As part of its scheduled Patch Tuesday updates, Adobe documented 72 distinct security bugs and called special attention to code-execution defects in the widely deployed Adobe Acrobat and Reader software. In a critical-severity bulletin, Adobe documented at least 17 Acrobat and Reader bugs that expose unpatched Windows and macOS systems to arbitrary code execution and…
The FBI may have successfully disrupted the destructive Hive ransomware operation earlier this year, but the group’s malware code continues to present a threat to organizations everywhere. In October, a security researcher’s analysis of a ransomware used by new group called Hunters International showed substantial code overlaps with Hive ransomware. A subsequent analysis by Bitdefender…
Bringing its security and data analysis capabilities to a new potential audience, data security and multicloud data management provider Cohesity is now taking signups for access to its Turing generative AI features via Amazon’s Bedrock front-end for cloud-based AI. Cohesity Turing’s AWS-available features, the company announced Monday, will center on three main areas. The first…
McLaren Health Care (McLaren) disclosed a data breach that occurred between late July and August. The security breach exposed the sensitive personal information of 2,192,515 people. McLaren Health Care is a nonprofit health care organization based in Grand Blanc, Michigan, USA. It is a $6.6 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality,…
A San Diego public hospital is diverting ambulances and patients to other facilities as it deals with a cyberattack detected early Thursday. The medical center is the latest among a growing roster of regional healthcare providers forced to suddenly shift patients to neighboring entities due to a cybersecurity crisis. Tri-City Medical Center is an acute…
OpenAI confirmed earlier today that the outage suffered by ChatGPT and its API on Wednesday was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. “We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack. We are continuing work to mitigate this.” reads the update posted by OpenAI on its…
A shared IT services provider and its five Ontario member hospitals say their recovery from a Daixin Team ransomware attack in October could last into December as the group rebuilds its IT network. Meanwhile, the outage will continue to disrupt patient services, including diagnostics and treatments. TransForm Shared Service Organization and the regional hospitals to…
When researchers responded to an ad to join up with a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, they wound up in a cybercriminal job interview with one of the most active threat actors in the affiliate business, who turns out to be behind at least five different strains of ransomware. Meet “farnetwork,” who was unmasked after giving over…
The signs an average person uses to tell whether an email is legitimate or a scam by checking for misspellings, grammar errors, and lack of cultural context will be harder to spot in 2024. Attackers will continue to use generative AI and large language models (LLM) in phishing, SMS, and other social engineering operations to…
Facebook is the most secure social networking site among the major players, thanks to improved privacy controls and support for more secure two-factor authentication technology, but the social media sector as a whole remains vulnerable to different types of account takeover. According to a study released Tuesday by access management vendor Cerby, the biggest area…
Adobe Patch Tuesday: Critical Bugs in Acrobat, Reader, ColdFusion
