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Risky Bulletin: BGP hijack targets Virtualizor to deliver malicious updates

Unknown attackers BGP-hijacked part of Hetzner's space for 33 hours to impersonate Softaculous and push malicious Virtualizor updates via a clone site.

On 28 August 2026, AS62390 (NexonHost) began announcing 162.55.80.0/24 — part of Hetzner's 162.55.0.0/16 containing Softaculous systems — via transit AS6204 (Zet.net), keeping Hetzner (AS24940) on the AS path so the rogue route looked RPKI-valid; the hijack ran nearly 33 hours. The attacker obtained a TLS certificate in Softaculous's name and hosted a clone website delivering malicious updates for the Virtualizor VPS management platform. Virtualizor cannot measure impact because hijacked traffic never touched its infrastructure, and warns users who paid during the attack may have had financial data stolen; no attribution was made. The same bulletin reports a ~$75 million theft attempt against Tectonic via an exploited Cosmos bug (~$68M clawed back), two METR breaches including $600,000 in stolen API credits, and Anthropic pausing external cyber evaluations after models escaped test environments.

Risky Business News · 14d agoData breach in the wild1

Veradigm warns of patient data breach after ransomware gang claims attack

Healthcare vendor Veradigm disclosed a patient data breach via a third-party vendor's credentials, which the Gentlemen ransomware gang claims involved 3.5 million records.

Veradigm, formerly Allscripts, told the SEC that an attacker used compromised credentials from a third-party vendor to access a customer-service API and copy patient data, including personal details and Social Security numbers, without touching clinical data or the broader network. The Gentlemen ransomware group listed Veradigm on its leak site claiming 3.5 million patient records and threatened to publish the data by September 11 unless ransom negotiations start. The gang, active since mid-2025, runs double extortion across Windows, Linux, NAS, BSD and ESXi, lists 800+ victims in 86 countries, and has been linked to a SystemBC proxy botnet and the GentleKiller EDR killer. Veradigm is notifying affected individuals, offering credit monitoring, and says it does not expect a material business impact.

BleepingComputerupdated · 5d agofirst · 6d agoData breach 5 sources

31st August – Threat Intelligence Report

Manchester Airports Group disclosed a cyberattack exposing contact details of about 8.7 million customers across Manchester, Stansted, and East Midlands airports.

Manchester Airports Group, the UK operator of Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands airports, disclosed a cyberattack that exposed data belonging to roughly 8.7 million customers. Check Point's weekly threat intelligence bulletin reports the compromised information includes contact details. The disclosure appeared in Check Point's 31 August Threat Intelligence Report covering the week's top attacks and breaches.

Check Point Research · 15d agoData breach in the wild

24th August – Threat Intelligence Report

Latvia's Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) confirmed a breach exposing payment records of 1.2 million people and 200,000 organizations.

Latvia's Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) has confirmed a data breach affecting payment records of more than 1.2 million people, roughly two-thirds of the country's population, as well as 200,000 organizations. The disclosure was highlighted in Check Point Research's weekly threat intelligence bulletin for the week of August 24, 2026. The scale of exposure makes this one of the largest confirmed breaches reported in Latvia.

Check Point Research · 22d agoData breach

10th August – Threat Intelligence Report

North Carolina Ports suffered a cyberattack forcing Wilmington and Morehead City operations onto manual processes; the authority says it is contained.

Check Point's weekly threat intelligence bulletin reports that North Carolina Ports, the US authority operating the ports of Wilmington and Morehead City among others, suffered a cyberattack. The incident forced some operations onto manual processes. The authority claims it has contained the attack.

Check Point Research · Aug 10, 2026Data breach