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- UnitedHealth confirms 190 million Americans affected by Change Healthcare data breach – UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected around 190 million people in America — nearly double previous estimates.
- Salt Typhoon: An Analysis of Vulnerabilities Exploited by this State-Sponsored Actor – Salt Typhoon, a state-sponsored actor linked to the People’s Republic of China, has breached at least nine U.S.-based telecommunications companies with the intent to target high profile government and political figures. Tenable Research examines the tactics, techniques and procedures of this threat actor.
- Volt Typhoon: U.S. Critical Infrastructure Targeted by State-Sponsored Actors – Volt Typhoon, a state-sponsored actor linked to the People’s Republic of China, has consistently targeted U.S. critical infrastructure with the intent to maintain persistent access. Tenable Research examines the tactics, techniques and procedures of this threat actor.
- Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws – Flaws also allowed access to one year of location history.
- British Museum says ex-contractor ‘shut down’ IT systems, wreaked havoc – Former freelancer cuffed a week after being dismissed by UK’s top visitor attraction
- Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more – Side channel gives unauthenticated remote attackers access they should never have.
- Mastercard’s multi-year DNS cut-and-paste nightmare – What is frightening about this mistake is not how much damage cyberthieves could have done, but how easy it is to make and how difficult it is to discover.
- MGM agrees to pay $45 million to victims of 2019 data breach and 2023 ransomware attack – MGM Resorts International agreed to pay $45 million to settle multiple class action lawsuits related to a data breach in 2019 and a ransomware attack the company experienced in 2023.
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- Darknet Dairies – 153: Bike Index