How often have you read concerns that patient information can be used for fraudulent purposes or that patient records can be altered by wrongdoers? Here’s a case where the wrongdoer is a doctor who altered patient records and inserted false diagnoses to defraud insurers — to the tune of over $118 million in false claims….
VanHelsing ransomware builder leaked on hacking forum
Lawrence Abrams reports: The VanHelsing ransomware-as-a-service operation published the source code for its affiliate panel, data leak blog, and Windows encryptor builder after an old developer tried to sell it on the RAMP cybercrime forum. […] As first reported by Emanuele De Lucia, the VanHelsing operators decided to beat the seller to punch, releasing the source code…
Hack of Opexus Was at Root of Massive Federal Data Breach
This breach may not turn out to be the biggest insider breach of 2025, but it may well turn out to be one of the most impactful. Jason Leopold reports: A software company that handles sensitive data for nearly every US federal agency was the victim of a cyber breach earlier this year due to…
‘Deep concern’ for domestic abuse survivors as cybercriminals expected to publish confidential abuse survivors’ addresses
Alexander Martin reports: Sensitive information about women and girls who have survived domestic abuse is now expected to be exposed through a data extortion incident impacting the British government’s Legal Aid Agency, potentially revealing their locations to abusers and in some cases requiring them to move homes. The government confirmed the incident on Monday, saying everyone who applied for…
Western intelligence agencies unite to expose Russian hacking campaign against logistics and tech firms
Alexander Martin reports: A notorious Russian hacking unit was blamed on Wednesday for conducting a widespread campaign that officials say “presents a serious risk” to the targeted organizations and sectors in more than a dozen countries. In a joint cybersecurity advisory co-sealed by what appears to be a record number of allied countries (11) and intelligence agencies…
Disrupting Lumma Stealer: Microsoft leads global action against favored cybercrime tool
Steven Masada, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, writes: Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) and international partners are disrupting the leading tool used to indiscriminately steal sensitive personal and organizational information to facilitate cybercrime. On Tuesday, May 13, Microsoft’s DCU filed a legal action against Lumma Stealer (“Lumma”), which is the favored info-stealing malware used by…