On April 6, cancer patients at Brockton Hospital in Massachusetts showed up for chemotherapy infusions and were told to go home. The hospital’s information systems had been hit by a cyberattack. The ER closed. Ambulances were diverted. Staff switched to paper records. Patients were told to call back later to reschedule their treatment. This wasn’t...Read More
For years, most Texans have heard of child predator operations taking place to reduce or eliminate that type of behavior. It’s been on television shows, it’s taken place by local police, and there are now people on social media that do this because they hate child predators so much. You would think people would stop...Read More
Summary The Acronis TRU team identified a threat cluster leveraging a customized Adwind (Java RAT) variant with polymorphic characteristics to deliver a ransomware module, tracked as ‘JanaWare.’ Analysis of malware samples, infrastructure and telemetry indicates the campaign is likely focused on Turkish users. The malware enforces execution constraints based on system locale and external IP...Read More
Every IT position is also a cybersecurity position now. Every IT worker, every technology worker, needs to be involved with protecting and defending apps, data, devices, infrastructure and people. There will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs globally in 2024 — enough to fill 50 NFL stadiums — according to Cybersecurity Ventures. This is up from...Read More
This article is cross-posted with the Transnational Litigation Blog. On April 28, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Cisco Systems v. Doe I et al. (Cisco), which asks whether a private U.S. company can ever be sued under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS)—and its CEO sued under the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA)(1992)—for aiding...Read More
Somewhere in Hasbro’s network, someone was where they should not have been. The $14.4 billion toy and entertainment conglomerate, owner of Peppa Pig, Transformers, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Nerf, Play-Doh, and Power Rangers ,disclosed on Wednesday that it had identified unauthorised access to its systems, an intrusion first detected on 28 March that has since...Read More
Iran-Backed Hacker Group Claims Major Breach of Israel’s Top Cloud Provider The Handala cyber group, believed to be linked to Iran, has taken responsibility for a significant, renewed attack on the infrastructure of GNS, which it claims is the largest cloud services provider in Israel. In a statement carried by Iran’s Fars News Agency, the...Read More
A recent survey of 1,458 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 found that most of them do not see social media platforms affecting their mental health. The Pew Research Center asked young people about the effects of Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. Only a small share — around one in 10 — believes these...Read More
Top bankers are to be given access to the model in advance to test out their systems. The chief executive of Barclays, CS Venkatakrishnan, told the BBC: “It’s serious enough that people have to worry. “We have to understand it better, and we have to understand the vulnerabilities that are being exposed and fix them...Read More
According to Anthropic and other MCP adapter developers, the STDIO command execution behavior is by design and the responsibility of sanitizing MCP configurations falls with developers of client applications. While this might be true, in practice OX Security found that few developers have attempted to filter commands in MCP configs and even those who did...Read More
