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Global Scamdemic: Scams Become Number One Online Crime

Security Affairs

Threat hunting and adversarial cyber intelligence company Group-IB published a comprehensive analysis of fraud cases on a global scale. Insurance companies around the world are now suffering from phishing. Over the past year, an average of over 100 phishing websites were created per insurer. million in one year .

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

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. The ‘enforcement’ and ‘other news’ categories remain unchanged. This should make it easier for you to quickly find the information you want. Breached records: about 9 million.

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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