Medicare and Medicaid are losing billions of taxpayer dollars to criminals because they can’t keep pace with their high-tech scams, a Post investigation has found. International criminal networks employ hackers who steal sensitive patient data then sell it on the dark web or use it to then bill for fake medical equipment or services in...Read More
“Technology can strengthen your defenses, but people determine whether those defenses succeed or fail.” Organizations today are investing more than ever in cybersecurity technologies. Artificial intelligence is identifying anomalies in real time, Zero Trust architectures are replacing traditional perimeter security, cloud-native security platforms are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and automated threat detection systems are capable of...Read More
Ravie LakshmananJul 19, 2026Malware / Cyber Warfare Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been observed leveraging the infamous ClickFix strategy to trick Ukrainian targets into infecting their own machines with data-stealing malware. According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), the activity has been attributed to UAC-0145, a sub-cluster within Sandworm, an advanced hacking...Read More
Photo: IC The cybersecurity departments of China’s public security authority on Monday unveiled 10 typical cases involving their crackdown on illegal online football betting and other gambling-related offenses, including setting up illegal betting markets and providing illegal fund settlement services for overseas football gambling platforms during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. In three cases, the...Read More
In brief Chris McKie details ransomware backdoor tactics in backup systems Beth Burgin Waller advises employee training on IT impersonation B. Stephanie Siegmann highlights third-party vendor vulnerabilities Jared D. Correia warns of excessive employee data access risks Mark Schwartz, Legal Tech correspondent Ransomware attacks against law firms have grown more sophisticated over the past year,...Read More
security Microsoft says GigaWiper combines at least 3 malware families into one modular tool A newly identified destructive Windows backdoor combines ransomware-like encryption with multiple data-wiping features, according to Microsoft. Last October, the Redmond threat-hunting team first spotted attacks using the Golang-based implant they’ve named GigaWiper. Its developers stuffed multiple malware families into the software...Read More
We’re in the middle of World War 01110111 01100101 01100010 Most of us don’t know it. Which is a problem, as we are expected to already be fighting on the front line. The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has warned that Russian hackers are actively targeting critical industries and infrastructure. This includes communications networks, energy suppliers,...Read More
RAID, or the “Redundant Array of Independent Disks” earned its place in enterprise and industrial computing for a good reason. In the 1980s and 1990s, when hard drive failures were a far more common operational headache, RAID solved a genuine problem for companies. The idea was that by mirroring or distributing data across multiple disks,...Read More
With Nintendo’s 3DS experiencing a bit of a renaissance lately, prices for functioning systems have shot through the roof. Getting a busted one with a broken screen is a lot cheaper, but then you run into the eye-watering price difference between a replacement top screen for the regular version and the larger XL variant. The...Read More
Recent cyberattacks against One Medical and Mount Royal University exposed a troubling reality: organizations continue to invest heavily in endpoint, identity, cloud, and network security while overlooking one of the most critical components of their digital infrastructure – storage and backup systems. In the One Medical incident, attackers gained access to a storage system containing...Read More
