Joseph Topping reports: Heywood Hospital and Athol Hospital said a network outage this week was caused by a cybersecurity incident. The hospitals said they took affected systems offline and engaged a third-party cybersecurity firm. The facilities—Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Massachusetts, and Athol Hospital in Athol, Massachusetts—remain open and caring for patients; earlier in the week…
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PoC Exploit Released for 7-Zip Vulnerabilities that Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code Remotely
A proof-of-concept exploit for two critical vulnerabilities in the popular file archiver 7-Zip, potentially allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely through malicious ZIP files.