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AUGUST 30, 2023

CrowdStrike CEO Says Clients Spot 'Point Products Masquerading as Platform Stories' CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said point product companies "are quickly going the way of legacy antivirus" as rivals SentinelOne and BlackBerry reportedly hunt for buyers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2024

The Pokemon Company resets some users’ passwords in response to hacking attempts against some of its users. The Pokemon Company announced it had reset the passwords for some accounts after it had detected hacking attempts, Techcrunch first reported. The company was likely the target of credential stuffing attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

According to DigiCert’s 2024 State of Digital Trust Survey results, released today , companies proactively pursuing digital trust are seeing boosts in revenue, innovation and productivity. Trzupek In such an environment, companies have a terrific opportunity to set themselves apart as being trustworthy, Trzupek argues.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 26, 2022

Experts: Case Spotlights Critical, But Often Overlooked, Insider Threats, Risks A former IT consultant has been charged with allegedly hacking into a computer server of a healthcare company client that had months earlier denied him employment with the organization.

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JULY 22, 2021

Cybercriminals Reportedly Demanding $50 Million Payment From Oil Giant Saudi Aramco, one of the world's largest oil and natural gas firms, has confirmed that company data was leaked after one of its suppliers was breached. Cybercriminals are reportedly demanding a $50 million ransom to delete the stolen data.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

CISO Marco Túlio Moraes on the Difference Between Being Aware and Being Educated When security practitioners lose their initial enthusiam for hunting cyberthreats, their companies begin to fail at cybersecurity, says CISO Marco Túlio Moraes.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Because 'Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast,' as the Saying Goes Chief information security officers are challenged with building high-functioning cybersecurity teams amid an impossible labor and skills market.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 27, 2022

Gonz Gonzales, CISO of JG Summit Holdings, Discusses His PAM Journey How does a conglomerate implement PAM across multiple companies? Gonz Gonzales, the CISO at JG Summit Holdings, one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines, shares his journey of PAM implementation across companies.

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APRIL 18, 2024

UnitedHealth Group Makes Low Key Admission in Online FAQ UnitedHealthGroup said for the first time that hackers behind a February ransomware attack against Change Healthcare breached sensitive health information, an admission that triggers a regulatory countdown clock for public disclosures and individual notification.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 4, 2023

Attacker Loaded DarkCrystal and DWAgent Remote Access Trojans An employee of a Ukrainian utility company installed an unlicensed version of Microsoft Office from a torrent website resulting in two remote access Trojans infecting the company's systems.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Capcom Says Over 350,000 Customer, Business Records Possibly Compromised Japanese computer game company Capcom acknowledged this week that a November security incident was a Ragnar Locker ransomware attack that resulted in about 350,000 customer and company records potentially compromised, including sales and shareholder data.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Last week, someone posted something like 570 files, images and chat logs from a Chinese company called I-Soon. These aren’t details about the tools or techniques, more the inner workings of the company. I-Soon sells hacking and espionage services to Chinese national and local government. Lots of details in the news articles.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 2, 2021

Accenture Security: Attackers Focus on Those With Over $1 Billion in Revenue At least seven companies with annual revenue of over $1 billion have been hit so far this year by Hades ransomware, according to an Accenture Security report.

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IG Guru

MARCH 1, 2024

The post Meet the shady companies helping governments hack citizens’ phones via Fast Company first appeared on IG GURU. Check out the article here.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 11, 2022

Victim Confirms Attack; CEO Says Data, Funds Remain Safe Nigerian betting platform Bet9ja has suffered a ransomware attack perpetrated by the BlackCat ransomware group, the company confirmed on Sunday. The attack disrupted the platform's regular operations, but CEO Ayo Ojuroye maintains that "all accounts, data and funds" are "safe."

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MARCH 25, 2021

companies, Accenture's cyberthreat intelligence group reports. Accenture Describes Highly Targeted Campaign A previously unknown threat group is deploying Hades ransomware as part of an ongoing campaign that has already targeted three U.S.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

The Cybercrime Group Posted Job Advertisements on Russian Job Portals Threat group FIN7 has set up a website posing as a security company to recruit talent, according to fraud intelligence company Gemini Advisory.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Accellion and Mandiant Say Four Vulnerabilities Have Now Been Patched Software company Accellion has released preliminary findings around the security incident that stung customers using its 20-year-old File Transfer Appliance.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Data includes Names, Addresses, Email Addresses, Phone Numbers An Israeli marketing company left the authentication credentials for a database online, exposing more than 140 GB worth of names, email addresses and phone numbers. The exposure was found by a U.S.-based

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MARCH 17, 2023

SVB Financial Group Pursues Chapter 11 to Sell Assets Outside the Commercial Bank The former parent company of Silicon Valley Bank filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday in an effort to streamline the sale of its assets.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Since then reams of data stolen from the company have been posted online, with the attackers promising to publish more in the coming days. But the company says the malware did not jeopardize card data, and that the incident was limited to administrative areas of its business. This matter is immaterial to the company.”

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Descope to Help Developers Make Authentication Part of Application Build Process The founding team behind SOAR vendor Demisto has started a passwordless authentication and user management platform company that caters to the developer community.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Capital Reportedly Did Not Pay Ransom Israeli car financing company K.L.S. Capital Ltd. says that hackers recently stole customer information, ID photos, vehicle licenses, scans of checks and loan information from its servers.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Gunnebo Group is a Swedish multinational company that provides physical security to a variety of customers globally, including banks, government agencies, airports, casinos, jewelry stores, tax agencies and even nuclear power plants. The company has operations in 25 countries, more than 4,000 employees, and billions in revenue annually.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2024

million from the European variety retail and discount company Pepco through a phishing attack. ” reads the press release published by the company. ” reads the press release published by the company. Crooks stole €15.5 “The attack has resulted in a loss of approximately €15.5

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

A ransomware attack on a Swedish logistics company Skanlog severely impacted the country’s liquor supply. Due to the cyber attack’s impact on the logistics company, the media reported it may be difficult to get hold of alcoholic beverages this weekend. alcohol by volume.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Company Directed to Delete All Secretly Stolen Data The Federal Trade Commission has, for the first time ever, banned a company and its CEO from the surveillance business in the U.S.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Reddy's Laboratories Says Plants in Four Countries Affected Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, a multinational pharmaceutical company based in India that's testing a COVID-19 vaccine, says it isolated its data center services Thursday following what it calls a "detected cyberattack."

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 30, 2020

CIO Is Among a Dozen LabCorp Executives, Directors Named in Lawsuit A shareholder has filed a lawsuit against LabCorp and 12 of its executives and directors - including the medical testing company's CIO - over two data breaches, including the 2019 breach of one of its vendors, American Medical Collection Agency, which affected millions of patients. (..)

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 27, 2020

Some Are Not Giving Customers Option to Opt out of Data Sale, Legal Experts Say Many companies that should be offering customers the ability to "opt out" of the sale of their information under the California Consumer Privacy Act are failing to do so because of the law's ambiguities, some legal experts say. CCPA went into effect Jan.

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