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    Experts say healthcare faces cybersecurity crisis: ‘These are patient safety issues’

    Regulatory failures, funding constraints and industry consolidation have created serious hacking risks.

    By • Aug. 7, 2026
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    OpenAI warns autonomous hacks are ‘watershed moment for computer security’

    Company employees said their industry should rethink how it balances capabilities and safeguards.

    By • Aug. 5, 2026
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    Managing identity sprawl

    Cyber threat actors know the simplest way to hack into an enterprise and remain under the radar is with stolen, legitimate user credentials -- and cloud services and AI are making managing and securing digital identities more challenging than ever.

    By Cybersecurity Dive staff
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    Tech industry alliance proposes AI agent safety reporting program

    The information-sharing exchange is designed to widely share lessons learned from agentic AI security incidents.

    By • Aug. 4, 2026
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    AI makes costly spearphishing attacks easier, cyber insurer says

    Impersonation campaigns led to more than 85% of the losses that Resilience dealt with in the first half of the year, a dramatic increase from two years ago.

    By • Aug. 4, 2026
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    Anthropic says human error let Claude AI models escape test environment and hack third parties

    The company said its discovery, which followed OpenAI’s similar admission, proved the need for better testing guardrails.

    By • July 31, 2026
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    Hackers abuse Microsoft Teams in ransomware campaign through fake IT support

    Researchers said dozens of US and Canadian firms have been targeted, however, the motivation appears to be financial rather than espionage.

    By • July 30, 2026
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    As data breaches grow costlier, ungoverned AI creates new risks

    Meanwhile, many companies still aren’t doing the basics to protect on-premises data, IBM found.

    By • July 29, 2026
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    Coca-Cola restores most production capacity at dairy unit after ransomware attack

    The company said it does not expect the Fairlife disruption to have a material impact on financial performance or operations. 

    By • July 27, 2026
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    Threat group claims credit for ransomware attack on Coca-Cola’s dairy unit

    The attackers previously exploited vulnerabilities or used stolen credentials for initial access. 

    By • July 22, 2026
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    OpenAI models escaped containment, hacked major AI application library

    The attack is the first known instance of frontier models autonomously breaking out of a testing environment and into another company’s servers.

    By • July 22, 2026
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    Hackers steal customer data from major hospital software vendor

    The breach is another reminder of how vulnerable the healthcare industry is to supply-chain attacks.

    By • July 20, 2026
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    Abbott discloses cyberattack on cancer diagnostics business

    The cyberattack follows Abbott’s recent $21 billion purchase of Exact Sciences. Abbott did not disclose what kind of information was accessed.

    By Ricky Zipp • July 17, 2026
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    Data breach hits car insurance provider

    Hackers gained access to more than 6.9 million records at AssuranceAmerica by targeting a company employee.

    By • July 9, 2026
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    Ransomware ecosystem grows, but ‘four-headed monster’ dominates

    AI is helping hackers, a new report finds, but mostly by automating very human behaviors.

    By • July 9, 2026
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    Accenture faces massive data breach that could put clients at risk

    The threat actor claiming responsibility says they stole source code, encryption keys and more.

    By • July 8, 2026
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    Alleged member of Scattered Spider extradited to US

    A man with dual U.S.-Estonian citizenship was charged in connection to the hack of a luxury jewelry retailer.

    By • July 6, 2026
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    Most cybersecurity workers have been told to conceal a breach, report finds

    Security firm Bitdefender also found that U.S. companies were simultaneously more confident and more strained on cyber defense than foreign peers.

    By • July 2, 2026
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    Insurance body confirms hackers posted Oracle PeopleSoft breach data

    NAIC warned that some ratings agencies have suspended data feeds as a precaution. 

    By • Updated June 29, 2026
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    Ransomware attacks grew in 2025 as traditional data breaches fell

    In a new report, Bitsight charted a massive surge in internet-exposed AI services.

    By • June 24, 2026
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    Klue investigating supply chain attack that targeted Salesforce integrations

    Customer data from several prominent cybersecurity firms was among that of hundreds of potential enterprise victims.

    By • June 23, 2026
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    CISA urges device hardening after thousands of Fortinet credentials compromised

    Security researchers warn of a months-long FortiBleed campaign targeting western organizations.

    By • June 22, 2026
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    AI adoption correlates with incident frequency, underscoring need for governance

    Even organizations that haven’t been breached expect an AI-related incident in the near future, a new survey found.

    By • June 16, 2026
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    IT sector faces growing threats from IP-hungry China, AI-enabled cybercriminals

    Businesses also need to watch out for North Korean remote IT worker schemes, according to a new CrowdStrike report.

    By • June 9, 2026
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    Dozens of Red Hat npm packages targeted in supply chain attack

    Researchers said a variant of the Mini Shai-Hulud is involved in the compromise.

    By • June 2, 2026
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    Iranian government, not hacktivist group, breached LA Metro system, security firm says

    A report by Israel-based Gambit Security dismisses the hackers’ claims of being patriotic but unaffiliated activists.

    By • May 26, 2026