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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. 5,255,944,117 known records breached in 128 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories.

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QakBot Big Game Hunting continues: the operators drop ProLock ransomware for Egregor

Security Affairs

The analysis of attacks where Egregor has been deployed revealed that the TTPs used by the threat actors are almost identical to the ones used by the ProLock operators, whose campaigns have been described in Group-IB blog post in May. Egregor’s favorite sectors are Manufacturing (28.9% ProLock = Egregor. of victims) and Retail (14.5%).

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 8 – 14 January 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 42 GB Auto-Motion Shade Inc. Drug Mart Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 36,749 Elliott Group Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 31.5

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OCR Provides Insight into Enforcement Priorities and Breach Trends

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Regulators, industry experts, and researchers provided insight into health privacy and security enforcement trends, emerging threats, and new tools at a recent conference focused on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) regulatory framework. OCR chooses cases based on perceived importance and message.

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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

Earlier this month I spoke at a cybersecurity conference in Albany, N.Y. TS: Yes, you can put something into everything, but all of a sudden you have this massive big data collection problem on the back end where you as the attacker have created a different kind of analysis problem. National Security Agency.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Tales From A Ransomware Negotiator

ForAllSecure

” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. We know that you know, manufacturing is an area that we've seen a lot of targets over the last quarter. Again, because if you bring down manufacturing operations, there's a high impact to the business and necessity to recover quickly.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Yeah, there are tracks at conferences, but it hasn't yet exploded into the mainstream. And I remember asking questions, who were the manufacturers? There's been a few different ones that have been on eBay for different manufacturers and I bought a few of them. Vamosi: It is true that embedded security has been underground.