Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

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. Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Cyber insurance will become more popular and more comprehensive. It’s led to a growing trend for organisations to purchase cyber insurance, which Forbes contributor Emil Sayegh believes will continue in 2022. This market squeeze will certainly affect the cyber insurance industry itself. “We

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Data Matters

MAY 9, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Spring 2019 National Meeting (Spring Meeting) in Orlando, Florida, from April 6 to 9, 2019. ceding insurer could be eligible for the same reduced collateral requirements that would apply to qualifying EU reinsurers under the revised CFR Model Laws.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a malware analysis report (MAR) that includes technical details about web shells employed by Iranian hackers. A web shell is a code, often written in typical web development programming languages (e.g.,

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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. According to BleepingComputer , the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group took responsibility for an attack on McLaren’s network on 4 October.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

” Cyber Insurance No Longer Reliable. Perhaps the largest lesson to draw from this case, Crockett said, is to take these threats more seriously and look beyond a simple cost-benefit analysis. ” Crockett said unofficial numbers indicate that only about 10 percent of such cyber insurance claims are paid out.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

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 1 ; source 2 (Update) Professional services USA Yes 56,457 Highlands Oncology Group Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 55,297 Charm Sciences, Inc.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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. a property management company in Kentucky Incident details: The ransomware group Hunters International has added Homeland, Inc. to its leak site.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” Forensic Analysis.

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IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

For instance, it could monitor users’ keystrokes or encrypt the user’s files in a ransomware attack. But the cyber security research group Securonix has unearthed a new campaign from a threat group dubbed Tactical#Octopus. YouTube has said its team are investigating the phishing campaign. “We’re

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 25, 2017

Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) entered into a resolution agreement with MAPFRE Life Insurance Company of Puerto Rico (“MAPFRE”) relating to a breach of protected health information (“PHI”) contained on a portable storage device. On January 18, 2017, the U.S.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

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) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. These keys are available to the attacker, and the encryption can only be decrypted using a private key. How Does Ransomware Work?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

And this often happens when the hacker, the so-called threat actor, starts encrypting the computer systems. Encrypting computer systems can bring business operations to a standstill, partially because attacks usually occur when the company is least ready to respond e.g., at Christmas, during the summer, and on weekends.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

XDR is often considered an evolution of EDR, moving beyond endpoint data analysis and threat response to look at telemetry data across clouds, applications, servers, third-party resources, and other network components. Unlike EDR, NDR focuses less on actual devices and more on network traffic behavior analysis via packet data.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

31, 2021, the HSE’s antivirus software detected the execution of two software tools commonly used by ransomware groups — Cobalt Strike and Mimikatz — on the Patient Zero Workstation. Department of Homeland Security had obtained chatter from a top ransomware group which warned of an “imminent cybercrime threat to U.S.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

VAMOSI: Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 28, 2022, members of the Conti ransomware group began leaking information about the internal operations. ” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. Conti, with ties to Russia, came out in support of Russia.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Encrypting critical data assets. Board-management discussions about cyber risk should include identification of which risks to avoid, which to accept, and which to mitigate or transfer through insurance, as well as specific plans associated with each approach. Encrypting Critical Data Assets. Using appropriate access controls.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs): Improve the general security of a firewall with advanced packet analysis capabilities to block malware and known-malicious sites. Virtual private networks (VPNs): Secure remote user or branch office access to network resources through encrypted connections to firewalls or server applications.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In another case, a device management tool was deployed in a hospital and used the WiFi network to insure data privacy, as it provisioned connected devices. But ExtraHop noticed that the tool also opening encrypted connections to vendor-owned cloud storage, a major HIPAA violation. Since then it has raised $61.6

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Concern about the increasing use of algorithms and automatic data processing needs to be addressed, perhaps requiring recording, testing and some level of disclosure about the use of algorithms and data analysis, particularly when algorithms might affect employment ​or are used in a public policy context.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

The latter group won't get anything useful from this post, but it was never meant for them. In this industry, there's everything from income-producing equipment to conferences to charitable donations to an organisation like Let's Encrypt that can reduce your tax bill (obviously get expert advice on this if you're not sure).

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

super talented group of people. They're basically entirely encrypted. Like insurance apps, you know, where there might be some weird series of forms. And you know, I'm not an insurance guy. There are automated tools within static analysis solutions that flag these as they parse through the lines of code.

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