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Ransomware gang says it hacked New England’s Covenant Health network
Ransomware gang Qilin today took credit for a May 2025 cyber attack against Covenant Health in Massachusetts. The health network says it shut down its network after a cyber attack caused connectivity issues starting on May 26, 2025. At least one hospital in the network says it diverted ambulances to other hospitals and moved services like medical imaging to other…
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Canada says Salt Typhoon hacked telecom firm via Cisco flaw
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the FBI confirm that the Chinese state-sponsored ‘Salt Typhoon’ hacking group is also targeting Canadian telecommunication firms, breaching a telecom provider in February. During the February 2025 incident, Salt Typhoon exploited the CVE-2023-20198 flaw, a critical Cisco IOS XE vulnerability allowing remote, unauthenticated attackers to create arbitrary accounts and gain admin-level privileges. The flaw was first disclosed in…
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Ransomware gang says it hacked Dairy Farmers of America, demands payment in 3 days
Ransomware group Play yesterday took credit for last week’s cyber attack on Dairy Farmers of America. The DFA last week said a ransomware attack disrupted multiple dairy manufacturing plants in the USA’s largest dairy cooperative. Play said it stole confidential data including budget, payroll, accounting, taxes, and financial info from the DFA. Play gave the DFA three days to pay…
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CoinMarketCap briefly hacked to drain crypto wallets via fake Web3 popup
CoinMarketCap, the popular cryptocurrency price tracking site, suffered a website supply chain attack that exposed site visitors to a wallet drainer campaign to steal visitors’ crypto. On Friday evening, January 20, CoinMarketCap visitors began seeing Web3 popups asking them to connect their wallets to the site. However, when visitors connected their wallets, a malicious script drained cryptocurrency from them. The company…
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Washington Post’s email system hacked, journalists’ accounts compromised
Email accounts of several Washington Post journalists were compromised in a cyberattack believed to have been carried out by a foreign government. The incident was discovered on Thursday evening and the publication started an investigation. On Sunday, June 15, an internal memo was sent to employees, informing them of a “possible targeted unauthorized intrusion into their email system.” According to The…
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Ransomware gang says it hacked a school district in Central Point, Oregon
Ransomware gang Interlock over the weekend took credit for a May 2025 cyber attack on Central Point School District 6 in Oregon. The district reported a cyber attack disrupted its systems on May 16, 2025, including absence notifications and gradebook updates. It restored systems by June 6, 2025. In a Facebook post, Superintendent Walt Davenport says the attack disrupted internet,…
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100,000 accounts have been hit in a HMRC scam campaign, but the tax office says it wasn’t hacked – here’s why
The UK’s tax revenue service has lost £47 million in a breach that started last year and impacted 100,000 people. The HMRC told the treasury select committee yesterday that the account scam was the result of “organized crime” that set up PAYE, or ‘Pay As You Earn’, accounts for individual taxpayers and used them to claim refunds. “This was organized…
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If You Have an Asus Router, You Need to Check If It’s Been Hacked
Asus’ routers and popular and well-reviewed. As such, there’s a good chance you have one of its devices powering your home wifi. If you do, you should probably check on it, since thousands of Asus’ routers are now compromised. What happened? Cybersecurity company GreyNoise published a blog post about this router attack on Wednesday. GreyNoise says attackers used brute-force login…
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A ransomware gang says it hacked Coweta County, GA schools
Ransomware gang Nitrogen over the weekend took credit for a cyber attack earlier this month on a school district in Coweta County, Georgia. On May 4, Coweta County School System issued a press release saying a network intrusion forced schools to take IT systems offline. “Some school system network processes will be hampered in the coming days, and school system…
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Government webmail hacked via XSS bugs in global spy campaign
Hackers are running a worldwide cyberespionage campaign dubbed ‘RoundPress,’ leveraging zero-day and n-day flaws in webmail servers to steal email from high-value government organizations. ESET researchers who uncovered the operation attribute it with medium confidence to the Russian state-sponsored hackers APT28 (aka “Fancy Bear” or “Sednit”). The campaign started in 2023 and continued with the adoption of new exploits in…
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