Key Takeaways: Enterprise customers are seeking answers after Alation acknowledged a cyberattack involving unauthorized activity in one of its systems. The disclosure followed an earlier service incident that affect...
Key Takeaways: The SANS Internet Storm Center is tracking a wave of several thousand scan events that appear designed to reach cloud instance metadata services through server-side request forgery, or SSRF. Johannes Ullrich described the activity in the August 20, 2026 edition of Stormcast, noting that the requests
Key Takeaways: TRM Labs has detailed how artificial intelligence and machine learning are being used to trace illicit cryptocurrency flows, detect suspicious behavior, and map criminal infrastructure across blockchains. Its central argument is straightforward: public transaction data may be transparent, but the vo
Key Takeaways: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is moving the Rural Health Transformation Program from policy into execution, creating a substantial technology and services opportunity across rural healthcare. Established through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the program allocates $50 billion o
Key Takeaways: The week’s security activity carried a familiar warning: expensive incidents do not always begin with sophisticated access. Sometimes an exposed service, a compromised credential or a missed update is enough. Attackers then add persistence, steal authenticated sessions or use ransomware to complicat
Key Takeaways: General Electric (GE) and Philips are investigating cybersecurity incidents after the Clop ransomware gang claimed to have breached their systems and stolen sensitive data, adding two major industrial and medical technology names to a widening extortion campaign. GE said it was aware of Clop’s claim
Key Takeaways: Shared Health is continuing recovery work at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre and Cancer Care Manitoba after ransomware disrupted building maintenance systems. The attack was discovered on Aug. 10, and the health authority said in an Aug. 17 update that patient care had not been affected. The impac
Key Takeaways: Acronis has outlined a 12-control ransomware resilience plan for IT departments and managed service providers, tying operational security practices to capabilities in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud. The plan arrives as ransomware becomes both more common and more operationally complicated. The Verizon
Key Takeaways: Shell is investigating a potential data breach after the Cl0p ransomware group claimed to have stolen 89GB of corporate information. The inquiry places Shell among the latest high-profile businesses confronting an increasingly common form of cyber extortion: attackers alleging large-scale data theft
Key Takeaways: Koninklijke Philips N.V. has updated its long-term relationship agreement with Exor N.V., giving its largest shareholder the option to increase its stake to as much as 22% of Philips’ issued ordinary share capital and voting rights. The revised ceiling is up from 20%. It does not, by itself, mean Ex