On September 22, WYPR reported: Luminis Health says it’s making considerable progress on restoring systems at two Maryland hospitals after they were hit by a cyberattack earlier this month. The company said in an online update that its telephone capabilities at Anne Arundel Medical Center and Doctors Community Medical Center in Lanham have been restored...

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An Armenian national and member of the Ryuk ransomware gang was sentenced to two years in federal prison for his role in launching attacks.

Abinaya reports: An Armenian national extradited from Ukraine to the United States has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in Ryuk ransomware attacks that targeted organizations worldwide, including a company in Oregon. Karen Vardanyan, 35, received a 24-month federal prison sentence followed by 3 years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s...

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Amir Kurz recently reported: Three weeks after his arrest, the State Attorney’s Office’s Cyber Department on Thursday filed a major indictment against Michael “Miki” Bar, a 43-year-old hacker from Ashkelon who served as Chief Information Security Officer for the Hamat Group. The group itself has no connection to the charges. According to the indictment, Bar...

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The attackers impersonate at least 40 companies and disable 145 security products to deploy infostealer malware.

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The malware relies on AI for real-time device navigation and control, increasing adaptability and evasion.

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Joseph McCarty reports: A Kansas county’s government says it has been hit by a ransomware attack. Ellis County discovered the attack on parts of its information technology systems Thursday morning. Officials said they “immediately took steps to contain the disruption” by isolating the affected systems and enlisting the help of cybersecurity experts. The county said...

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Hackers used a compromised API key to deploy a Cloudflare worker that injected malicious scripts.

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Alleged Chinese hackers are breaking into government agencies across Latin America using a new backdoor that researchers are calling “SparroWocky.”

Three Ukrainians are set to stand trial for allegedly stealing access to more than 610,000 Roblox accounts and selling them to buyers in Russia, authorities said.

Mike Stimpson reports: Some patient services may be affected as the general hospital in Nipigon responds to what it describes as a “cyber security incident.” An incident involving ransomware affected information technology systems, Nipigon District Memorial Hospital stated in a post on social media. […] Nipigon Mayor Suzanne Kukko told CFNO’s Al Cresswell “the hospital...

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US, UK, and Dutch government agencies published a report detailing the malware, and the FBI described the abuse of Telegram for C&C.

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DysruptionHub reports: Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, shut down its IT networks Aug. 14 after a disruption left its electronic health record, patient portal and internet access unavailable. The outage also disrupted diagnostic imaging. Hospital systems could not transmit images to radiologists, so the emergency department partially diverted trauma and critical...

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A Ukrainian national was sentenced to four years in a U.S. prison for his role in the notorious Conti ransomware operation, which targeted more than 1,000 victims worldwide before shutting down in 2022.

There’s an update to a previously reported case. From the Department of Justice, this press release: Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, a Ukrainian national, was sentenced today to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a conspiracy to deploy Conti, a ransomware variant that infected the computers of more than 1,000...

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A Google Chrome bug identified in August was exploited by at least four China-linked cyber-espionage groups, according to researchers.

Joseph Topping reports: Westfield Public Schools in New Jersey kept classrooms open during a districtwide network outage that disrupted communications and digital instruction throughout the first week of school. The district initially attributed the outage to equipment failure. “We have confirmed that a networking hardware failure caused the disruption across all district schools and offices,”...

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The high-severity, unauthenticated vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-25249 was patched in January 2026.

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Another trove of data from Berlin's government has appeared online, authorities said. Germany's information security agency separately warned about the Rhysida cybercrime group.

CyberKendra reports: A security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse has released FalconFlank, a proof-of-concept zero-day that escalates privileges on fully patched Windows machines running CrowdStrike Falcon. The researcher — who also uses the aliases Nightmare-Eclipse, MSNightmare, and INFINITE NIGHTMARE — published working exploit code to GitHub on September 3, 2026, without giving CrowdStrike advance notice. No CVE ID...

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