The record-breaking deal has already received a green light from the US government. The post EU Sets February Deadline for Verdict on Google’s $32B Wiz Acquisition appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic has become the latest Artificial intelligence (AI) company to announce a new suite of features that allows users of its Claude platform to better understand their health information. Under an initiative called Claude for Healthcare, the company said U.S. subscribers of Claude Pro and Max plans can opt toRead More »Anthropic Launches Claude AI for Healthcare with Secure Health Record Access
The company will use the investment to accelerate platform adoption and expansion into the federal market. The post Torq Raises $140 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on two service providers that supply online criminal networks with the necessary tools and infrastructure to fuel the pig butchering-as-a-service (PBaaS) economy. At least since 2016, Chinese-speaking criminal groups have erected industrial-scale scam centers across Southeast Asia, creating special economic zones that are devoted toRead More »Researchers Uncover Service Providers Fueling Industrial-Scale Pig Butchering Fraud
UH officials refused to provide key information, including which cancer research project had been affected or how much UH paid the hackers to regain access to files. The post Hackers Accessed University of Hawaii Cancer Center Patient Data; They Weren’t Immediately Notified appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Threat actors exploited Cloudflare’s free-tier infrastructure and legitimate Python environments to deploy the AsyncRAT remote access trojan, demonstrating advanced evasion techniques that abuse trusted cloud services for malicious operations.
The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic, maritime, financial, and telecom entities in the Middle East with a Rust-based implant codenamed RustyWater. “The campaign uses icon spoofing and malicious Word documents to deliver Rust based implants capable of asynchronous C2, anti-analysis,Read More »MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors
Europol on Friday announced the arrest of 34 individuals in Spain who are alleged to be part of an international criminal organization called Black Axe. As part of an operation conducted by the Spanish National Police, in coordination with the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office and Europol, 28 arrests wereRead More »Europol Arrests 34 Black Axe Members in Spain Over €5.9M Fraud and Organized Crime
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Chinese-speaking threat actors are suspected to have leveraged a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance as an initial access vector to deploy a VMware ESXi exploit that may have been developed as far back as February 2024. Cybersecurity firm Huntress, which observed the activity in December 2025 and stopped it before itRead More »China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines
