A recent report from Mandiant, a subsidiary of Google Cloud, has uncovered a significant cyber threat involving the exploitation of the Snowflake platform. A financially motivated threat actor, identified as UNC5537, targeted around 165 organizations’ Snowflake customer instances, aiming…
Category: CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents
Confidential NHS Patient Data Discovered in Jesmond Alleyway
The confidential medical information that is believed to have been held by a medical student in Jesmond was discovered among household waste last week in Jesmond. A letter sent by a patient’s doctor following an appointment, filled with sensitive…
Ascension Breached Due to Employee Downloading Malicious File
Ascension, one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States, disclosed that a ransomware attack in May 2024 was initiated when an employee mistakenly downloaded a malicious file onto a company device. The healthcare provider indicated that the…
Researchers Find ChatGPT’s Latest Bot Behaves Like Humans
A team led by Matthew Jackson, the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics in the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, used psychology and behavioural economics tools to characterise the personality and behaviour of ChatGPT’s popular AI-driven bots in…
The High Cost of Ransomware: Change Healthcare’s $22 Million Payout and Its Aftermath
A Costly Decision: The $22 Million Ransom When Change Healthcare paid $22 million in March to a ransomware gang that had devastated the company as well as hundreds of hospitals, medical practices, and pharmacies throughout the US, the cybersecurity industry…
New Malware Campaign Exploits Windows Search to Spread
A new and intricate alware campaign has been discovered by Trustwave SpiderLabs, leveraging the Windows search feature embedded in HTML code to spread malicious software. The attack begins with a phishing email containing an HTML attachment disguised as a…
Data in Danger: Analyzing the Alleged Data Broker Breach
The protection of personal data is of utmost importance. A recent report has brought to public attention an alleged significant data breach involving a U.S. data broker. This incident, which purportedly affects billions of records and over 300 million people,…
Ascension Ransomware Attack: Worker Error Leads to Data Breach and Recovery Efforts
Ascension, one of the largest health systems in the country, recently revealed that a ransomware attack on its systems was due to a worker accidentally downloading a malicious file. The health system emphasized that this was likely an honest…
STR RAT: A Persistent Remote Access Trojan
The STR RAT is a remote access trojan (RAT) written in Java, first detected in 2020. Like other RATs, it allows threat actors full control of an infected machine. STR RAT is capable of keylogging, credential theft, and deploying…
Android 15’s Lockdown Mode Safeguards Your Phone Against “Juice Jacking”
You shouldn’t use any random cable that is provided to you to charge your favourite Android phone—or any other device, for that matter—at a public charging station for a few very good reasons. More importantly, there are always a…