A couple of federal notices are lead stories and then a mix of attacks and patches. Then Yoda makes an appearance in the Phishy Phirewalls section!
General
- Feds Issue Warning to U.S. Healthcare Orgs – Iran-backed cyber actors are targeting these orgs and gaining access to their networks for future ransomware attacks.
- FBI Issues Urgent Ransomware Attack Warning—Do These 3 Things Now
Cyber Attacks
- Payment gateway Slim CD breach affects 1.7M credit card owners – Attackers maintained persistent in the environment for a year.
- Data leak at a Florida recruitment company has affected 10k medical workers. – this leak was due to cloud storage misconfiguration.
- EngageMED Provides Notice of Data Breach Affecting Patients’ Confidential Info
- Ransomware attack forces high school in London to close and send students home
- Acadian Ambulance Notifying Nearly 3 Million of Data Theft
- Data breach hits $90b cybersecurity giant Fortinet – no one is immune to attack.
Vulnerabilities, Malware, & Patches
- Android’s September 2024 Update Patches Exploited Vulnerability – Patch now, as some of the addressed vulnerabilities are already being exploited.
- D-Link Warns of Code Execution Flaws in Discontinued Router Model – This is why a technology lifecycle strategy is so important.
- Chrome 128 Update Resolves High-Severity Vulnerabilities
- Microsoft fixes at least four zero-days in September Patch Tuesday
- Ivanti fixes critical vulnerabilities in Endpoint Management
Phishy Phirewalls – the lighter side of IT!
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