Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. The company has operations in 25 countries, more than 4,000 employees, and billions in revenue annually. Acting on a tip from Milwaukee, Wis.-based

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

London, July 13, 2023 — Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, today published its latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023. For the insurance industry, working with clients to help them tackle these challenges is vital to ensuring businesses operate in as safe an environment as possible.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The security breach exposed the sensitive personal information of 2,192,515 people. Exposed information varied by individual and may include some combination of certain individuals’ names, social Security number, health insurance information, date of birth, and medical information. million individuals. It is a $6.6

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

This group primarily focused its attacks on the construction, manufacturing/industrial, and retail industries. The data shows a shift in ransomware targets over the past three years. Previously dominated by the construction industry, the IT sector now claims the top spot in 2023.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Incident details: Network security incident, where allegedly AlphV gained unauthorised access and made demands to the hospital’s leadership, suggesting a ransomware attack. D-Link Corporation Provides Details about an Information Disclosure Security Incident Date of breach: 2 October 2023. Records breached: Around 700 records.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 20, 2019

We talk to Bruce McDonnell of the East West Institute about how insurers are responding. Related Stories Episode 155: Disinformation is a Cyber Weapon and APTs warm to Mobile Malware Podcast Episode 117: Insurance Industry Confronts Silent Cyber Risk, Converged Threats NotPetya Horror Story Highlights Need for Holistic Security.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Researchers from the cybersecurity firm Menlo Security reported that threat actors exploited an open redirection vulnerability in the job search platform Indeed in phishing attacks. ” states the report from Menlo Security. The campaign was observed between July and August, threat actors used the phishing kit ‘ EvilProxy.’

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The government says Russian national Artur Sungatov used LockBit ransomware against victims in manufacturing, logistics, insurance and other companies throughout the United States. This prompted several XSS members to start posting memes taunting the group about the security failure. Ivan Gennadievich Kondratyev , a.k.a.

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 75,101 Airsoftc3.com Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 75,101 Airsoftc3.com Source (New) IT services USA Yes 1,382 Worthen Industries Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Manufacturing USA Yes 1,277 R.J. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes Unknown Human Events.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

Other top 4 targeted industries include Manufacturing, Insurance, Technology, and Financial Services seeing 15%, 9%, 7%, and 6% of the campaign traffic respectively.” “Email lures came in the form of updating account security surrounding 2FA, MFA, and general account security. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Belden, the manufacturer of networking and cable products, disclosed a data breach, threat actors have stolen employee and business information. The company said the breach did not impact operations at manufacturing plants, quality control or shipping, it added that attackers only had access to a “limited number” of company servers.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 5, 2024

IT Governance’s research found the following for December 2023: 1,351 publicly disclosed security incidents. Another noteworthy incident, a JavaScript web injection malware campaign affecting more than 40 organisations at once,* was uncovered by security researchers. billion records unprotected, as discovered by a security researcher.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

It manufactures products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles, and builds new locomotives up to 6,000 horsepower. The unusual activity was detected by the company on June 26th, then the rail giant launched an investigation into the security incident. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Wabtec).

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2023

Suzuki or otherwise, buying a new vehicle is an intense experience with complicated credit, insurance, documentation, and contracts. Files that should be secure and kept private were left publicly accessible. Rarely do car manufacturers sell their cars directly. We’ve grown to trust our local car sellers.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 26, 2019

Pick any company in any vertical – financial services, government, defense, manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, retailing, travel and hospitality – and you’ll find employees, partners, third-party suppliers and customers all demanding remote access to an expanding menu of apps — using their smartphones and laptops.

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CGI

MAY 27, 2016

Time and tide waits for no man – IoT in Insurance. This old saying could also be applied for what is happening in the insurance market with IoT and that given the drive behind IoT in both the consumer and business markets. For example, car insurance could be varied between theft and fully comprehensive when the Car is not being used.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 14, 2014

On October 8, 2014, the Department of Homeland Security reported that over the course of several months, the network of a large critical manufacturing company was compromised. The incident raises some issues for cyber insurance.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. We’ll be back next week with the biggest and most interesting news stories, all rounded up in one place for you. In the meantime, if you missed it, check out last week’s round-up.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Hunton & Williams Insurance Litigation & Counseling partner Lon Berk reports: The recently publicized Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) bug affecting Apple Inc. products raises a question regarding insurance coverage that is likely to become increasingly relevant as “The Internet of Things” expands.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

Xchanging is a business process and technology services provider and integrator, which provides technology-enabled business services to the commercial insurance industry. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company disclosed the security breach on July 5, but it is not clear when it has discovered the attack.

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Information Governance Perspectives

APRIL 5, 2023

John Danenberger, CPCU, is Corporate Counsel at State Farm Insurance and specializes in addressing emerging issues around telematics. In 2015, he successfully transitioned from a military career as a trial attorney for the JAG Corps to working in telematics in corporate America for State Farm Insurance.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Related: HBO hack spurs cyber insurance market. And over the years they’ve also financed security breakthroughs – at the source-code level. These security breakthroughs have not received much mainstream attention. But Hollywood has shelled out multi millions to support the advance of source-code security.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 27, 2023

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems only have detections for 24 percent of the 196 techniques in MITRE ATT&CK v13, according to a new report. “This implies that adversaries can execute around 150 different techniques that will be undetected by the SIEM,” says the CardinalOps report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The malicious installer was used to infect organizations in multiple sectors, including the industrial, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, insurance and telecommunications sectors in North America and Europe. The post Trojanized Comm100 Live Chat app installer distributed a JavaScript backdoor appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City confirmed the security incident and is working to recover from the ransomware attack that impacted its services, including the police department. million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack appeared first on Security Affairs. million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The post Episode 204: Josh Corman of CISA on securing the Vaccine Supply Chain appeared first. But in the vital healthcare sector, nation state actors are just one among many threats to the safety and security of networks, data, employees and patients. Read the whole entry. » residents that it can mine for intelligence.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A joint research by Elliptic and Corvus Insurance revealed that the group accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022. ” Most of the victims are in the manufacturing, engineering and construction, and retail sectors. The average ransom payment was $1.2 61,9% of the victims are in the US, 15.8%

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 9, 2024

Healthcare organizations need a strong data governance framework to help ensure compliance with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) in the US and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU. Inaccuracies might also lead to more delays or complications with insurance coverage.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In a security notice filed with Montana’s Attorney General office, Pepsi explained that the breach started on 23 December 2022. Pepsi said that it “took prompt action to contain the incident and secure [its] systems”. What went wrong?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang has been active since November 2021, the list of its victims is long and includes industrial explosives manufacturer SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA , the US defense contractor NJVC , gas pipeline Creos Luxembourg S.A. , the fashion giant Moncler , the Swissport , NCR , and Western Digital.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

Compromised organizations operate in different business verticals, including manufacturing, wealth management, insurance providers, and pharmaceuticals. The researchers noticed that the path contains the same mutex name as the Babuk ransomware, a circumstance that suggests the malware borrows Babuk’s leaked source code.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Optum Solutions is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, a leading health insurance company in the United States. “On February 21, 2024, UnitedHealth Group (the “Company”) identified a suspected nation-state associated cyber security threat actor had gained access to some of the Change Healthcare information technology systems. .

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IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2021

Don’t be fooled by the fact that we only recorded 20,995,371 breached records in March; it was one of the leakiest months we’ve ever seen, with 151 recorded incidents. By comparison, there was a seemingly Lilliputian 82 recorded breaches in January and 118 in February.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In 2022, the ICICI Bank’s resources were named a “critical information infrastructure” by the Indian government – any harm to it can impact national security. However, despite the critical status of bank infrastructure on the national level, the security of crucial data was not ensured.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

The initiatives that stand out the most — critical infrastructure security standards, a national data privacy and security law, and liability for security failures — will likely take time and the support of Congress to implement. is the creation of mandatory requirements for critical infrastructure security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 20, 2024

With more dependency on technology and third and fourth parties, expectations are increasing for organizations to continue delivering critical business services through a major disruption in a safe and secure manner. This means actively minimizing downtime and closing gaps in the supply chain to remain competitive.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

But with a proactive approach to data security, organizations can fight back against the seemingly endless waves of threats. IBM Security X-Force found the most common threat on organizations is extortion, which comprised more than a quarter (27%) of all cybersecurity threats in 2022. Where do data breaches originate?

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