Gunra is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) used by affiliates to target government, critical infrastructure, and other organizations. The Gunra ransomware variant first appeared in 2025 and expanded to RaaS operations in 2026. The actors leverage a double-extortion model, both encrypting data and threatening to publish exfiltrated data to a dedicated leak site (DLS) if the ransom...

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Park Hyo-jung reports: More than 460,000 pieces of personal data, including bank account and credit card information, were exposed in a breach at South Korean financial media outlet 3Pro TV. E-Broadcasting, the company that operates 3Pro TV, posted a notice on the outlet’s website saying it had confirmed that “an external actor illegally accessed the...

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Carly Page reports: Turns out the fastest way to get a company to consider paying a ransom isn’t calling the CEO – it’s targeting the 46-year-old IT manager. That’s according to Zscaler, whose ThreatLabz researchers tracked 351 victims across 334 organizations caught up in a single ransomware campaign over the course of a month. The data...

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Katie Chavez reports: Suisun City officials declared a state of emergency Saturday, Aug. 8, after a cyberattack took out the city’s emergency dispatch line and other key systems. City officials said that “malicious software infected and compromised IT systems” at about 5:45 a.m. on Friday. The cybersecurity issue forced the city to shut down its...

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An update on the ransomware attack affecting the City of Coweta: the city manager has been through a ransomware attack before with another city, and reports that after they paid, they were reinfected weeks later, so Coweta will not be paying any ransom demands. Threat actors who don’t keep their word do spoil it for...

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Emma Woollacott reports: European firms are more concerned about a potential US government-imposed ‘kill switch’ for cloud services than almost anything else. In a survey of 1,500 businesses in the UK, France, and Germany, Proton found that with many having built their operations around a small number of US-based providers, they’re worried that access to those platforms could be...

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A press release from the NYS DFS: August 5, 2026 New York State Department of Financial Services Acting Superintendent Kaitlin Asrow announced today that Order Express, Inc., a licensed money transmitter, will pay a $250,000 penalty for violations of DFS’s cybersecurity regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500). DFS investigators identified deficiencies in the company’s cybersecurity program...

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KTUL in Oklahoma reports: The City of Coweta says they are currently responding to a ransomware attack. According to officials, on Werdnesday, August 5, the City experienced at system-wide attack and immediately contacted their contracted IT provider and additional cycbersecurity professionals to secure their systems to prevent any further intrusion and to begin a recovery...

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Naomi Diaz reports: Boston Children’s Hospital is among roughly a dozen organizations publicly named by security researcher Vangelis Stykas as impacted by a large-scale North Korean hacking operation, Wired reported Aug. 5. The hospital disputes that its own systems were breached, saying the issue traced to a former contractor’s personal device. Mr. Stykas, chief technology officer at...

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Kristian Silva and Danny The personal information of Victorian court users has been posted on the dark web, sparking a police investigation. Names, emails and job titles of people who attended online hearings in regional courts were posted on an underground hacking forum in July. A user has claimed responsibility in a post. […] Court...

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Alcino Donadel reports: …. Instructure, the edtech company behind learning management system Canvas, suffered one of the largest data breaches in the U.S. this year after cybercriminals gained access through a third-party vendor—an increasingly common occurrence in higher ed. Higher education’s more meditative, governed approach to technological change is useful for reviewing rigor and long-term quality assurance, Pendleton...

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HIPAA Journal reports an update to the Unlimited Technology Systems breach that occurred between October 10 – 15, 2025, and was discovered on October 19, 2025: On July 23, 2026, the HIPAA Journal reported on a data breach at Unlimited Technology Systems, a Montgomery, Ohio-based provider of revenue cycle management services. At the time, the...

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There have been approximately 4 dozen new threat actor groups targeting U.S. medical entities in the first half of 2026. One of them calls itself “Orova.” They have no “About” page or information about themselves on their dark web leak site, so seeing that they had recently listed two U.S. medical entities, DataBreaches contacted them...

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There is an update to the case of Maksim Silnikau, who was extradited from Poland to the U.S. in August 2024 to stand trial here.  Ionut Arghire reports: The Belarusian creator and administrator of the Ransom Cartel ransomware was sentenced to 16 years in prison in the US. Maksim Silnikau, 40, built the ransomware operation...

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The NL Times reports: Online retailer Bol has warned customers about a data breach involving one of its logistics partners. The company said unauthorized parties accessed the partner’s systems, but emphasized that Bol’s own systems were not affected. Even so, some customer information may have been viewed or copied, the company said in a statement....

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Connor Riley Moucka, aka “Waifu” and “Judishe,” was scheduled to stand trial in January 2027. Today, he changed his “not guilty” plea to a guilty plea, and pleaded guilty to four counts of the multi-count indictment.   Connor Riley Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, pleaded guilty today to a widespread computer hacking conspiracy that resulted in...

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Emma Kirk reports: Updoc patients have been notified their personal information may have been accessed in a security breach. The website is used for 24/7 telehealth services across Australia. Customers were advised there was a “brief period of unauthorised access to a third party system” where hackers had access to names, email and postal addresses...

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Dysruption reports on a critical infrastructure attack in Utah that could have caused more damage than some other recent attacks: Sage Water Resources said workers stopped malicious changes to an automated controller at its oilfield wastewater disposal site near Duchesne, Utah, before the March 15 intrusion caused equipment failure or environmental damage. In an Aug....

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Stolen wallets are still a thing.  From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Kentucky: July 31, 2026 LEXINGTON, Ky. – An Orlando, Fl., man, Ivory Joe Pruitt, 61, was sentenced on Friday to 63 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Robert Wier for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Pruitt was also ordered to pay $137,392.74...

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Miranda Nazzaro reports: More than a dozen Republican attorneys general are calling on OpenAI to preserve records on its models’ recent breach of another company, suggesting the AI firm may have violated state or federal laws in the incident. In a letter sent Monday to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 15 attorneys general wrote the ChatGPT-maker may have...

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