Aman Mishra reports: A formidable new strain of ransomware, dubbed Lyrix, has recently surfaced, posing a significant threat to Windows users worldwide. […] Lyrix ransomware stands out due to its ability to bypass traditional antivirus solutions by employing polymorphic code, which constantly mutates to avoid signature-based detection. Once infiltrated, the malware stealthily maps the target…
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Central Maine Healthcare tackles suspected cybersecurity issue; hospitals remain open
Central Maine Healthcare posted a notice on its Facebook page today: On June 1, 2025, technicians monitoring the information systems at Central Maine Healthcare identified unusual activity within the system’s computer software. In response, they immediately secured and shut off all information technology applications and hardware, including network servers and phone systems. Central Maine Medical…
Cartier Data Breach: Luxury Retailer Warns Customers that Personal Data Was Exposed
Another luxury brand has been hacked. This time it’s Cartier. And before your brain starts racing back to the recent disclosures of breaches involving Dior and Tiffany no, Cartier is not another luxury LVMH brands. Cartier is owned by Richemont. SecurityWeek reports: According to a notification sent to affected clients obtained by SecurityWeek, the compromised data…
Beyond the Pond Phish: Unraveling Lazarus Group’s Evolving Tactics
Unchained reports: Researchers at crypto exchange BitMEX on Friday said that they had uncovered several critical missteps that North Korean state-sponsored hacker group Lazarus had made during its campaigns. Those lapses included exposed IP addresses, an accessible Supabase database, and tracking algorithms. One finding was a rare slip-up in which a hacker likely revealed their real IP…
Akira doesn’t keep its promises to victims — SuspectFile
Over on SuspectFile, @amvinfe has been busy exposing Akira’s false promises to its victims. In two posts this week, he reports on what happened with one business in New Jersey and one in Germany that decided to pay Akira’s ransom demands. He was able to report on it all because Akira failed to secure its…
Fraudsters, murderers, students: who the GRU assembled a team of hacker provocateurs from and why it failed
The Insider reports: In September 2024, the FBI published an indictment against a group of hackers working for GRU Unit 29155, the same military unit that became famous for poisoning Skripal in Salisbury. It has long been known that the GRU has hacker units, The Insider was the first to prove this back in 2017, and then it was…