Boston Scientific says cyberattack disrupted operations globally

Medical technology company Boston Scientific has been targeted in a cyberattack that disrupted some of its IT systems, causing operational disruptions globally. The company detected the incident on August 25 and says in an announcement today that it caused a network outage and “impacted access to certain operating systems and business applications, including the ability to process […]

FBI disrupts proxy network enabling Chinese espionage operations

The FBI has disrupted infrastructure associated with a technical “quartermaster” that provided reconnaissance, proxy management, and operational routing capabilities for Chinese cyber espionage activities. According to the Department of Justice, a threat actor known as QTFY/QT/QTCYBER utilized two “hacking platforms known as ‘QScan’ and ‘QTRouter,’” in attacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks. Among QTFY’s […]

Ubiquiti patches three max severity security vulnerabilities

Ubiquiti has released security patches for three new maximum-severity vulnerabilities that threat actors can exploit remotely without privileges. The first (tracked as CVE-2026-77537) lets unauthenticated attackers compromise unpatched devices by exploiting an improper input validation weakness in the UniFi Protect Application video surveillance management platform. Ubiquiti also addressed a CRLF injection flaw (CVE-2026-77550) that remote […]

Massive DDoS attack disrupts Norway’s government digital services

A large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has disrupted Norway’s shared government digital infrastructure since Monday, affecting services used by the public sector. The attack started at 03.38 CEST on Monday and has targeted  the infrastructure supporting services operated by the Norwegian Digitalization Agency, Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Digdir), and its operations provider, Vivicta. Digdir operates Norway’s shared digital […]

Hospital operator Nutex Health says data stolen in cyberattack

Healthcare and services provider Nutex is investigating a data breach incident where an unauthorized third party exfiltrated information from company servers. The organization has disclosed the cyberattack in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), noting that the stolen data includes details that may be private or confidential. “Based on preliminary findings from […]

From Fake Workers to Account Recovery: The Growing Identity Verification Risk

Security teams have spent years hardening authentication, with controls like multi-factor authentication (MFA) and conditional access now commonplace. While stronger authentication can make traditional credential theft less effective, it doesn’t solve every identity problem. There are several points in the identity lifecycle where trust is established or re-established: When a new employee joins. When someone […]