- Ransomware attack at DaVita impacted 2.7 million people, US health dept website shows
August 21, 2025
A ransomware attack that encrypted certain elements of dialysis firm DaVita’s network impacted 2.7 million people, the U.S. health department’s website showed on Thursday. The firm had disclosed in April that it was hit by a cyberattack. At the time, it said it would continue to provide patient care as it took measures to restore certain ...
- Orange Belgium informs its customers about a cyberattack
August 20, 2025
At the end of July, Orange Belgium detected a cyberattack on one of its IT systems, resulting in unauthorised access to certain data from 850,000 customer accounts. No critical data was compromised: no passwords, email addresses, bank or financial details were hacked. However, the hacker gained access to one of our IT systems containing the following ...
- Warlock: From SharePoint Vulnerability Exploit to Enterprise Ransomware
August 20, 2025
Organizations continue to grapple with increasingly complex cyberthreats, as ransomware groups rapidly evolve their tactics. In a recent attack wave, the Warlock ransomware group exploited internet-exposed, unpatched on-premise Microsoft SharePoint servers, abusing newly discovered vulnerabilities to gain initial access to their target’s system. Other groups such as Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon have also been observed ...
- A clever new Linux malware is breaking into systems and then shutting the door behind it to avoid detection
August 19, 2025
A hacker was recently spotted patching someone’s vulnerable cloud Linux instance – but they did not do it out of the goodness of their heart. Security researchers Red Canary observed a threat actor abusing a maximum severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-46604, to break into a cloud Linux system. The vulnerability is found in Apache ActiveMQ, and ...
- Pharma giant Inotiv hit by ransomware attack, says operations were affected
August 19, 2025
Inotiv, an American pharmaceutical and biotech company, has confirmed it has suffered a ransomware attack which forced it to shut down parts of its IT infrastructure. In a report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company said it spotted the attack on August 8, 2025. The initial investigation determined that someone broke ...
- Australia’s second-largest internet provider iiNet customers’ data exposed in cyber attack
August 19, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of customers of Australia’s second-largest internet provider have had their email addresses or phone numbers compromised in a cyber attack. A list of about 280,000 active email addresses and roughly 20,000 active landline phone numbers were extracted from iiNet’s order management system, parent company TPG said. Another 10,000-odd iiNet user names, street addresses ...
- Deep dive into CVE‑2025‑29824 in Windows
August 19, 2025
On April 8, 2025, Microsoft patched 121 vulnerabilities across its products, including CVE-2025-29824—the only one known to be exploited in the wild. This particular flaw enabled adversaries to escalate Windows privileges by leveraging a bug in the clfs.sys driver. Microsoft Threat Intelligence discovered the issue during the Storm-2460 attacks targeting organizations in Saudi Arabia, Spain, Venezuela, ...
- GodRAT – New RAT targeting financial institutions
August 19, 2025
In September 2024, Kaspersky researchers detected malicious activity targeting financial (trading and brokerage) firms through the distribution of malicious .scr (screen saver) files disguised as financial documents via Skype messenger. The threat actor deployed a newly identified Remote Access Trojan (RAT) named GodRAT, which is based on the Gh0st RAT codebase. To evade detection, the attackers ...
- Workday hit by data breach targeting CRM systems
August 18, 2025
The US company was affected by a social engineering campaign that bears similarities to a recent wave of attacks by extortion group ShinyHunters. Enterprise software company Workday recently suffered a data breach after threat actors targeted a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform. According to a blogpost by the US company on Friday (15 August), threat ...
- Evolution of the PipeMagic backdoor: from the RansomExx incident to CVE-2025-29824
August 18, 2025
In April 2025, Microsoft patched 121 vulnerabilities in its products. According to the company, only one of them was being used in real-world attacks at the time the patch was released: CVE-2025-29824. The exploit for this vulnerability was executed by the PipeMagic malware, which Kaspersky researchers first discovered in December 2022 in a RansomExx ransomware campaign. ...