Cyberattacks
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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 Eric Geller • Aug. 7, 2026 -
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AI firms know policymakers won’t ‘let you make a Terminator factory,’ DHS official says
The Trump administration believes leading AI companies have learned important lessons from recent incidents and regulation isn’t necessary to preserve those lessons.
By Eric Geller • Aug. 7, 2026 -
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Hackers grow more willing to destroy, not just disrupt, OT systems
Experts said the alarming trend has further stressed infrastructure providers that are already struggling with strong passwords, comprehensive logging and other basics.
By Eric Geller • Aug. 6, 2026 -
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Western government leaders call for a focus on infrastructure resilience, not AI hype
U.S. and allied officials said companies should start preparing now for a cyberattack that changes how they provide essential services.
By Eric Geller • Aug. 5, 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 Eric Geller • Aug. 4, 2026 -
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Deep DiveHow volunteer cyber experts are helping protect rural water systems
A first-in-the-nation program is yielding promising results as it charts a path for supporting the U.S.’s most vulnerable infrastructure.
By Eric Geller • Aug. 3, 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 Eric Geller • July 31, 2026 -
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US authorities see ‘significant escalation’ in attacks on water system devices
Hackers have locked operators out of their own OT networks, modified passwords and changed IP addresses.
By David Jones • 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 David Jones • July 30, 2026 -
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Sponsored by Rein SecurityIn the Mythos era, security belongs at runtime
Frontier AI cut time-to-exploit from years to hours. Why defense now has to happen at runtime.
July 27, 2026 -
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Zero-day flaw in Check Point SmartConsole is under exploitation
Researchers warned the vulnerability offers an attacker the ability to make key changes to security configurations.
By David Jones • July 24, 2026 -
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CISA, FBI warn that Iran-linked hackers are expanding target set for water, energy
The agencies said threat groups have disrupted critical infrastructure sites by exploiting vulnerable PLC devices.
By David Jones • July 23, 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 David Jones • 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 Eric Geller • July 22, 2026 -
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Sponsored by Palo Alto Networks Inc.4 ways to secure local developer IDEs and tools without sacrificing velocity
Attention shifts from EDR to Agentic Endpoint Security to close visibility gaps that AI can exploit.
By Palo Alto Networks • July 21, 2026 -
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Ransomware victims fail to fix flaws that exposed them
Many organizations still aren’t securing their email or patching vulnerabilities after recovering from attacks, a new report found.
By Eric Geller • July 21, 2026 -
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Sponsored by Arctic WolfYour attack surface is bigger than you think
New data reveals where attack surfaces are hiding the most risk.
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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Ransomware attack forces Coca-Cola to suspend US production at dairy unit
The beverage company is still working to determine the full scope of the breach at its Fairlife business.
By David Jones • July 17, 2026 -
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Healthcare sector faces persistent supply-chain security, identity management challenges
A new report says doctors and nurses should train for cyberattacks the way firefighters train for major blazes — even if they expect them to be rare.
By Eric Geller • July 14, 2026 -
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Hackers find a new trick to collect Microsoft Entra user data without raising red flags
Organizations should check their logs for signs of an increasingly popular obfuscation technique, Proofpoint said.
By Eric Geller • July 13, 2026 -
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Sponsored by CensysWhen cybercriminals outrun the feed
How can you defend against yesterday?
By Alex Gartner, Principal Technical Product Lead at Censys • July 13, 2026 -
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Why schools are easy prey for hackers — and why they struggle to fight back
Power plants and gas pipelines might receive more attention, but schools are arguably more vulnerable.
By Eric Geller • July 6, 2026 -
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Sponsored by Abnormal AIThe security leaders defining the next decade aren’t in CISO seats yet
The first recognition program for the security leaders who will define the future of cybersecurity.
July 6, 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 Eric Geller • June 24, 2026
