Suspected Cyberattack Sends Fake Emergency Alert to Phones Across Brazil
Brazil’s alert system was taken offline after a fake emergency alert reached phones, with officials investigating a suspected cyberattack and security failure.
Brazil’s alert system was taken offline after a fake emergency alert reached phones, with officials investigating a suspected cyberattack and security failure.
HIPAA Business Associates that create, receive, maintain, or transmit electronic Protected Health Information on behalf of HIPAA-covered entities are directly […] The post HIPAA Security Rule Training for Business Associates appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.
Despite the abundance of telemetry at analysts’ disposal, many security operations teams struggle to answer a few basic questions during incident investigation: What happened? What evidence do we have? How do we know we’re seeing it all, in context? Answering these questions req…
Bradford Health Services; Bradford Health Partners Settle Data Breach Lawsuit The HIPAA Journal
Bradford Health Services, LLC, and Bradford Health Partners, LLC, were sued over a December 2023 cybersecurity incident that exposed the […] The post Bradford Health Services; Bradford Health Partners Settle Data Breach Lawsuit appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.
After a global lull, ransomware gangs are setting sights on a rich new arena: attacking EU organizations and their suppliers.
Healthcare Report Highlights Growing Vendor Risk and Lack of Cyberattack Readiness The HIPAA Journal
The perils of connecting wearables with medical records Axios
Cybersecurity risk is growing, and healthcare organizations are struggling to defend a rapidly increasing attack surface. AI tools are being […] The post Healthcare Report Highlights Growing Vendor Risk and Lack of Cyberattack Readiness appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.
A previously undocumented Rust-based macOS implant and information stealer has been found to embed a prompt injection payload designed to trick a malware analyst's artificial intelligence (AI) tools and trick it into aborting or refusing an analysis of the artifact. The malware …
A new, stealthy backdoor named Mistic has been deployed as part of suspected financially motivated attacks aimed at multiple organizations spanning insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors since April 2026. According to Symantec and Carbon Black's Threat Hunte…
British Scattered Spider Hacker Pleads Guilty to Cyberattacks on TfL; SSM Health Care; Sutter Health The HIPAA Journal
An unknown threat actor exploited a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed, according to new findings from Google-owned Mandiant. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-202…
Google is rolling out new privacy controls for Search services and Google Play, giving you more control over saved history and personalized recommendations. [...]
A 21-year-old using the alias "Snoopy" was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in hacking DraftKings accounts in the November 2022 cyberattack. [...]
New details have been revealed on how hackers exploited a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20245 in zero-day attacks to create rogue root accounts on targeted devices. [...]
Researchers believe rogue peering was used to connect to the victim's SD-WAN devices to gain admin privileges and root-level access.
A malicious Microsoft Edge extension dubbed 'Edgecution' has been used in a ransomware attack to escape the browser sandbox and deploy a Python-based backdoor. [...]
Operation Endgame disrupts StealC malware infrastructure, seizing millions of stolen credentials and targeting servers used in global cybercrime campaigns.
Persistent cybercrime, social engineering, and infrastructure threats continue to plague the FIFA 2026 World Cup across the US, Canada, and Mexico.