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Settlement Is Latest Among Scores of Other MOVEit Lawsuits Still PendingNuance Communications, a Microsoft subsidiary, has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle class action litigation filed after hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Progress Software's MOVEit file transfer software in 2023, stealing data belonging to more than a dozen of Nuance's healthcare clients.

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.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that hackers linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) are targeting critical infrastructure organizations in attacks exploiting a 7-year-old vulnerability in 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.

In the past year, "Static Tundra," aka "Energetic Bear," has breached thousands of end-of-life Cisco devices unpatched against a 2018 flaw, in a campaign targeting enterprises and critical infrastructure.

Snarfing up config files for 'thousands' of devices…just for giggles, we're sure The FBI and security researchers today warned that Russian government spies exploited a seven-year-old bug in end-of-life Cisco networking devices to snoop around in American critical infrastructure networks and collect information on industrial systems.…

Common Weaknesses Healthcare Providers Must Overcome to Avoid Regulators' WrathRegulators have long pushed HIPAA-regulated providers to ensure their enterprise-wide security risk analysis is comprehensive and timely, so they can identify security issues before they become data breaches. Why do so many organizations struggle with this top HIPAA priority?

Organizations handling various forms of sensitive data or personally identifiable information (PII) require adherence to regulatory compliance standards and frameworks. These compliance standards also apply to organizations operating in regulated sectors such as healthcare, finance, government contracting, or education. Some of these standards and frameworks include, but are not limited to: