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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2021 – 223.6 million records breached

IT Governance

With one month left in 2021, the annual total running total of compromised records is to just shy of 5 billion. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2021 – 223.6 In November, we discovered 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 223,615,390 breached records. Community Medical Centers, Inc.

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Over a billion records belonging to CVS Health exposed online

Security Affairs

This week WebsitePlanet along with the researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database, belonging to the US healthcare and pharmaceutical giant CVS Health, that was exposed online. The database was accessible to everyone without any type of authentication.

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Redefining clinical trials: Adopting AI for speed, volume and diversity

IBM Big Data Hub

Barriers to patient accessibility : Numerous challenges like geographical constraints, transportation issues, scarce trial site availability and physical disabilities restrict potential participants from accessing trials. Digital health technologies and software do more than just enhance accessibility and efficiency in clinical trials.

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China-linked APT Bronze Starlight deploys ransomware as a smokescreen

Security Affairs

However, the victimology, the short lifespan of each ransomware family employed in the attacks, and access to malware used by nation-state actors suggest that the main motivation of the group may be intellectual property theft or cyberespionage. The victims include pharmaceutical companies in Brazil and the U.S.,

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Balikbayan Foxes group spoofs Philippine gov to spread RATs

Security Affairs

The group focuses on Shipping/Logistics, Manufacturing, Business Services, Pharmaceutical, and Energy entities, among others. The threat actors restarted their activity in September 2021, they used phishing messages masqueraded as the Philippines Bureau of Customs CPRS and contained links to a credential harvesting page. .

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The Cloud Trust Paradox: Keeping Control of Data & Encryption Keys in the Cloud

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Thu, 03/04/2021 - 09:38. Based on this notion of trust, Google Cloud developed the technology of External Key Manager (EKM), which helps organizations achieve a next level of control over how and when their encryption keys are used to protect and access the users’ encrypted data. Trust is a much-debated topic in cloud security.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 292

Security Affairs

A critical flaw in industrial automation systems opens to remote hack Crooks stole 800,000€ from ATMs in Italy with Black Box attack Operators behind Dark Caracal are still alive and operational Sopra Steria estimates financial Impact of ransomware attack could reach €50 Million Delaware County, Pennsylvania, opted to pay 500K ransom to DoppelPaymer (..)