Rhode Island’s health and social services system, RIBridge, suffered a cyberattack on December 5. Hackers have threatened to release the personal data of hundreds of thousands of Rhode Islanders unless a ransom is paid, potentially affecting anyone who has received or applied for state health coverage or benefits. The security threat was detected by IT vendor, Deloitte.

Mandiant warns of attacks on newly-disclosed Ivanti remote takeover threat
Google’s Mandiant team has issued an alert about a remote code execution flaw in the Ivanti Connect Secure VPN platform. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2025-22457, is