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Anna Ribeiro reports: A joint investigation by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter teams details evidence that operators linked to the Lazarus hacker group are deploying Medusa ransomware in ongoing extortion campaigns targeting the U.S. health… Continue reading Lazarus hackers adopt Medusa ransomware for extortion campaigns, targeting healthcare and nonprofits
Connor Jones reports: Two South Korean teenagers were this week charged with breaching Seoul’s public bike service, Ttareungyi. Identified only as Persons A and B, the pair, now of high school age, allegedly carried out the attack on Ttareungyi i… Continue reading Korean cops charge teens over bike hire breach that exposed data on 4.62M riders
Daniel Verlaan reports: The cybercriminal group Shinyhunters is responsible for hacking Odido. On the dark web, Odido is being pressured to pay the ransom—over a million euros. “This is your final warning,” the hackers write. “Otherwi… Continue reading Hackers threaten to leak 8 million people’s stolen data if Dutch telecom Odido won’t pay ransom
1News reports: A digital medical records data company has been taken offline after some patient records were modified. Some users’ information had been changed, including to say they were deceased. MediMap is used by some health providers in aged… Continue reading Some patients listed as “Charlie Kirk” or dead after major NZ health app MediMap hacked
Maggie Miller, Dana Nickel and Antoaneta Roussi report: NATO countries’ restrained response to hybrid attacks is at odds with public opinion, new polling shows: Broad swaths of the public in key allied countries say actions such as cyberattacks on hosp… Continue reading Top NATO allies believe cyberattacks on hospitals are an act of war. They’re still struggling to fight back.
The hospitality sector has long been a target of hackers, and it’s a global problem. Here are three recent attacks in the news this week: In the U.S.: Choice Hotels International disclosed a breach affecting franchisees and applicants. Its notifi… Continue reading The hospitality sector continues to be lucrative targets
As seen on InformNapalm: On February 18, 2026, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy imposed sanctions against Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka for his role in escalating and prolonging Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine. One of the sta… Continue reading Ukrainian hackers uncover how Russian drone operators are using Belarus
This could be the smallest breach DataBreaches has reported recently, and yet we are covering it instead of other, much bigger breaches that will undoubtedly generate lots of headlines. Why? Because it represents a refreshing example of quick response … Continue reading This is how you do it: Dentist speaks out after practice hit by cyber attack
Interesting Engineering reports: A newly uncovered flaw in Discord’s age verification rollout has added fresh pressure to the company’s 2026 compliance plans. Security researchers recently found that frontend components tied to identity vendor Persona … Continue reading Discord’s age verification data has a frontend leak — now what?
Pieter Arntz reports: Google has issued a patch for a high‑severity Chrome zero‑day, tracked as CVE‑2026‑2441, a memory bug in how the browser handles certain font features that attackers are already exploiting. CVE-2026-2441 has the questionable honor… Continue reading Update Chrome now: Zero-day bug allows code execution via malicious webpages