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Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach? Retailers started the century as the prime targets for cyber attackers looking for credit card data. Today, unfortunately, retailers are again coming back to the spotlight. Similar to many organizations, 36% of retail respondents cited human error as the leading threat.

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Volvo retailer leaks sensitive files

Security Affairs

The Brazilian retail arm of car manufacturing giant Volvo leaked sensitive files, putting its clientele in the vast South American country in peril. Volvo’s retailer in Brazil, Dimas Volvo, leaked sensitive files through its website. website, belonging to an independent Volvo retailer in the Santa Catarina region of Brazil.

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Fortinet warns of a spike in attacks against TBK DVR devices

Security Affairs

FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a worrisome level of attacks attempting to exploit an authentication bypass vulnerability in TBK DVR devices. Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices.

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US citizens lost more than $68M to SIM swap attacks in 2021, FBI warns

Security Affairs

Use strong multi-factor authentication methods such as biometrics, physical security tokens, or standalone authentication applications to access online accounts. The FBI recommends mobile carriers take the following precautions: Educate employees and conduct training sessions on SIM swapping. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Akira ransomware attack on Tietoevry disrupted the services of many Swedish organizations

Security Affairs

Impacted customers include Sweden’s largest cinema chain Filmstaden (the attack disrupted its online ticket system) and the discount retail chain Rusta. Tietoevry notified law enforcement and impacted customers. Like other ransomware gangs, the group has developed a Linux encryptor to target VMware ESXi servers.

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Spanish police dismantled SIM swapping gang who stole money from victims’ bank accounts

Security Affairs

Use strong multi-factor authentication methods such as biometrics, physical security tokens, or standalone authentication applications to access online accounts. The FBI recommends mobile carriers take the following precautions: Educate employees and conduct training sessions on SIM swapping. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

Promote cross- and up-selling Recommendation engines use consumer behavior data and AI algorithms to help discover data trends to be used in the development of more effective up-selling and cross-selling strategies, resulting in more useful add-on recommendations for customers during checkout for online retailers.