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Li Rui/Xinhua via Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 26, 2026 02:22 PM ET The plans come as several states face water system intrusions from what some official suspect could be linked to Iran. * White House * Critical Infrastructure * Cyber Threats The White House will soon
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A cyberattack on U.S. medical device maker Boston Scientific is causing an ongoing “global disruption” to its operations, according to a federal regulatory filing on Wednesday, the latest healthtech giant to face a cyberattack in recent weeks. The Massachusetts-based company, which makes medically implanted devices like pacemakers and defibrillators,
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A security agent read a Cloudflare log, found an attacker’s prompt-injection payload sitting inside it, and rewrote the company’s DNS. The firewall had already blocked that payload, and blocking it is what wrote it into the log. That chain is GhostJacking, which Tenet Security demonstrated on the DEF
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* ShinyHunters adds CyrusOne to its victim list, demanding $13m ransom * Claimed theft includes 12.9 million Salesforce records, 600GB SharePoint data, PII, contracts, and facility diagrams * Breach could enable physical intrusions and supply‑chain attacks; CyrusOne has not commented or paid The infamous ShinyHunters ransomware crew has added CyrusOne, a
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The FBI has seized a series of domains that were used by a large-scale botnet to coordinate and launch China-backed cyberattacks against American targets. According to the Justice Department’s statement on Wednesday, the seizures of the botnet’s domains deny the operators access to the platforms. The botnet was
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kritsapong jieantaratip/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 26, 2026 12:28 PM ET A hacking group used the tools to target networks belonging to NASA, the Federal Reserve, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Senate and the departments of Energy, Justice and Health and
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No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing Medical device maker Boston Scientific’s global operations have been disrupted by an ongoing cyberattack, the company disclosed on Wednesday. According to an SEC filing, the “cybersecurity incident” affecting its IT systems started on Tuesday, and resulted in a “global
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The best Mac VPNs enhance your privacy while also giving you the option to unblock international streaming content. The providers we’ve picked offer excellent MacOS apps that are intuitive and don’t skimp on useful privacy features — particularly split tunneling, which some VPNs have struggled to implement. Surfshark is
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Ransomware activity hit a year-to-date high of 894 victim organization listings in July. * The Gentleman, new ransomware groups, and agentic AI are responsible. * However, cybercriminal egos might be inflating the numbers. New NCC Group research
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AI is transforming everything around us but, thus far, it has largely remained contained to the digital realm. Increasingly, however, startups are looking to take it into the real world. Perceptron, a startup started by two former Meta research scientists, is one such company. Founded in November 2024, the firm
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Everyone has a backlog. Now there’s a deadline. Let’s get one thing out of the way early: your remediation backlog is not a personal failing. Every organization has one. Every organization has always had one. Somewhere in your environment there is a storage bucket whose owner left the
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By Mayank Mishra, Senior Regional Director for India and SAARC, Cohesity India has gone digital at a fast and massive scale. In just a few years, platforms like Aadhaar (digital identity), UPI (real-time payments), and DigiLocker (secure digital document storage) have become indispensable tools for hundreds of millions of people.
