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Healthcare facilities operator Nutex says patient, employee data stolen in August incident

The Gentlemen ransomware gang claims the theft of patient and employee data from healthcare operator Nutex Health, which disclosed the extortion in SEC filings.

Nutex Health said in an 8-K filing that intruders broke into its servers and exfiltrated patient, employee, provider and confidential financial data, and that it is being extorted with threats to publish the information. A Texas class action was filed after the company's August 24 disclosure, and Nutex cannot yet estimate the incident's impact. The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service gang, active since September 2025 and believed Russia-based, listed Nutex on its leak site; Dragos ranked it third among groups attacking industrial organizations in Q2 2026 with 125 claimed attacks.

The Record · 15d agoRansomware

Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets

Aurora ransomware operators used Cursor AI running Claude Sonnet to plan and execute intrusions against dozens of organizations in nine countries.

CloudSEK and Gambit Security analyzed exposed infrastructure tied to the Russian-speaking Aurora (Aur0ra) group, revealing months of activity against more than 20 organizations across nine countries between April and July 2026, with 33 victims listed by Ransomware.Live. The operator used the Cursor agentic coding assistant to plan attacks in Russian, including an AD CS exploitation plan, and Gambit observed Cursor Agent (running Anthropic's Claude Sonnet) performing hands-on exploitation tasks such as Nmap scanning, NetExec enumeration, NTLM relay, and certificate attacks against 10 targets. Attacks begin with email bombing plus IT help desk vishing via Xray-core, followed by SMB/LDAP/WinRM/RDP lateral movement, log clearing, Defender disabling, and exfiltration; the Windows and Linux/ESXi encryptors are built from a single Zig codebase, with shadow copy deletion and VM-killing before encryption.

The Hacker News · 16d agoRansomware in the wild1