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Scattered Spider evolves tactics in 2025, heightening risks
The notorious cybercriminal group Scattered Spider has significantly evolved its tactics in 2025, deploying new ransomware variants and social...
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Mount Sinai settles web tracking lawsuit for $5.3 million
Farah Amod: Sep 10, 2025 11:33:41 AM
New York’s largest hospital network has agreed to a multi-million dollar settlement over claims it improperly shared patient data with Facebook.
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INTERPOL's African cybercrime crackdown recovers $97M
INTERPOL's Operation Serengeti 2.0 has resulted in 1,209 arrests across Africa and the recovery of $97.4 million from cybercriminal networks that...
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Entire social security database allegedly exposed
Farah Amod: Sep 9, 2025 4:35:58 PM
A senior data officer has accused DOGE officials of uploading the entire U.S. Social Security database to an unprotected cloud server, triggering...
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Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks
Google became the latest victim in an ongoing wave of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by the ShinyHunters extortion group, with one of...
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Troy Health enters non-prosecution agreement for AI-enabled medicare fraud
Troy Health, Inc., a North Carolina-based Medicare provider, entered a non-prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice after admitting to...
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OCR clarifies HIPAA privacy rule on value-based disclosures and access rights
Farah Amod: Sep 8, 2025 2:29:59 PM
New FAQs from the Office for Civil Rights offer guidance on treatment disclosures to value-based care partners and confirm patient access rights to...
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Password manager browser extensions found vulnerable to clickjacking attacks
Farah Amod: Sep 8, 2025 2:01:42 PM
A new security flaw could let attackers steal login credentials, credit card data, and two-factor codes from millions of users with a single click.
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Linux malware campaign exploits malicious RAR filenames
Linux users are being targeted by a novel phishing campaign that uses malicious filenames in RAR archives to install the open-source VShell backdoor...
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Akron Children’s Hospital reaches settlement over meta pixel data sharing claims
Farah Amod: Sep 7, 2025 6:44:18 AM
A class action lawsuit over unauthorized data sharing through web tracking tools has led to a settlement impacting over 313,000 individuals.
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Colorado enacts Senate Bill 25-276 with new requirements for healthcare
Colorado has enacted Senate Bill 25-276, establishing new requirements for healthcare facilities that receive state funding, including restrictions...
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Senators press Aflac for details after June cyberattack
Farah Amod: Sep 5, 2025 12:20:15 PM
Aflac is under pressure from U.S. lawmakers to disclose more about a data breach that compromised personal and health information.
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Scraping service claims access to 1.8 billion Discord messages
Farah Amod: Sep 3, 2025 1:27:20 PM
A new Discord-focused scraping tool claims to index billions of user messages, voice chats, and files for sale on a popular leak forum.