How to understand and avoid Advanced Persistent Threats

By definition, an advanced persistent threat APT is a prolonged, targeted attack on a specific victim with the intention to compromise their system and gain information from or about that target. About a decade ago, the term was mostly used for state-sponsored threat actors. I used threat actors...

UAT-10027 Targets U.S. Education and Healthcare with Dohdoor Backdoor

A previously undocumented threat activity cluster has been attributed to an ongoing malicious campaign targeting education and healthcare sectors in the U.S. since at least December 2025. The campaign is being tracked by Cisco Talos under the moniker UAT-10027. The end goal of the attacks is to...

The Conduent breach; from 10 million to 25 million (and counting)

The Conduent breach has quietly grown into one of the biggest third‑party data incidents in US history, and the real story now is how many different programs and employers are swept up in it, even for people who have never heard of Conduent. When we first covered this incident, public filings...

CVE-2025-67752 OpenEMR Has Disabled SSL Certificate Verification in HTTP Client

OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Prior to version 7.0.4, OpenEMR's HTTP client wrapper oeHttp/oeHttpRequest disables SSL/TLS certificate verification by default verify: false, making all external HTTPS connections vulnerable ...

PT-2026-21816

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenEMR versions prior to 7.0.4 Description OpenEMR’s HTTP client wrapper oeHttp/oeHttpRequest has a default setting that disables SSL/TLS certificate verification verify: false. This makes all external HTTPS connections susceptible to...

OpenEMR 安全漏洞

OpenEMR is a set of open-source medical management systems developed by the OpenEMR community. This system can be used for medical practice management, electronic medical records, prescription writing, and medical billing applications. Versions of OpenEMR prior to 8.0.0 contained security...

North Korean Lazarus Group Adopts Medusa Ransomware in Global Attacks

Lazarus Group is now using Medusa ransomware in attacks on healthcare and social services, signaling a move toward profit-focused cybercrime...

Lazarus Group Uses Medusa Ransomware in Middle East and U.S. Healthcare Attacks

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group aka Diamond Sleet and Pompilus has been observed using Medusa ransomware in an attack targeting an unnamed entity in the Middle East, according to a new report by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team. Broadcom's threat intelligence division said it...

Cloud Based WAF Upload Scan and Control: The New Standard for File Upload Security

We're excited to announce the launch of Upload Scan and Control, an essential new feature for Imperva Cloud WAF. This add-on tackles one of the most critical vulnerabilities facing web applications today—insecure file uploads—offering protection with scalability, simplicity, and enterprise-grade...

What Interoperability in Healthcare Really Means for Security and Privacy

Healthcare interoperability improves care but expands attack surfaces, increasing data exposure, compliance risk, and security challenges across connected systems...

From Digital Innovation to Patient Harm: Why Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Now a C-Suite Imperative

From Digital Innovation to Patient Harm: Why Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Now a C-Suite Imperative By John Fokker · January 27, 2026 For decades, healthcare systems were designed with one core principle: patient safety. Clinical devices operated in largely closed environments, disconnected from th...

Balancing Security and Privacy: The Pivotal Role of AI in Modern Healthcare Systems

As digital threats continue to grow, organizations must find ways to enhance security while protecting user privacy. This paper explores how artificial intelligence AI plays a crucial role in achieving this balance. AI technologies can improve security by detecting threats, monitoring systems, an...

Abusing the Internet of Medical Things: Evaluating Threat Models and Forensic Readiness for Multi-Vector Attacks on Connected Healthcare Devices

Individuals experiencing interpersonal violence IPV, who depend on medical devices, represent a uniquely vulnerable population as healthcare technologies become increasingly connected. Despite rapid growth in MedTech innovation and "health-at-home" ecosystems, the intersection of MedTech...

Anthropic Launches Claude AI for Healthcare with Secure Health Record Access

Anthropic has become the latest Artificial intelligence AI company to announce a new suite of features that allows users of its Claude platform to better understand their health information. Under an initiative called Claude for Healthcare , the company said U.S. subscribers of Claude Pro and Max...

CVE-2019-11687

An issue was discovered in the DICOM Part 10 File Format in the NEMA DICOM Standard 1995 through 2019b and continuing in current implementations. The 128-byte preamble of a DICOM file that complies with this specification can contain arbitrary executable headers for multiple operating systems,...

CVE-2025-8307

Asseco InfoMedica is a comprehensive solution used to manage both administrative and medical tasks in the healthcare sector. Passwords of all users are stored in a database in an encoded format. An attacker in possession of these encoded passwords is able to decode them by using an algorithm...

The Ghost in the Machine: Unmasking CrazyHunter's Stealth Tactics

The Ghost in the Machine: Unmasking CrazyHunter's Stealth Tactics By Aswath A · January 6, 2026 CrazyHunter ransomware has emerged as a significant and concerning threat, highlighting the increasing sophistication of cybercriminal tactics. Trellix has been actively tracking this ransomware since...

Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence AI overlords are a common trope in science-fiction dystopias, but the reality looks much more prosaic. The technologies of artificial intelligence are already pervading many aspects of democratic government, affecting our lives in ways both large and small. This has occurr...

Active Exploitation of 7-Zip RCE Vulnerability Shows Why Manual Patching is No Longer an Option

A critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability in 7-Zip CVE-2025-11001 is now being actively exploited. The issue stems from improper handling of symbolic links within crafted ZIP files. When a malicious archive is extracted, 7-Zip may write files outside the intended directory, allowing an...

An Evaluation Framework for Network IDS/IPS Datasets: Leveraging MITRE ATT&CK and Industry Relevance Metrics

The performance of Machine Learning ML and Deep Learning DL-based Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems IDS/IPS is critically dependent on the relevance and quality of the datasets used for training and evaluation. However, current AI model evaluation practices for developing IDS/IPS focus...