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HIPAA Journal · · US Federal

Feds Issues Advisory About SafePay Ransomware Group

U.S. federal agencies including CISA, the FBI, and the Secret Service have issued a joint advisory warning about the SafePay ransomware group. The advisory, which also involves international cybersecurity partners, signals that SafePay is considered a significant and active threat.

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BleepingComputer · · International

Stolen UpdraftCentral keys used to backdoor WordPress sites

A threat actor breached TeamUpdraft's website, a developer of popular WordPress backup and security plugins, potentially compromising UpdraftCentral connection keys that can send commands to connected websites. [...]

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BleepingComputer · · International

Mozilla, Google, Apple block compromised eMudhra CA certificates

Certificate authority eMudhra revoked eight intermediate certificates after researchers discovered their private keys were weak enough to be cracked almost instantly, potentially allowing anyone to forge certificates for legitimate websites. Mozilla, Google, and Apple moved to block the compromised certificates in their browsers and platforms.

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BleepingComputer · · International

PHP warns admins of two critical flaws, emergency patches coming tomorrow

The PHP security team is warning administrators to prepare for emergency security updates tomorrow to address two critical vulnerabilities, as information about the flaws has reportedly leaked ahead of their scheduled disclosure. [...]

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BleepingComputer · · International

Zeabur shutting down after second security breach in two months

Zeabur, a development platform, suffered a second security breach within two months after an attacker accessed internal credentials stored in plaintext, exposing over 3.2 million environment variable records and data from more than 321,000 accounts. The company is shutting down following the incident.

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The Record · · International

California warns all public school students of data stolen in contractor breach

California's Department of Education has warned public school students statewide that Educational Testing Service, a contractor that handles student assessments, experienced a data breach lasting several months. The department issued multiple statements over the past week notifying students that their information was affected.

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The Record · · International

23andMe successor settles with California for $6 million over cybersecurity failings

California's attorney general reached a $6 million settlement with 23andMe's successor company over claims that 23andMe failed to adequately secure customer data before a breach in 2023. The settlement resolves state allegations tied to the company's cybersecurity practices at the time of the incident.

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HIPAA Journal · · US Federal

California Settles 23andMe Data Breach Lawsuit for $6 Million

California has reached a $6 million settlement with 23andMe over a data breach, separate from an $18 million multistate settlement that 42 attorneys general agreed to earlier. The agreements resolve legal claims stemming from the breach of the genetic testing company's customer data.

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CyberScoop · · US Federal

ConnectWise customers hit by supply-chain attack linked to compromised API secret

Hundreds of ConnectWise customers have been caught up in a supply-chain attack after a compromised API secret gave attackers a path into connected Microsoft 365 environments. The stolen credential allowed the intrusion to proceed without triggering normal access controls.

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DataBreaches.net · · International

Qilin and INC Ransomware Groups Exploit Palo Alto Networks Flaw to Bypass MFA

Ravie Lakshmanan reports: Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that it’s continuing to observe exploitation of a now-patched security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access by ransomware actors. The activity relates to CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass flaw that could be exploited by bad actors to set up unauthorized VPN connections. It was patched... Source

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HIPAA Journal · · US Federal

Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians Data Breach Affects 1.4 Million Patients

Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians, one of the largest independent primary care groups in the country, has disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 1.4 million patients. The breach is significant in scale, touching a large share of the patient population served by the physician-owned group.

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HIPAA Journal · · US Federal

$80 Million Settlement Proposed to Resolve Conduent Data Breach Litigation

A proposed $80 million settlement has been put forward to resolve a consolidated class action lawsuit against Conduent Business Services over a data breach. The case was covered by The HIPAA Journal, suggesting the breach involved protected health or personal information handled by the business services company.

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DataBreaches.net · · International

Welsh firms ‘Password1’ and ‘Test 2’ fails led to hackers stealing children’s data

Two Welsh organizations, Ogi Networks Limited and Data Cymru, were reprimanded by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office after a ransomware attack exposed personal data on roughly 3,300 people, most of them children. Weak passwords were identified as a key failure that allowed the breach to occur.

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DataBreaches.net · · International

Attorney General Tong Announces $625,000 Settlement with Frontier Over Data Breach

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong settled with Frontier Communications for $625,000 following an investigation into an April 2024 data breach carried out by ransomware group RansomHub, which exposed sensitive personal information belonging to Frontier customers.

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Schneier on Security · · International

Possible new Cellebrite iPhone Radio Zero-Day

A leaked internal Cellebrite document describes a new product called Advanced Unlocks, apparently set for release in 2026, that reportedly can access iPhones wirelessly from about eight meters away and works even when Apple's Stolen Device Protection is active.

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The Record · · International

Defense contractors in two NATO allies hacked in recent Russia-linked campaign

Researchers say APT28, the Russian hacking group also known as Fancy Bear, used a newly documented backdoor to breach the networks of defense contractors and a law enforcement agency in two NATO member countries. The group maintained persistent access inside the targeted organizations before being detected.

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ICO · · UK

“'Password1’ is not an appropriate password”: Two Welsh organisations reprimanded after cyber-attack exposed children’s information

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office reprimanded two Welsh organisations after a cyber-attack exposed personal information belonging to children. Weak passwords, including 'Password1,' were cited as a contributing factor in the security failure.

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T The Washington Post · · International

AI & Tech Brief: Anthropic’s leaked bill

A bill connected to Anthropic was reportedly leaked, drawing attention from The Washington Post. Details of the bill's contents and the circumstances of the leak have not been disclosed in available reporting.

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