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  • "United HealthCare Reports Data Breach That May Have Revealed Customers' Personal Information"

    United HealthCare recently made customers aware of a data breach, which temporarily allowed access to personal information for those enrolled in the company's healthcare plans.  According to the company, "suspicious activity" was noticed on the UHC…

  • "Pro-Russian Hackers Claim Downing of French Senate Website"

    The French Senate’s website was offline on Friday after pro-Russian hackers claimed to have taken it down.  Access to the site has been disrupted since this morning.  A group calling itself NoName on Telegram claimed responsibility, saying it…

  • "Lawmakers Reintroduce Legislation to Bolster Satellite Cybersecurity"

    A bipartisan pair of senators have reintroduced legislation that would require the US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to provide streamlined information and resources to commercial satellite owners…

  • "Attacks Increasingly Use Malicious HTML Email Attachments"

    Researchers warn that attackers are increasingly relying on malicious HTML files in their attacks, with malicious files making up for half of all HTML email attachments. This rate of malicious HTML prevalence has doubled since last year, and it does not…

  • "Insider Hacks Exfiltrate Five Times As Many Records"

    The Ponemon Institute surveyed organizations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific for its new report on insider threats. Researchers interviewed 1,004 Information Technology (IT) and IT security professionals from 278…

  • "Ransomware Actors Extort University Via Alert System"

    Ransomware attackers recently turned up the heat on a small Virginian university by hijacking a staff/student alert system to warn of a major impending data leak.  Bluefield University discovered an attack on its IT systems on April 30, ahead of…

  • "Security Researcher Finds Trove of Capita Data Exposed Online"

    A researcher has found that the London-based outsourcing company Capita left a large amount of data exposed online for seven years, just weeks after the company admitted to having experienced a data breach that could have affected customer information.…

  • "Cyber Patrols Lead to Seizure of Stolen Artifacts"

    According to Europol, European police have arrested scores of suspects and seized thousands of stolen artifacts after a joint physical and cyber operation last year. Operation Pandora VII involved police from Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,…

  • "Google Play Witnessed 600K Installations of New Android Malware Fleckpe"

    Fleckpe, a new Android subscription malware, has been downloaded over 620,000 times. According to researchers, Fleckpe is now among other infamous Android spyware, such as Jocker and Harly, that enrolls users in premium services to generate illegal…

  • "Fortinet Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in FortiADC, FortiOS"

    Fortinet recently announced its monthly set of security updates that address nine vulnerabilities in multiple products, including two high-severity bugs in FortiADC, FortiOS, and FortiProxy.  Impacting the FortiADC application delivery controller,…

  • "MSI's Leaked Firmware Keys Endanger Hundreds of Devices"

    Researchers have discovered leaked firmware image signing keys and Intel Boot Guard keys for MSI products. According to Alex Matrosov, CEO of the firmware supply chain security platform Binarly, the leaked firmware keys impact 57 MSI products, while the…

  • "Kimsuky Hackers Use New Recon Tool to Find Security Gaps"

    In a global cyber espionage campaign, the North Korean hacking group Kimsuky has been observed using a new version of its reconnaissance malware, now known as ReconShark. According to Sentinel Labs, the threat actor is now targeting government…