Community Health Center discloses massive patient data breach. getty Update, Feb. 2, 2025: This story, originally published Jan. 31, now includes further expert comments on the cybersecurity challenges facing healthcare providers following this latest medical records breach and a ransomware attack against a major blood donor group in New York. With ransomware attacks reaching record […]
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New warning for millions of Apple users issued. Anadolu via Getty Images Update, Jan. 12, 2025: This story, originally published Jan. 10, now includes more information from the Check Point research detailing changes to the Apple macOS Banshee Stealer malware as well as comments from a number of security experts regarding this type of cyber […]
A tight brown waterline for ‘siren eyes’, a smattering of freckles, a ’90s lip: it could only be Billie Eilish. And in a rare enough appearance for the singer on TikTok, she’s shared her full pre-show glam routine—her “everyday tour pre show glam routine or whatever” to be exact. “Leave me alone I barely know […]
The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. (Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images In late October, a week before the presidential election, Kamala Harris’ cybersecurity team called Apple looking for help. A spyware detection tool had flagged anomalies on two […]
Anyone who’s grown up watching crime dramas or reading cheesy spy novels is probably familiar with this scene. A criminal in hot pursuit by police makes a sharp turn down a side street, jumps out the driver side door then quickly swaps out their license plates with a backup pair hiding in the trunk. The […]
Telecom companies aren’t required to notify customers about every breach. A Federal Communications Commission order in December 2023 adopted a “harm-based notification trigger” in which “notification of a breach to consumers is not required in cases where a carrier can reasonably determine that no harm to customers is reasonably likely to occur as a result […]
Hackers have gained sweeping access to U.S. text messages and phone calls — and in response, the FBI is falling back on the same warmed-over, bad advice about encryption that it has trotted out for years. In response to the Salt Typhoon hack, attributed to state-backed hackers from China, the bureau is touting the long-debunked […]
“Microsoft assesses that Secret Blizzard either used the Amadey malware as a service (MaaS) or accessed the Amadey command-and-control (C2) panels surreptitiously to download a PowerShell dropper on target devices,” Microsoft said. “The PowerShell dropper contained a Base64-encoded Amadey payload appended by code that invoked a request to Secret Blizzard C2 infrastructure.” The ultimate objective […]
While stalking its target, GruesomeLarch performed credential-stuffing attacks that compromised the passwords of several accounts on a web service platform used by the organization’s employees. Two-factor authentication enforced on the platform, however, prevented the attackers from compromising the accounts. So GruesomeLarch found devices in physically adjacent locations, compromised them, and used them to probe the […]
