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Following the publication of the critical Linux security vulnerability, security specialists released PoC exploits to test the implications of CVE-2023-4911.

Simulated ransomware attacks aimed to improve healthcare cyber threat mitigation efforts will be conducted by the University of California San Diego School of Medicine's new Center for Health Care Cybersecurity using the $9.5 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, EdScoop reports.

Nearly $900 million worth of cryptocurrency had been laundered by North Korea's Lazarus Group through cross-chain bridges from July 2022 to July 2023, making the state-backed hacking operation a primary driver of the 111% growth in proceeds sent through cross-chain bridges during the same period, The Hacker News reports.

Major cloud software provider Blackbaud has agreed to pay $49.5 million to 49 U.S. states in an effort to resolve allegations of consumer protection and breach notification law, as well as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, violations that resulted in a massive ransomware attack in 2020, reports BleepingComputer.

MGM Resorts has confirmed that customer data had been stolen in a ransomware attack that cost the global hospitality and entertainment company nearly $100 million in total damages, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

The District of Columbia Board of Elections has disclosed that 600,000 lines of voter records have been compromised in an attack by the RansomedVC ransomware operation against its website hosting provider, CyberScoop reports.

BleepingComputer reports that Michigan-based Flagstar Bank had personal data from 837,390 customers across the U.S. stolen after its third-party mobile banking and payment processing provider Fiserv was impacted by the widespread MOVEit hack by the Cl0p ransomware operation, which has already compromised more than 64 million individuals across 2,000 organizations around the world.

Data scraping attack against 23andMe hits 1.3M Major U.S. biotechnology and genetic testing firm 23andMe was discovered by a security researcher to have had data from more than 1.3 million Ashkenazi Jew and Chinese users compromised in a data scraping incident, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Global IT products and services reseller CDW has been threatened to have its stolen data exposed by the LockBit ransomware operation on Oct. 11 after the company refused to meet the demanded ransom, according to The Register.

Reuters reports that Spain had numerous private and public websites impacted by a wave of distributed denial-of-service attacks claimed by pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName amid an ongoing European Union summit.