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Episource breach exposed data of 5.4M patients across the US. Linked to UnitedHealth’s Optum, the health tech firm was hit by a ransomware attack in early 2025. This article has been indexed from Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech,… Read more → The post UnitedHealth-Linked Health Tech Firm Episource Breach Hits 5.4M Patients appeared first on IT Security News.

Someone’s OVERSTEPing the mark Unknown miscreants are exploiting fully patched, end-of-life SonicWall VPNs to deploy a previously unknown backdoor and rootkit, likely for data theft and extortion, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group.… This article has been indexed from The… Read more → The post Crims hijacking fully patched SonicWall VPNs to deploy stealthy backdoor and rootkit appeared first on IT Security News.

A former US army colonel faces up to ten years in prison after revealing national secrets on a foreign dating app. This article has been indexed from Malwarebytes Read the original article: Dating app scammer cons former US army colonel… Read more → The post Dating app scammer cons former US army colonel into leaking national secrets appeared first on IT Security News.

A threat actor that may be financially motivated is targeting SonicWall devices with a backdoor and user-mode rootkit. The post SonicWall SMA Appliances Targeted With New ‘Overstep’ Malware appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek Read… Read more → The post SonicWall SMA Appliances Targeted With New ‘Overstep’ Malware appeared first on IT Security News.

For the fifth time this year, Google has patched a Chrome zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-6558) exploited by attackers in the wild. About CVE-2025-6558 CVE-2025-6558 is a high-severity vulnerability that stems from incorrect validation of untrusted input in ANGLE – the Almost… Read more → The post Update Google Chrome to fix actively exploited zero-day (CVE-2025-6558) appeared first on IT Security News.

7 posts were published in the last hour 12:35 : Cut Response Time with This Free, Powerful Threat Intelligence Service 12:35 : Google’s AI ‘Big Sleep’ Detects Critical SQLite 0-Day, Halts Ongoing Attacks 12:34 : Windows Secure Boot Certificate Expired… Read more → The post IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-07-16 15h : 7 posts appeared first on IT Security News.

A few months ago, I wrote a diary about online services used to exfiltrate data[1]. In this diary, I mentioned some well-known services. One of them was catbox.moe[2]. Recently, I found a sample that was trying to download some payload… Read more → The post More Free File Sharing Services Abuse, (Wed, Jul 16th) appeared first on IT Security News.

The modern marketing stack and every effective marketing platform runs on data. From ad campaigns to user journeys,… This article has been indexed from Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech, AI & Crypto Read the original article: Data-Driven Marketing… Read more → The post Data-Driven Marketing in 2025: Navigating Risks, Ethics and Compliance Management appeared first on IT Security News.

The Department of Defense (DoD) revealed that an advanced persistent threat (APT) group, known as Salt Typhoon and publicly identified as Chinese state-sponsored actors, had successfully penetrated a U.S. state’s Army National Guard network in a major increase in cyberthreats.… Read more → The post Chinese ‘Salt Typhoon’ Hackers Infiltrated US National Guard Network for Almost a Year appeared first on IT Security News.

Security researchers have uncovered a critical chain of vulnerabilities in Samsung’s WEA453e wireless access point that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute commands with full administrative privileges. The flaws, discovered in August 2020, demonstrate how seemingly minor web interface oversights… Read more → The post Samsung WLAN AP Flaws Let Remote Attackers Run Commands as Root appeared first on IT Security News.