AI 'Machine Speed' Cuts 2-Week Attack Down to 10 Hours
The incident demonstrates how frontier AI agents can dramatically compress an attack timeline and coordinate a large-scale breach, according to researchers.
The incident demonstrates how frontier AI agents can dramatically compress an attack timeline and coordinate a large-scale breach, according to researchers.
Five Healthcare Providers Report Ransomware-Related Data Breaches The HIPAA Journal
Data breaches have been confirmed by Alta Orthopaedics in California, Cornerstone Behavioral Healthcare in Maine, Cameron Regional Medical Center in […] The post Five Healthcare Providers Report Ransomware-Related Data Breaches appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.
The cancer treatment company said internal data from more than 1,400 patient records were exposed in a cyberattack detected in mid-August.
The dialysis provider has opted to settle a proposed class action lawsuit stemming from a data breach last year that impacted 2.7 million people.
Infostealers can expose far more than passwords, including authenticated sessions that may let attackers bypass MFA. Flare explains how defenders can prioritize compromised identities, determine whether stolen access is still usable, and respond before it leads to account takeove…
Microsoft has confirmed that desktop settings are lost or reset on some Windows devices after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update. [...]
By Steve Akers - Healthcare security programs were built around an assumption that no longer holds everywhere: that a human sits on the other end of an attack, working at human speed and making human mistakes. That is why the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, in a joint advisory t…
Brazil's most sophisticated threat group is making light work of the country's financial systems, putting money directly into its own pocket.
An RMM phishing campaign initially associated with Canadian targeting due to its use of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) tax forms as lures has turned out to be part of a broader campaign spanning 46 countries. Around 45% of observed activity was associated with the United States, ma…
Plex urged users this week to update their desktop clients and media servers immediately to patch multiple security vulnerabilities. [...]
Threat actors are leveraging the trusted Node.js JavaScript runtime in multiple cyber attacks as a way to deploy malicious payloads. According to a new report published by the Symantec Threat Hunter Team today, the attack method has been put to use in attacks targeting governmen…
In early August, GitGuardian researchers found that a recent Shai-Hulud infostealer worm variant had evolved to scan for credentials across 469 locations across developer environments, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling, cloud configurations, and even AI…
Multi-Million Settlement Resolves Managed Care of North America Data Breach Litigation The HIPAA Journal
Managed Care of North America, Inc. (MCNA) has agreed to settle class action litigation stemming from a 2023 cybersecurity incident […] The post Multi-Million Settlement Resolves Managed Care of North America Data Breach Litigation appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.
Microsoft is working to fix a known issue that causes crashes and launch failures for Microsoft Teams and New Outlook users after installing updates released since the August 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]
The iPhone belonging to a member of Serbia's student protest movement was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, according to new findings from the Citizen Lab in collaboration with the SHARE Foundation. "Our analysis confirmed that an iMessage zero-click exploit was used to…
The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has dropped a new zero-day dubbed FalconFlank, a privilege escalation flaw impacting Crowdstrike Falcon. "FalconFlank is a 0day privilege escalation that abuses the offi…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added seven security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after they landed in attackers' crosshairs. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS score: 10.0) - …
New research suggests the coming Vulnpocalypse may not be so overwhelming for enterprise security teams — if they have the right strategies.