Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

MultiCare Health CISO Jason Elrod on Need for Faster Cyber ResilienceEmerging AI tools can identify and exploit software vulnerabilities within minutes, forcing healthcare organizations to rethink cyber strategies. Jason Elrod, CISO of MultiCare Health System, explains why exploitability management, microsegmentation and AI-driven resilience matter more than ever.

Also, Europol Cracks DDoS Networks, Mythos Finds Bugs, France Portal HitThis week, scam compounds. Attackers exploit flaws pre-disclosure. A crackdown on DDoS-for-hire. No Mythos for CISA, yes for Mozilla. France ID portal breach. Israeli and Venezuelan critical infrastructure targeted. Russian hacking in Ukraine. An Apache flaw. A ransomware negotiator aided BlackCat.

Cisco's Jeetu Patel on How Machine-Speed Threats Drive Need for AI-Led SecurityCisco's Jeetu Patel explains how AI models are compressing exploit timelines to minutes, forcing a shift to machine-speed defense, real-time enforcement and deeper ecosystem collaboration to secure critical infrastructure and stay ahead of adversaries.

Suit Alleges Competitor Lets 'Shell Firms' Exploit National Data ExchangesElectronic health records giant Epic Systems is accusing a rival health information network vendor, Health Gorilla, of enabling a syndicate of "sham" entities "masquerading" as healthcare providers to improperly access patient records from national health data exchanges in pursuit of money.

NIST Seeks Input to Protect AI Systems Used in Government, Critical InfrastructureThe National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking public input from security experts and stakeholders to weigh in on security threats from agentic AI warning they may be vulnerable to exploits like hijacking, backdoors and misaligned behavior across federal networks.

Misconfigured Customer Network Edge Devices' Under Fire, Warn ResearchersMisconfigured edge devices hosted in the cloud are giving nation-state hackers carte blanche to access Western critical infrastructure, warn threat intelligence experts at Amazon, who tied exploits of AWS customers' device administrator portals to Russia's GRU military intelligence agency.

Also: F5 Revenue Dips, Swedish Utility Operator BreachedThis week, critical infrastructure breaches in Canada, a Swedish grid operator breached, an Australian guilty of selling cyber exploits, Gmail wasn't breached, F5 projected a revenue dip, PhantomRaven targeted developers, a Pakistan-linked actor targeted India and Dentsu confirmed a data breach.

Airport Baggage Carousels Are Weapons, in the Right HandsConsider the airport baggage carousel. It's big, clunky and tedious to wait by. But look at it like a war planner does, and it's suddenly very different: An almost certainly poorly secured technology system that foreign adversaries could exploit to disrupt military mobilization across the United States.

State-Sponsored Espionage Group Tied to Exploits of No-Longer-Supported Cisco GearRussian intelligence hackers are using obsolete and unpatched equipment made by networking mainstay Cisco Systems to further stealthy and ongoing cyberespionage operations, the U.S. federal government warned Wednesday. Hackers exploit a vulnerability in the Smart Install feature of Cisco devices.

Successful Breaches Renew Fears of Operational Vulnerabilities Across Water SectorRussia is suspected of escalating cyberattacks on European water utilities, including attempts to sabotage Polish and Norwegian water facilities and dams, signaling a broader threat to global critical infrastructure as state-backed actors exploit critical OT weaknesses amid global conflict.

Space Policy and Tech Head Paul Liias on Dealing With Satellite VulnerabilitiesA major disruption of civil and military satellites could cause chaos on the ground to communications, navigation and other vital services. But the threats don't just come from missiles. They also comes from hackers who could exploit numerous vulnerabilities, said Estonia's Paul Liias.

UAT-5918 Breaches Taiwan's Critical Sectors Using N-Day Flaws for CyberespionageHackers with ties to China-based hacking groups including Volt Typhoon are breaching Taiwan's critical infrastructure by exploiting unpatched web and application servers as entry points for a cyberespionage campaign. Cisco Talos threat hunters identified the new threat actor as UAT-5918.

AG Says HealthAlliance Tried But Failed to Fix Zero-Day Flaw That Led to ExploitNew York State has levied a $550,000 fine against a healthcare group that tried - but failed - to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in a Citrix NetScaler appliance used for telemedicine. Hackers exploited the flaw, stealing 196 gigabytes of data in an incident affecting 242,000 people.

Researchers Discover 20 Critical Flaws Attackers Could Exploit in a Variety of WaysResearchers identified 20 critical vulnerabilities in a type of Advantech industrial-grade wireless access point that's widely deployed across critical infrastructure environments. Attackers could exploit the flaws to remotely executive code and create denials of service.

HHS Alerts on Scattered Spider, Living of the Land, Miracle Exploit, F5 AttacksFederal authorities are warning the healthcare sector of an array of cyberthreats - including Scattered Spider hacks, living-off-the-land attacks, and bad actors looking to exploit weaknesses such as F5 misconfigurations and also so-called "Miracle Exploit" flaws in some Oracle software.

Experts Speculate About Whether the Hack Involved the ScreenConnect Flaw ExploitPharmacies at U.S. military hospitals and clinics worldwide are among the entities affected by the cyberattack on Optum's Change Healthcare this week, which has forced the IT services company to take many of its applications offline. Change Healthcare disconnected its IT systems on Wednesday.

Beijing Used FortiGate Vulnerability to Install TrojanChinese espionage hackers penetrated Dutch military systems in early 2023, using a zero-day exploit in a Fortinet virtual private network to obtain access, Netherlands intelligence agencies disclosed Tuesday. They attributed the hacking to Chinese state actors with high confidence.

TA422 Is Targeting Organizations in Europe and North America, Proofpoint SaysA Russian military hacking intelligence group is winning the race to exploit known vulnerabilities before system administrators can apply patches, warns Proofpoint. The firm has seen a spike in activity from TA422, also known as APT28, Fancy Bear and Forest Blizzard.

Urgent Action Needed to Prevent Ransomware Attacks Involving Vulnerability ExploitA recent spike in ransomware attacks has prompted federal regulators and the American Hospital Association to issue urgent warnings to hospitals and other healthcare firms to prevent potential exploitation of the Citrix Bleed software flaw affecting some NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway devices.

Military Intelligence Exploits Microsoft Flaw Patched In MarchRussian military intelligence hackers active in Poland are exploiting a patched flaw in Microsoft Outlook, say cyber defenders from Redmond and Warsaw. Microsoft in a Monday post identifies the hackers as Forest Blizzard, also known as APT28 and Fancy Bear.