Illinois is set to bolster oversight of healthcare facility mergers and acquisitions from 1 January via the recently signed HB 2222 bill. The legislation requires facilities to inform Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul within 30 days of any proposed changes, with non-compliance resulting in potential penalties of nearly $500 per day. The bill will enable the formation of a state-level premerger notification programme and increased scrutiny of potentially anti-competitive behaviour.

Lazarus Hackers Exploiting IIS Servers to Deploy ASP-based Web Shells
The Lazarus group has launched sophisticated attacks on South Korean web servers, deploying ASP-based web shells as first-stage Command and Control (C2) servers. These attacks,