eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In a year where ransomware has raised the alert levels everywhere, the go-to answer from many is redundancy through offline, remote backups – but are they enough? As ransomware threats loom, we look at where backups fall short, and what to keep in mind to optimize network and data security. Where Backups Fall Short Against Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The city of Racine joins to the long string of US municipalities that were hit with ransomware attack, it was forced offline following the infection. The city of Racine, Wisconsin, was hit with a ransomware, the incident took place on January 31, 2020. ” reported the GovernmentTechnology website. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

JULY 11, 2019

That’s a question more organisations are having to ask themselves nowadays, with at least 55 ransomware attacks reported in the first half of 2019. Identify that the attack is ransomware. Don’t assume that the person who has spotted the attack knows that it’s ransomware. See also: How does ransomware infect your systems?

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

June 2019’s total of 39,713,046 breached records is the lowest since May last year – the month that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect. Ransomware. Pittsburgh-based Ellwood City Medical Center hit by ransomware (unknown). Edcouch, TX, government hit by ransomware attack (3,000).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

An Alabama hospital chain announced to have restored normal operation after paying the ransom request by crooks that infected its systems with ransomware. A hospital chain in west Alabama was recently hit by a ransomware attack that paralyzed its systems. ” reads the post published by the Associated Press. .

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 8, 2020

individuals and businesses comply with ransomware payment demands. Ransomware attacks use malware, often injected through phishing schemes, to encrypt a victim’s data files or programs, followed by a ransom demand by the threat actor that offers the decryption key in exchange for payment. sanctions law violations if U.S.

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IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

South Carolina-based United Health notifies patients of 2019 data breach (36). Puerto Rico government loses $2.6 Wake County, NC, learns that third party breached government employee info (1,900). The US Defence Information Systems Administration discloses 2019 cyber attack (unknown). Ransomware. Cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When MOVEit was hacked by the Russian Cl0p ransomware gang in May, email addresses and links to government employee surveys were compromised. Compromised information included patients’ names, dates of birth, postal addresses, Social Security numbers, diagnosis and treatment information, and health insurance information.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I count this month’s total of leaked records to be 692,853,046, bringing 2019’s total to 2,462,038,109. Cyber attack and ransomware. Crosby ISD’s IT system hacked by ransomware virus. Dr. DeLuca & Dr. Marciano Eye Associates notify almost 24,000 patients after ransomware attack. Data breach.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. IT Governance released its final Weekly Podcast.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

A few days ago, Riviera Beach City agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom, now a Lake City, another city in Florida, agreed to do the same after a ransomware attack. Lake City is a small city in Florida with a population of 65,000 that was hit by ransomware earlier on June 10. SecurityAffairs – Lake City, ransomware).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2019

The Riviera Beach City, Florida, agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to decrypt its data after a ransomware-based attack hit its computer system. The Riviera Beach City Council voted unanimously to pay $600,000 in ransom to decrypt its records after a ransomware attack hit its systems. “The payment is being covered by insurance.”

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

a property management company in Kentucky Incident details: The ransomware group Hunters International has added Homeland, Inc. Records breached: Unknown Hunters International claims responsibility for cyber attack on Homeland, Inc. Date of breach: 26 October 2023 Breached organisation: Homeland, Inc., to its leak site.

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KnowBe4

MAY 29, 2019

Ransomware continues to rack up victims. Early this month the City of Baltimore announced ransomware had seized a variety of city government computer systems. One of the most distressing facts about ransomware is that it can be deployed across numerous devices within an organization to maximize the impact.

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IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2021

We typically expect ambiguity when it comes to ransomware, because organisations are locked out of their files and can’t calculate what’s been affected. Ransomware. Ransomware. The issue is that in far more cases than we’d expect, the number of breached records wasn’t included in the notification, so we can’t include it here.

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Data Matters

JUNE 24, 2021

On June 15, 2021, the SEC announced settled charges against First American Title Insurance Company (First American) for disclosure controls and procedures violations related to a cybersecurity vulnerability that exposed sensitive customer information. This resolution highlights the SEC’s continued focus on cybersecurity.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

Earlier this month, Norsk Hydro published its first quarterly report since it fell victim to a devastating ransomware attack in March. On 19 March 2019, Norsk Hydro’s systems were infected with the LockerGoga ransomware. This means there’s a chance that the network was compromised before the attackers planted the ransomware.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

This enormous security gap leaves you open to business email compromise, session hijacking, ransomware and more. Per the Ecuadorian government, these attacks were fueled by attempts to intimidate the media. I've written quite a few times about specific cyber insurance claim cases that required going to court to settle.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers. Data breached: 41,500,000 records.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 21 February 2019. According to Edgescan’s 2019 Vulnerability Statistics Report , more than 81% of systems have at least one known vulnerability for which there is an available patch or workaround. million of this amount, the rest being covered by insurance.

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IT Governance

JULY 17, 2019

On 19 March 2019, the aluminium producer Norsk Hydro’s systems were infected with ransomware , but instead of acquiescing to the criminals’ demands, the organisation turned to its incident response procedure. See also: How to handle a ransomware attack. 7 of the most common cyber attacks you need to prepare for.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. billion in BEC scam-related losses the year before.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

Stunning as these two high-profile attacks were, they do not begin to convey the full scope of what a pervasive and destructive phenomenon ransomware has become – to individuals, to companies of all sizes and, lately, to poorly defended local agencies. Probing and plundering Ransomware is highly resilient and flexible.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. VCPI) was hit by the Ryuk ransomware strain.

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eDiscovery Daily

APRIL 7, 2019

Janik begins his article by referencing the DLA Piper NotPetya ransomware attack in 2017, as follows: “Imagine it’s a usual Tuesday morning, and coffee in hand you stroll into your office. Thanks to an article I came across last week, I now know that there was a recent ABA opinion on the topic. An article written by Anton Janik, Jr.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Local government agencies remain acutely exposed to being hacked. However, at this moment in history, two particularly worrisome types of cyber attacks are cycling up and hitting local government entities hard: ransomware sieges and election tampering. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. That’s long been true.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

IT Governance is dedicated to helping organisations tackle the threat of cyber crime and other information security weaknesses. A month later, a ransomware attack shut down the company’s operations in Italy and China. In August 2020, it was embroiled in a data breach affecting more than 800,000 EyeMed and Lenscrafters patients.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 26, 2024

Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week levied financial sanctions against a Russian man accused of stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. Here’s a closer look at the activities of Mr. Image: Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Kremlin breaks with all tradition and announces that — at the request of the United States — it has arrested 14 people suspected of working for REvil , one of the more ruthless and profitable Russian ransomware groups. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2020

The new year – and new decade – is underway, but before saying goodbye to 2019, we have one more monthly round-up to get to. Hackers break into government system used by the country’s schools (unknown). Chinese government-linked hacking group has been bypassing 2FA in a wave of attacks (unknown). Ransomware. Henry Co.,

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IT Governance

MARCH 28, 2019

There’s a new compiler at the helm of our monthly list of data breaches, following the departure of IT Governance stalwart Lewis Morgan, who leaves me with some mighty big shoes to fill. That brings the 2019 running total to 4.53 Ransomware. More than a million Israeli websites hit with ransomware (unknown).

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks. Ransomware. If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Stay Up to Date on SEC Alerts Related to Cybersecurity: For instance, in 2020 the Division of Examinations published three alerts related to cybersecurity (OCIE Cybersecurity and Resiliency Practices; Ransomware Alert; and Safeguarding Client Accounts against Credential Compromise). Question 2.03 (Updated August 21, 2019), [link].

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IT Governance

MAY 1, 2019

Still, April 2019 saw a not completely disastrous 1,334,488,724 breached records. Illinois dental insurer notifies members after phishing attack (unknown). Ransomware. Genesee County, MI, government suffers ‘aggressive’ ransomware attack (unknown). Ransomware attack hits Garfield County, UT (unknown).

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IT Governance

JANUARY 29, 2019

Although there will be some debate about the usefulness of including the 772,904,991 records from the Collection #1 breach – which comprises data stolen from a number of historic data breaches – even without them, the number of breached records still stands at just under 1 billion records for January 2019. Cyber attacks & ransomware.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2019

A DDoS gang is extorting business posing as Russian government hackers (unknown). Ransomware. Victoria government insists patient data is safe after ransomware attack (unknown). North Florida OB-GYN discloses ransomware incident (528,188). AL-based Sarrell Dental notifies patients of ransomware attack (391,472).

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

More than 135,000 residents have been affected by the incident, which is believed to have been caused by ransomware. What is ransomware? Ransomware is a specific type of malware that encrypts computer files, essentially locking the owner out of their systems. Cyber security solutions.

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