Healthcare cyberattacks hit pacemakers and millions of patient records
2026-09-01T07:23:52Z•8c9adf9d2166274a5f086f2fbc9d864c766e2c2fc1ba4e421deffbefa2d22d19
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What happened
A Register security feed covering major cyber incidents, active exploitation, ransomware and extortion, supply-chain compromises, phishing and ClickFix malware campaigns, AI-agent and prompt-injection risks, critical-infrastructure attacks, data breaches, credential theft, and high-severity vulnerabilities. Notable items include a PaperCut zero-day attack, urgent Oracle and TrueConf patching, attacks affecting healthcare, airports, utilities, government, and medical-device organizations, malicious Rust crates, OAuth phishing, and malware targeting AI service accounts. No explicit CVE IDs are2y
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