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Cyberattack disrupts University of New Mexico hospitals, extortion group claims attack

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Cyberattack disrupts University of New Mexico hospitals, extortion group claims attack 2026-10-27 at 14:24 By Zeljka Zorz University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center (HSC), the academic medical arm of the University of New Mexico, has suffered a cyberattack that has temporarily disrupted the operation of its hospitals and may have resulted in a […]

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FBI job portals remain offline after ShinyHunters claims breach via PeopleSoft zero-day

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FBI job portals remain offline after ShinyHunters claims breach via PeopleSoft zero-day 2026-09-28 at 16:56 By Zeljka Zorz The FBI’s online portals for job applicants (at apply.fbijobs.gov) and special agent applicants (at fbijobs.gov/special-agents) are still unavailable, following what appears to be successful compromises by the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group. Last week, the United States’ domestic […]

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McKesson Confirms Data Breach as Attacker Deadline Looms

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McKesson Confirms Data Breach as Attacker Deadline Looms 2026-08-31 at 16:14 By Ionut Arghire The ShinyHunters extortion group has claimed the theft of 284 million records from the company’s systems. The post McKesson Confirms Data Breach as Attacker Deadline Looms appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Cl0p Ransomware Group Names Over 40 Victims of PTC Windchill Campaign

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Cl0p Ransomware Group Names Over 40 Victims of PTC Windchill Campaign 2026-08-19 at 14:07 By Eduard Kovacs The cybercrime gang has listed major companies such as Shell, Philips, Fiserv, Zebra, Mindray, and Largan Precision. The post Cl0p Ransomware Group Names Over 40 Victims of PTC Windchill Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an […]

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Klue breach lead to Salesforce data theft, Huntress affected

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Klue breach lead to Salesforce data theft, Huntress affected 2026-06-19 at 15:57 By Zeljka Zorz Cybersecurity vendor Huntress was among multiple companies hit by a breach originating at Klue, a market intelligence platform used to integrate CRM and sales data across various business tools. Huntress published a detailed account of the incident on June 18, […]

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Oracle PeopleSoft servers under attack, Oracle pushes out-of-band security alert

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Oracle PeopleSoft servers under attack, Oracle pushes out-of-band security alert 2026-06-11 at 15:41 By Zeljka Zorz A zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-35273) in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools is being exploited in the wild, Charles Carmakal, CTO at cybersecurity firm Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, warned today. The warning comes a day after Oracle published an out-of-band security alert […]

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Attackers accessed, downloaded code from Grafana Labs’ GitHub

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Attackers accessed, downloaded code from Grafana Labs’ GitHub 2026-05-18 at 12:57 By Zeljka Zorz A threat actor has managed to access Grafana Labs’ GitHub environment and download the company’s codebase, the open-source observability and data visualization firm announced on Sunday. The breach is significant given Grafana Labs’ widespread use across enterprise engineering and DevOps teams […]

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Software supply chain hacks trigger wave of intrusions, data theft

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Software supply chain hacks trigger wave of intrusions, data theft 2026-04-02 at 18:58 By Zeljka Zorz After linking the Axios npm supply chain attack to North Korean hackers, Google researchers warned that “hundreds of thousands of stolen secrets could potentially be circulating” as a result of this and the Trivy, KICS, LiteLLM, and Telnyx supply […]

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Russian initial access broker helped ransomware gangs extort millions, sentenced to 81 months

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Russian initial access broker helped ransomware gangs extort millions, sentenced to 81 months 2026-03-24 at 19:53 By Sinisa Markovic A Russian citizen, Aleksei Volkov, was sentenced to 81 months in prison for helping ransomware groups carry out attacks causing over $9 million in actual losses and over $24 million in intended losses, after being arrested […]

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Extortion Group Claims It Hacked AstraZeneca

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Extortion Group Claims It Hacked AstraZeneca 2026-03-24 at 19:53 By Ionut Arghire The Lapsus$ hackers allegedly compromised internal code repositories, credentials, and employee data. The post Extortion Group Claims It Hacked AstraZeneca appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Terminated contract led to $2.5 million cyber extortion scheme

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Terminated contract led to $2.5 million cyber extortion scheme 2026-03-20 at 19:32 By Sinisa Markovic A federal jury convicted Cameron Curry, 27, a Charlotte resident, of carrying out an extensive cyber extortion scheme targeting a Washington, D.C.-based international technology company. He faces up to two years in prison on each of the six charges. Curry, […]

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Hundreds of Salesforce Customers Allegedly Targeted in New Data Theft Campaign

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Hundreds of Salesforce Customers Allegedly Targeted in New Data Theft Campaign 2026-03-10 at 15:06 By Eduard Kovacs Salesforce has confirmed that customers are being targeted via poorly secured instances. The post Hundreds of Salesforce Customers Allegedly Targeted in New Data Theft Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original […]

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ShinyHunters flip the script on MFA in new data theft attacks

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ShinyHunters flip the script on MFA in new data theft attacks 2026-02-02 at 18:50 By Zeljka Zorz Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is supposed to defend against phishing attacks, but threat actors operating under the ShinyHunters banner are using it as a pretext in ongoing social engineering attacks aimed at bypassing it. Among those successfully targeted in […]

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RansomHub claims alleged breach of Apple partner Luxshare

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RansomHub claims alleged breach of Apple partner Luxshare 2026-01-21 at 14:34 By Zeljka Zorz Chinese electronic manufacturer and Apple partner Luxshare Precision Industry has allegedly been breached by affiliates of the RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service outfit. Luxshare is one of the primary assemblers of Apple’s wireless earbuds, iPhones, and Vision Pro devices, as well as a producer […]

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Retailers are learning to say no to ransom demands

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Retailers are learning to say no to ransom demands 2025-11-06 at 07:45 By Anamarija Pogorelec Ransomware remains one of the biggest operational risks for retailers, but the latest data shows a shift in how these attacks unfold. Fewer incidents now lead to data encryption, recovery costs have dropped, and businesses are bouncing back faster. Yet […]

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Ransomware, extortion groups adapt as payment rates reach historic lows

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Ransomware, extortion groups adapt as payment rates reach historic lows 2025-10-27 at 15:12 By Zeljka Zorz Ransomware groups are facing an economic downturn of their own: In Q3 2025, only 23 percent of victims paid a ransom, and for data theft incidents that involved no encryption, the payment rate dropped to just 19 percent, according […]

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Leaked Oracle EBS exploit scripts expected to drive new wave of attacks (CVE-2025-61882)

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Leaked Oracle EBS exploit scripts expected to drive new wave of attacks (CVE-2025-61882) 2025-10-07 at 15:36 By Zeljka Zorz Resecurity and watchTowr researchers have analyzed the leaked scripts used by attackers to exploit CVE-2025-61882 on internet-facing Oracle ESB instances. Whether the attackers were Cl0p or LAPSUS$, both, or even additional threat actors is still unknown, […]

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Hackers launch data leak site to extort 39 victims, or Salesforce

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Hackers launch data leak site to extort 39 victims, or Salesforce 2025-10-06 at 17:44 By Zeljka Zorz Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters launched a data leak site over the weekend, aiming to pressure organizations whose Salesforce databases they have plundered into paying to prevent the stolen data from being released. Screenshot of Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters data leak […]

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