Collaborate Disseminate
Carly Page reports: Turns out the fastest way to get a company to consider paying a ransom isn’t calling the CEO – it’s targeting the 46-year-old IT manager. That’s according to Zscaler, whose ThreatLabz researchers tracked 351 victim… Continue reading Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
Katie Chavez reports: Suisun City officials declared a state of emergency Saturday, Aug. 8, after a cyberattack took out the city’s emergency dispatch line and other key systems. City officials said that “malicious software infected and compromised IT … Continue reading City of Suisun declares local emergency after cyberattack downs 911 dispatch system
An update on the ransomware attack affecting the City of Coweta: the city manager has been through a ransomware attack before with another city, and reports that after they paid, they were reinfected weeks later, so Coweta will not be paying any ransom… Continue reading City of Coweta refuses to pay ransom after system-wide cyberattack
Emma Woollacott reports: European firms are more concerned about a potential US government-imposed ‘kill switch’ for cloud services than almost anything else. In a survey of 1,500 businesses in the UK, France, and Germany, Proton found that… Continue reading US cloud ‘kill switch’ is as dangerous as ransomware, European businesses fear
A press release from the NYS DFS: August 5, 2026 New York State Department of Financial Services Acting Superintendent Kaitlin Asrow announced today that Order Express, Inc., a licensed money transmitter, will pay a $250,000 penalty for violations of D… Continue reading New York State Department of Financial Services Secures Cybersecurity Settlement with Order Express, Inc.
KTUL in Oklahoma reports: The City of Coweta says they are currently responding to a ransomware attack. According to officials, on Werdnesday, August 5, the City experienced at system-wide attack and immediately contacted their contracted IT provider a… Continue reading City of Coweta hit with system-wide ransomware attack, has backup
Naomi Diaz reports: Boston Children’s Hospital is among roughly a dozen organizations publicly named by security researcher Vangelis Stykas as impacted by a large-scale North Korean hacking operation, Wired reported Aug. 5. The hospital disputes that i… Continue reading Boston Children’s Hospital named in North Korean hacking operation
Kristian Silva and Danny The personal information of Victorian court users has been posted on the dark web, sparking a police investigation. Names, emails and job titles of people who attended online hearings in regional courts were posted on an underg… Continue reading AU: Hackers leak sensitive Victorian court data to dark web
Alcino Donadel reports: …. Instructure, the edtech company behind learning management system Canvas, suffered one of the largest data breaches in the U.S. this year after cybercriminals gained access through a third-party vendor—an increasingly c… Continue reading What Canvas learned from a massive cyberattack
HIPAA Journal reports an update to the Unlimited Technology Systems breach that occurred between October 10 – 15, 2025, and was discovered on October 19, 2025: On July 23, 2026, the HIPAA Journal reported on a data breach at Unlimited Technology … Continue reading Unlimited Technology Systems Data Breach Affects 3.8 Million Patients