Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Police Say Arrests 'Effectively Halted' Scattered Spider Cybercrime CollectiveTwo leaders of the Scattered Spider hacking group received 66-month jail sentences in Britain's biggest cybercrime prosecution to date, after they disrupted London's transport authority, causing $39 million in losses and recovery costs. How to deter young hackers remains an ongoing challenge.

Cybercrime Gang ShinyHunters Claimed to Steal 9M RecordsMedtronic has told federal authorities that cybercriminals hacked its corporate IT systems, but said the incident did not affect the medical device makers' products, manufacturing or distribution operations. Cybercrime gang ShinyHunters reportedly claimed responsibility for the hack.

Leaked Financial and Admissions Data Includes Contact Details for 'Top Donors'Harvard University has been named as a victim and doxed by hack-and-leak group ShinyHunters, apparently as a result of the cybercrime group's ongoing "live phishing" attacks that often attempt to trick IT help desks into giving attackers direct access to a victim's network and cloud-based data.

Leaked Financial and Admissions Data Includes Contact Details for 'Top Donors'Harvard University has been named as a victim and doxed by hack-and-leak group ShinyHunters, apparently as a result of the cybercrime group's ongoing "live phishing" attacks that often attempt to trick IT help desks into giving attackers direct access to a victim's network and cloud-based data.

2023 Incident Affected More Than 650,000 Patients, EmployeesAn upstate New York orthopedic practice has agreed to pay state regulators a $500,000 settlement and implement stronger security practices following a 2023 hack involving the theft of 650,000 individuals' sensitive information. Cybercrime group INC Ransom reportedly claimed credit for the incident.

Also: macOS Naughty or Nice, Cybercrime Karma, Spoofing Legacy Rail InfrastructureLondon in December: Early to dark, quick to rain but also festive - and a mecca for cybersecurity researchers there for the annual Black Hat Europe conference. This year's event featured nearly 50 briefings that touched on everything from hardware hacking to combing infostealer logs for hidden gems.

WormGPT 4 Sells for $50 Monthly, While KawaiiGPT Goes Open SourceThe cybercrime-as-a-service model has a new product line, with malicious large language models built without ethical guardrails selling on Telegram for $50 monthly or distributed free on GitHub. Others groups are taking the open-source route.

Carmaker Resumes Full ProductionThe September cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover resulted in a company loss of roughly $260 million, the British carmaker reported Friday while also announcing a resumption of normal production. Cybercrime group "Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters" took responsibility for the hack.

Medusa Group Tied to Attack on SimonMed and Threats to Leak Stolen DataTwo radiology practices are notifying nearly 1.5 million people of separate hacking incidents compromising their sensitive health information. Cybercrime gang Medusa claimed credit for attacking Arizona-based SimonMed Imaging in January and threatened to leak the stolen data of nearly 1.3 million patients on the darkweb.

Medusa Group Tied to Attack on SimonMed and Threats to Leak Stolen DataTwo radiology practices are notifying nearly 1.5 million people of separate hacking incidents compromising their sensitive health information. Cybercrime gang Medusa claimed credit for attacking Arizona-based SimonMed Imaging in January and threatened to leak the stolen data of nearly 1.3 million patients on the darkweb.

Bayhealth Medical Center Was Among Cybercrime Group's Many 2024 Healthcare VictimsBayhealth Medical Center in Delaware - an alleged victim of a 2024 hack by the "notorious" and prolific ransomware gang Rhysida that resulted in a breach affecting nearly a half-million people - has agreed to a preliminary settlement in a proposed class action lawsuit stemming from the incident.

Cybercrime Group ShinyHunters Advertises 160 Million Stolen RecordsVietnam's central bank is probing a hack attack that breached its credit reporting division, exposing personally identifiable information. The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed credit for the breach, advertising on a cybercrime forum 160 million stolen records for $175,000.

Cybercrime Gang Monti Listed 84-Bed Rural Hospital Among Its Victims Last SummerA public Georgia community hospital is notifying more than 163,000 individuals that their sensitive health information was compromised in a June 2024 ransomware attack. The cybercriminal gang Monti on its dark website last summer claimed Wayne Memorial Hospital as one of its victims.

Cyber Extortion Campaign Automated Efforts to 'Unprecedented' Degree, Says AI GiantArtificial intelligence giant Anthropic said it's disrupted a cybercrime operation that tapped its large language models, including Claude Code, to an "unprecedented" extent to help automate a data theft and extortion campaign that targeted more than a dozen critical infrastructure organizations.

RomCom Group Deployed SnipBot, RustyClaw and Mythic Agent VariantsA Russian speaking hacking group is exploiting a zero-day flaw in WinRAR, a sign of the group's growing sophistication and evolution from a cybercrime outfit into a cyberespionage operation. The campaign exploited a vulnerability now tracked as CVE-2025-8088, a path traversal vulnerability.

Cybercrime Group Bian Lian Claimed Responsibility for Attack Last YearA Texas-based firm that conducts workplace drug and alcohol testing for private employers and for compliance with state and federal agencies, including the Department of Transportation, disclosed to regulators that a July 2024 hacking incident affected nearly 750,000 people.

Hacking Group UNC6148 Steals Credentials With New OVERSTEP Rootkit, Google SaysA cybercrime group used a backdoor in a fully patched SonicWall appliance to steal credentials and may have sold the stolen data to ransomware groups as part of an ongoing campaign, Google Threat Intelligence Group found. The firm attributed the campaign to a cybercrime group it tracks as UNC6148.

Suspects Tied to April Ransomware Attacks Against Retailers M&S, Co-Op, HarrodsThe U.K.'s National Crime Agency on Thursday arrested in England four suspected members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective, as part of an ongoing investigation into major, disruptive hack attacks in April against major retailers Marks & Spencer, the Co-Op and Harrods.

Notorious Site Facilitated Buying and Selling of Breached Databases, Hacking ToolsFrench police have reportedly busted five suspected hackers - "IntelBroker," "ShinyHunters," "Hollow," "Noct" and "Depressed" - tied to the operation of the notorious cybercrime site BreachForums, which facilitated the buying and selling of stolen databases and hacking tools.

Onslought Also Paved Way for Rise of English-Speaking HackersAn international law enforcement crackdown on the LockBit ransomware group caused fragmentation and distrust among Russian-speaking cybercrime groups, paving the way for English-speaking hacking groups to gain prominence, experts said Tuesday during a London conference.