Hospital Sisters Health System Settlement

A fast-spreading malware campaign is abusing WhatsApp as both lure and launchpad. Carmaker Renault suffers a data breach. DrayTek patches a critical router flaw. CISA alerts cover a range of vulnerabilities. A new phishing kit lowers the bar for convincing lures. A Catholic hospital network pays $7.6 million to settle data breach litigation. A major breach at FEMA exposes employee data. Google expands Gmail’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) capabilities. On our Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Brian Vecci, Field CTO at Varonis, discussing move fast but don’t break things: Innovating at light speed without putting data at risk. The UK’s digital ID is a solution in search of a mandate.

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On our Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Brian Vecci, Field CTO at Varonis, discussing move fast but don’t break things: Innovating at light speed without putting data at risk. You can listen to Brian’s full conversation here.

Selected Reading

Threat Actors Leveraging WhatsApp Messages to Attack Windows Systems With SORVEPOTEL Malware (Cybersecurity News)

Major car maker confirms customer data stolen in cyber attack (The Independent)

Unauthenticated RCE Flaw Patched in DrayTek Routers  (SecurityWeek)

Organizations Warned of Exploited Meteobridge Vulnerability (SecurityWeek)

CISA Releases Two Industrial Control Systems Advisories (CISA.gov)

New ‘point-and-click’ phishing kit simplifies malicious attachment creation (SC Media)

Hospital Chain to Pay $7.6M to Settle Breach Litigation (Bank Inforsecurity)

FEMA cyber breach exposes employee data (SC Media)

Gmail business users can now send encrypted emails to anyone (Bleeping Computer)

UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest (The Register)

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