Source: The Register Cybercriminals have reeled in password hashes and corresponding salts belonging to users of popular fishing app Fishbrain, opening the door to cracking attempts. Stockholm, Sweden-based Fishbrain AB, which says its eponymous app serves more than 20 million anglers, disclosed the Aug. 19 breach to t
Source: TAPinto Westfield A ransomware attack may be the cause of the Westfield Public Schools district-wide network outage, which began on the first day of school and continued for a third day on Sep. 3. The outage has shut down internet and Wi-Fi in the schools, including clocks and access to instructional tools, as
Source: ars TECHNICA The Federal Communications Commission said Sep. 2 it will create a robocall mitigation scorecard to rate phone companies on how effectively they block illegal spam calls. The scorecards could include call-blocking statistics along with data on customer complaints and enforcement actions. The FCC sa
Source: TechRadar Pro Thomson Reuters, the IT company behind the Reuters news agency, suffered a cyberattack a few months ago, exposing certain court documents to the attackers. The company confirmed the intrusion this week. Thomson Reuters operates a court case-management system called C-Track, sold by its West Publis
Source: HackRead A flaw in Lenovo ID’s email verification process allowed an unauthorized party to access about 5,000 Dropbox accounts between Aug. 4 and Aug. 21. Dropbox said files were viewed or downloaded in fewer than one-third of the affected accounts. Dropbox began notifying affected users on Aug. 31. The affecte
Source: Reuters The FBI said Sep. 2 it was investigating a report that tens of millions of drivers' licenses belonging to people in the U.S. and Canada were being sold on the dark web. A day earlier, independent journalist Brian Krebs said he had discovered a dark web site, selling digital scans of millions of drivers'
Source: Government Technology Winona County paid ransomware attackers nearly $130,000 to restore services in the first of two separate hacking events earlier this year. The payment was completed with the assistance of the county’s insurance carrier, according to county officials, and was negotiated “to ensure a full an
Source: Finextra U.S. core banking vendor Jack Henry (Nasdaq: JKHY), an S&P 500 company, has been bit by a ransomware attack. The company says the incident involved access to its internal corporate environment through a social engineering voice phishing scheme initiated by ShinyHunters, a criminal hacker and extortion
Source: The Record A ransomware group believed to be linked to pro-Ukrainian hackers is targeting Russian organizations with custom malware and demanding multimillion-dollar payments. The group calls itself VantaCore and has targeted at least seven known victims, Russian cybersecurity firm F6 said in a report. The grou
Source: PCMag A hacker who sent malicious Excel attachments a decade ago, circulating malware to 80,000 freelance workers, has finally been caught, according to federal investigators. Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev allegedly exploited a “well-known freelance employment technology company” in California to spread the
Source: The Register International law enforcement agencies, working with CrowdStrike and Shadowserver Foundation, have disrupted Sality, a 23-year-old peer-to-peer botnet used to deliver malware to more than 15,000 machines worldwide. The botnet has operated since 2003 and distributed all types of malicious code to vi
Source: Eye On Annapolis Luminis Health, a nonprofit regional health system with a network of more than 100 practice locations in Maryland, is responding to a cybersecurity incident that has disrupted certain computer systems across the health system. Luminis said it identified the incident and took immediate steps to
Source: The Record At least $6 million was stolen from crypto platform Tectonic after an attacker manipulated the price of the Tonic coin. The decentralized lending platform confirmed Aug. 30 that it was dealing with a security incident, and the public blockchain Cronos halted activity to prevent an outflow of stolen f
Source: MeriTalk The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is directing federal agencies to deploy Login.gov across most public-facing websites within two years, according to an Aug. 31 memo. The Login.gov platform is administered by the General Services Administration (GSA) and acts as a digital front door
Source: The HIPAA Journal The HIPAA Journal reported earlier this month that a data breach at Aesto Health, a Birmingham, Ala.-based healthcare technology company, has affected several of its healthcare provider clients. Aesto Health provides secure data migration, legacy data archiving, and electronic health record (E
Source: Los Angeles Magazine “On Jul. 11, 2025, we detected a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized activity in portions of our computer systems. We immediately began investigating and responding to that incident,” a statement published by the Los Angeles Count Museum of Art (LACMA) read. This led to some custo
Source: Yogonet HIT Group has begun reopening its Slovenian casinos after restoring systems disrupted by a cyberattack. The casino operator detected the attack overnight on Aug. 24–25, forcing the closure of six properties: Perla, Park, Casino Drive-in, Mond, Korona, and Casino Fontana. The incident affected hotel rece
Source: The Hacker News Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's AI-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two independent analyses are based on exposed infrastructure associated wi
Source: Teiss Kiewit Corp., a major construction and engineering firm operating across the transportation, power, water, mining, oil and gas, and building sectors in the U.S, Canada and Mexico, has notified current and former employees and independent contractors that their personal information may have been compromise
Source: ars TECHNICA OpenAI’s ChatGPT will have to comply with tougher EU rules such as removing illegal content or face potential fines, the European Commission said on Monday, as Brussels grapples with how its existing digital regulation applies to rapidly evolving AI services. The Commission said the chatbot, social