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The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Baltimore suburb confirms August data breach after ransomware claims

Anne Arundel County, Maryland, said an intruder stole files from government systems, and investigators are working to assess how much data was exposed.

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

BAE Systems cyberattack disrupts US federal court operations

The Administrative Office of the US Courts says a cyberattack on government contractor BAE Systems has taken down the notice system used by federal bankruptcy …

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Federal bankruptcy courts dealing with outages after contractor cyberattack

The incident, which involved a government contractor, has halted all production of bankruptcy notices.

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

UK Legal Aid Agency hack worse than thought, with stolen records dating back to 1978

A cyberattack on Britain’s Legal Aid Agency (LAA) stole far older and broader records than the government previously disclosed.

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

Anthropic takes risky AI tests offline after models breach govt sites

Anthropic announced that its internal AI models undergoing "high-risk and cybersecurity evaluations" no longer have internet access following incidents involvi…

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Anthropic AI agent gives fake murder tip to US cops in global breach

Georgia Wells and Joseph Pisani report: Rogue AI models have hacked companies and tried to break into government websites. Now one has submitted a fake tip for…

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Cyberattack at IDC Frontier disrupts services around nation

The Asahi Shimbun reports: IDC Frontier Inc., a SoftBank subsidiary that provides cloud services, said Oct. 7 that a ransomware attack caused a system outage a…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

FBI Says China-Linked Hackers Ran Portal Giving Third Parties Access to Stolen Emails

Hackers tied to a Chinese cybersecurity company stole email from government organizations, law enforcement agencies, healthcare systems, and religious institut…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Warlock Exploits SharePoint Flaws to Disable Security Tools and Deploy Ransomware

The suspected China-linked threat actor known as Warlock is still continuing to weaponize Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities, likely both old and new, in att…

Microsoft 365

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Manic Android Malware Exfiltrates Data From Offline Phones via Nearby Infected Devices

A new Android threat codenamed Manic has been observed actively targeting Ukrainian banks, government and identity services, and messaging applications, as wel…

Android

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Gunra Ransomware Exploits Fortinet and Schneider Electric Flaws to Breach Networks

Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from South Korea and the U.S. warned of Gunra ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure sectors and organiza…

Fortinet

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Gunra Ransomware Exploits Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy Flaws to Breach Networks

Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from South Korea and the U.S. warned of Gunra ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure sectors and organiza…

Fortinet

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

New SharkLoader Malware Deploys Cobalt Strike in StrikeShark Cyberattacks

A newly discovered cyber attack campaign has been observed delivering a previously undocumented malware family called SharkLoader that acts as a loader for dep…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Chinese Silk Typhoon Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over COVID Research Cyberattacks

A Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Italy. Xu Zewei, 34, was arrested in July 2…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

CISA Warns of Zimbra, SharePoint Flaw Exploits; Cisco Zero-Day Hit in Ransomware Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged government agencies to apply patches for two security flaws impacting Synacor Zimbra…

Microsoft 365 Cisco

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

China-Linked APT31 Launches Stealthy Cyberattacks on Russian IT Using Cloud Services

The China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as APT31 has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting the Russian information technology (IT) s…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Anthropic Disrupts AI-Powered Cyberattacks Automating Theft and Extortion Across Critical Sectors

Anthropic on Wednesday revealed that it disrupted a sophisticated operation that weaponized its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot Claude to conduct …

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

CERT-UA Warns of HTA-Delivered C# Malware Attacks Using Court Summons Lures

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of cyber attacks carried out by a threat actor called UAC-0099 targeting government agenci…

LinuxSecurity - Security Articles
LinuxSecurity - Security Articles Breaches & leaks

Ivanti CSA Flaws Weaponized by Houken for Linux Rootkit Attacks

Linux admins and infosec pros, we've got a real problem on our hands. There's a group out there''the Houken threat actor''that's not messing around. These guys…

Linux Ivanti

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

U.S. Agencies Warn of Rising Iranian Cyberattacks on Defense, OT Networks, and Critical Infrastructure

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have issued a joint advisory warning of potential cyber attacks from Iranian state-sponsored or affiliated threat …

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Over 70 Organizations Across Multiple Sectors Targeted by China-Linked Cyber Espionage Group

The reconnaissance activity targeting American cybersecurity company SentinelOne was part of a broader set of partially-related intrusions into several targets…

LinuxSecurity - Security Articles
LinuxSecurity - Security Articles Breaches & leaks

Anatomy of a Linux Ransomware Attack

Ransomware has been making life miserable for IT folks for years now, and you've probably heard plenty about how it hits Windows systems . But Linux? Yeah, tha…

Linux Windows

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Earth Kurma Targets Southeast Asia With Rootkits and Cloud-Based Data Theft Tools

Government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia have become the target of a "sophisticated" campaign undertaken by a new advanced persistent threat…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Paper Werewolf Deploys PowerModul Implant in Targeted Cyberattacks on Russian Sectors

The threat actor known as Paper Werewolf has been observed exclusively targeting Russian entities with a new implant called PowerModul.The activity, which took…