Data Breaches
NYC Health + Hospitals confirmed an intrusion through an unnamed third-party vendor exposed personal and medical data of at least 1.8 million individuals, including stolen biometric fingerprint records. The first major US public-hospital disclosure to confirm biometric loss.
Threat Intelligence
Salt Typhoon spent three months inside an Azerbaijani oil and gas company — a target type it normally ignores. Bitdefender's assessment of why is the part that matters: Chinese APT targeting now follows energy geopolitics in real time.
Data Breaches
Cerner discovered the breach in February 2025. Atrium Health patients only learned this week. The 15-month gap — across 16 health systems through one Oracle-owned vendor — is the year's clearest HIPAA business-associate accountability test.
Policy & Government
The FCC extended the security update cutoff for foreign-made routers and drones from March 2027 to January 2029. The import ban on the Covered List remains. Netgear and Eero hold conditional approval through October 2027.
Critical Infrastructure
West Pharmaceutical Services disclosed a disruptive ransomware attack via SEC Form 8-K on May 7, took global systems offline, and engaged Palo Alto Unit 42. The pharma-packaging CI adjacency just became a documented sector risk.
Critical Infrastructure
The ICO fined South Staffordshire Water nearly GBP 1 million over a Cl0p attack that exposed 633,887 records. Hackers sat undetected for 20 months. Only 5 percent of the IT environment was monitored.
Trending
Participants in the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program face hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential debt as Trump administration hiring freezes have led federal agencies to rescind job and internship offers. The Trump administration has proposed cutting SFS funding by 65 percent.
Trending
After more than a year of the second Trump administration, observers across the political spectrum told CyberScoop that CISA has been significantly diminished, losing roughly one-third of its personnel.
Trending
Trend Micro publishes full technical attribution of Shadow-Earth-053 — confirming the China-linked group targets journalists and civil society activists alongside governments and defense sectors across Asia and one NATO member state.
Trending
A previously undocumented China-linked threat group tracked as Shadow-Earth-053 has infiltrated 12+ critical networks across Poland and Asian nations — targeting defense contractors, government agencies, and transport infrastructure.
Threat Intelligence
Poland is experiencing a sharp rise in state-linked cyberattacks primarily sourced from Russia, with officials warning that the spread of advanced AI tools will intensify the threat — following a December 2025 power grid attack that came within hours of a nationwide blackout. WARSAW, POLAND — Poland is facing a documented
Vulnerabilities
CISA has flagged a data-theft vulnerability in GrassMarlin, an open-source OT network analysis tool developed by the NSA. The tool reached end-of-life in 2017 and no patch will be released. A public proof-of-concept exploit is already available on GitHub. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Cybersecurity