Everyone thinks they can spot a phish. Whether it is an email, SMS text, or QRish phishing, people have an overinflated view of their capabilities to detect them....more
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts has charged a student at Assumption University with hacking into two U.S.-based companies’ systems and demanding a ransom....more
Healthcare system Ascension has notified 437,329 patients of a data breach exposing “demographic information, such as name, address, phone number(s), email address, date of birth, race, gender, and Social Security numbers, as...more
Threat actors are leveraging the publicity around AI tools to trick users into downloading the malware known as Noodlophile through social media sites.
Researchers from Morphisec have observed threat actors, believed to...more
SAP Netweaver Visual Composer users are urged to patch a critical vulnerability that attackers are actively exploiting. According to ReliaQuest, which detected the vulnerability, the attacks allow full system compromise...more
Identity theft will continue to rise in 2025. According to the Better Business Bureau of Missouri (BBB), it received over 16,000 identity theft complaints in the past three years. Scammers are “increasingly using advanced...more
Unfortunately, identity theft continues to increase, and according to Identitytheft.org, the statistics are going to get worse in 2025. Some of the statistics cited by Identitytheft.org include:
1.4 million complaints of...more
SentinelOne researchers have discovered AkiraBot, which is used to target small- to medium-sized company websites with generative AI, and drafted outreach messages for website chats, comments, and contact forms. SentinelOne...more
BleepingComputer has confirmed the rumor that Oracle has suffered a compromise affecting its legacy environment, including the compromise of old customer credentials (originally denied by Oracle). Oracle notified some...more
WhatsApp users should update the application for vulnerability CVE-2025-30401, which Meta recently patched when WhatsApp was released for Windows version 2.2450.6....more
On March 28, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a Malware Analysis Report (MAR) on RESURGE malware, which is associated with the product Ivanti Connect Secure....more
On March 12, 2025, a joint cybersecurity advisory was issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center to advise...more
According to Security Week, X (formerly Twitter) was hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that disrupted tens of thousands of X users’ ability to access the platform on March 10, 2025....more
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, that the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) will lose its federal funding and cooperative agreement...more
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Eyeglass manufacturer and retailer Warby Parker recently settled a 2018 data breach investigation by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for $1.5 million. According to OCR’s press release, Warby Parker self-reported that...more
CrowdStrike recently published its 2025 Global Threat Report, which among other conclusions, emphasized that social engineering tactics aimed to steal credentials grew an astounding 442% in the second half of 2024....more
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center released an advisory on February 19, 2025, providing information on Ghost...more
Unfortunately, I’ve had unpleasant dealings with the Phobos ransomware group. My interactions with Phobos have been fodder for a good story when I educate client employees on recent cyber-attacks to prevent them from becoming...more
If you are a GrubHub customer, read carefully. The app has confirmed a security incident involving a third-party vendor that allowed an unauthorized threat actor to access user contact information, including some customer...more
Soon after the Chinese generative artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek emerged to compete with ChatGPT and Gemini, it was forced offline when “large-scale malicious attacks” targeted its servers. Speculation points...more
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On January 22, 2025, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint advisory related to previous vulnerabilities in the Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance,...more
MGM Resorts agreed to pay $45 million to settle over a dozen class action lawsuits concerning 2019 and 2023 data breaches. A federal court in Nevada preliminarily approved the settlement, which, according to lawyers, covers...more
American Addiction Centers (AAC) has notified 422,424 individuals that their personal information was stolen in a cyber-attack attributed to the Rhysida criminal organization. The incident was discovered on September 26,...more
We previously reported that Ascension Health detected a cyber-attack on May 8, 2024, that affected clinical operations in Ascension facilities in six states....more
Adobe recently issued a patch for a high-severity vulnerability for ColdFusion versions 2023.11 and 2021.17 and earlier; according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), “an attacker could exploit this...more