Federal agencies, state governments, municipalities, and public-sector contractors have become priority targets for nation-state actors and ransomware groups. Below is every government-sector breach LeakTrace has indexed.
The Texas-based pharmaceutical company McKesson A cyberattack is causing service issues for the pharmaceutical and healthcare technology company McKesson informed regulators it is in the early stages of investigating a c
Cloud architectures designed to withstand human attackers are facing a new threat: AI agents that rewrite the rules on the pace and scope of attacks. The recent OpenAI incident involving Hugging Face offers an early e
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.
Infostealers can steal active Claude sessions, bypass 2FA and drain paid usage. Anthropic is revoking access and refunding unauthorized charges. Anthropic confirmed that several infostealer malware can hijack an active C
FulcrumSec says it stole over 80 GB of data from Manchester Airports Group and plans to leak it online. The post Extortion Group Claims Manchester Airports Group Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Governing Mayor Kai Wegner said on Friday that Berlin had received an extortion demand following the cyberattack, which was discovered in mid-August.
One of Slovenia’s largest gambling and tourism groups has begun reopening its casinos after a cyberattack forced them to shut down for several days.
The boring parts caused most of the trouble. A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted systems collected traffic and passwords, then cleaned the logs. Old bugs formed new
A tip about Click2Mail was not the only interesting tip DataBreaches received on Thursday. We also received an email from someone who identified themself as a patient at Blossom Health, a US-based telehealth and psychiat
The company has called in CrowdStrike and others to investigate the attack that caused global network disruption. The post Boston Scientific Still Recovering From Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Berlin's city administration has confirmed that cybercriminals are attempting to extort the city after the Rhysida ransomware gang listed it on their data leak site. [...]
The Rhysida ransomware group has claimed the exfiltration of over 5TB of data, including personal information and credentials. The post Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A threat actor used a variety of infostealers to collect session information and access Claude accounts belonging to an unknown number of users.
A coalition led by OpenAI is warning that AI will sharply accelerate the speed and scale of cyberattacks, leaving enterprises with a narrowing window to fix long-standing security weaknesses before they are exploited.
The AI giant is logging customers out of their accounts and removing payment data to prevent unauthorized Claude usage. The post Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections appeared first on SecurityWe
Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudS
Abigail Ham reports: The U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs says some veterans getting services through the White River Junction, Vt. healthcare system may have had their personal information exposed in an uninte
Anthropic is warning some Claude users that infostealer malware on their PCs has stolen active Claude login sessions, allowing attackers to access accounts and consume their usage. [...]
Extortion group FulcrumSec claims they stole 86GB of Manchester Airports Group data after finding API credentials exposed in client-side JavaScript. Manchester Airports Group (MAG) disclosed a data breach on August 27 af
Rick Lane reports: A massive cache of internal builds from Valve has reportedly leaked online, including beta builds of several classic Valve titles and possible weapons from Half-Life 2’s cancelled third episode.
AJ Vicens and Raphael Satter report: U.S. officials are backpedaling on claims that several government agencies were hacked by Chinese spies, now saying that the organizations were among the hackers’ targets. In a
A cyberattack caused disruptions at the toy and game giant earlier this year and the company is now disclosing a data breach. The post Hasbro Data Breach Exposed Employee Personal Information appeared first on SecurityWe
Berlin ‘s government faces a Rhysida ransomware attack weeks before elections, with officials refusing to pay despite a claimed 5.79 TB data theft. Berlin’s state government confirmed this week it’s dea
DPA reports: The Berlin state government has declined to comment on the demands made by hackers who targeted the city’s administrative data network two weeks ago, a spokeswoman said on Saturday. The government is a