Kernel and Broadcom VMWare ESX vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities…
Unpatched voting machines, unverifiable QR-coded ballots, and AI-driven influence campaigns leave US elections short of secure. The post How Secure Are US Elections? Voting Machine Risks and the Growing Threat of AI appeared first on SecurityWeek .
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies to patch a high-severity Linux kernel privilege escalation bug that attackers are chaining with the PHP2Shell flaws in the wild. [...]
The Federal Trade Commission ordered nine food delivery, airline and ride-sharing companies to turn over detailed information on how they harness personal data to set individual consumer prices and employee compensation.
Volt Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored APT group that’s focused on cyberespionage and United States’ critical infrastructure, has been using a covert, constantly rotating relay network to hide its most sensitive intrusions, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs revealed on Wednesday. This network, dubbed Silent Train by the…
The University of New Mexico was able to restore systems used by its healthcare facilities after a cyberattack forced it to divert ambulances and cancel classes at its medical school.
BAE Systems says no data was extracted and no PII was breached in the incident that disrupted US bankruptcy court notices for weeks. The post BAE Says No Data Extracted in Incident Hitting Bankruptcy Courts appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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An unprecedented leak of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive…
Welcome to the 26th edition of Cloudflare's DDoS Threat Report. This edition covers the third quarter of 2026 — July, August, and September — and returns the series to its quarterly cadence following the combined H1 2026 volume. The analysis is produced by Cloudforce One , Cloudflare's Threat Intelligence…
View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of multiple vulnerabilities that affect the TRO600 series product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited for remote code execution (RCE) to carry out further attacks and disclosure of sensitive information. Please refer to the Recommended…
View CSAF Summary Mendix SAML module contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to gain unauthorized access by replaying a valid SAML assertion in IdP-initiated authentication flows. Siemens has released new versions for the affected products and recommends to…
View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of OS command injection and Dirty Frag vulnerabilities that affect CoreTec product versions listed in this document. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability of the product. Please refer to the…
Artem Stryzhak gets 70 months for Nefilim and Hive ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, government agencies and businesses in the US and overseas.
Volt Typhoon used disposable relay chains to hide zero-day attacks on critical systems. Lumen linked Silent Train to at least four zero-days. Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs has spent three years tracking a covert network it calls Silent Train, which it ties to Volt Typhoon, the China-linked APT group. The cybersecurity firm…
Names, offices, contact details and assignments of more than 41,000 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees have been leaked by a hacktivist group calling itself the Department of Peace. The group handed the data to the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) and to Swiss hacker…
US election websites show improved security, but weak email protection, non-.gov domains and third-party tracking still expose voters to risks. Millions of Americans will use websites to check their registration, find polling places or track ballots before the November 3 election. However, a new study finds that many…
The FBI seized Virtualine, a hosting service accused of supporting criminal sites, ignoring abuse reports and helping launder money from illegal activities The FBI seized the website of Virtualine, a hosting service that sold its services to criminals. The seized domain is virtualine.net, and the government says the…
Hackers stole personal information and iRhythm account and device data from third-party-hosted business applications. The post HHS Filing Puts iRhythm Data Breach Toll at 8.2 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek .
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware ESX to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, after CrowdStrike revealed that it had been weaponized by a China-nexus threat actor known as Warp Panda in attacks targeting the U.S.…