eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. By using the services, cybercriminals can gain access to victims’ accounts to steal money.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Some 11,800 computer software companies, 10,000 IT services vendors, 5,500 health care organizations and 3,200 financial services firms continue to maintain on-premises Exchange email servers, according to this report from Enlyft. Best practices a must. At the moment, ransomware attacks are front and center.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. Likewise, lookalike and spoofed web domains and well-crafted phishing emails now easily trick employees into thinking they’re dealing with trustworthy sources.

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Rocket Software

AUGUST 17, 2020

Financial services organizations typically experience the most data breaches and hacks, which makes security a priority. Benefits for Financial Services. Since the pandemic began in March, data hacks, including simple phishing attacks, have been on the rise. But what about healthcare?

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The first phishing campaigns have already been sent and more will be coming that try to trick you into clicking on a variety of links about blood drives, charitable donations, or "exclusive" videos. Blog post with links: [link] Are Your Users Making Risky Security Mistakes? It's a good idea to send one to your users this week.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bad actors are increasingly using a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver ransomware and other malicious code in email campaigns aimed at financial services firms and other organizations, according to Microsoft researchers. Everyone is scrambling to update their tools to identify and eliminate the threats.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 26, 2021

In this blog, we look at the key issues that you will face. For example, financial services firms may be worried about employees breaching insider trading laws. For example, there are several phishing campaigns in which scammers replicate automated notifications of file shares to capture people’s login credentials.

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Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

The post Developments in Health Privacy and Cybersecurity Policy and Regulation: OCR Issues Cybersecurity Warnings and New Health Data Legislation Is Introduced appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog. implement stronger authentication solutions, such as multi-factor authentication. 45 CFR 164.308(a)(5)(i).

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Ascent Innovations

MAY 17, 2018

Email phishing remains the top malware delivery mechanism. They look to steal credit card numbers from financial services & insurance companies or install malware on the critical systems used by healthcare companies. Healthcare IoT. The healthcare IoT is problematic due to the increase in networked medical devices.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Group-IB uncovered a new sophisticated phishing campaign, tracked as PerSwaysion, against high-level executives of more than 150 companies worldwide. . ybercriminals behind the PerSwaysion campaign gained access to many confidential corporate MS Office365 emails of mainly financial service companies, law firms, and real estate groups.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Ransomware attacks use malware, often injected through phishing schemes, to encrypt a victim’s data files or programs, followed by a ransom demand by the threat actor that offers the decryption key in exchange for payment. Payment is often demanded in bitcoin, and thus third-party services are often used to make such payments.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

phishing) and systems (e.g., The post FCA Publishes Wholesale Banks and Asset Management Cyber Multi-Firm Review Findings appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog. For one, many had defined the threat landscape too narrowly. Testing – the FCA observed wide variations in the difference in approaches to firms’ cybersecurity testing.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2021

And yet, for all of its sophistication, Nobelium also engages in routine phishing campaigns to get a foothold in targeted organizations. This of course is how they get a toehold to go deeper. In this case, the attackers leveraged information gleaned from a Microsoft worker’s computing device.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Financial services AI-powered FinOps (Finance + DevOps) helps financial institutions operationalize data-driven cloud spend decisions to safely balance cost and performance in order to minimize alert fatigue and wasted budget. Gear up robotics AI is not just about asking for a haiku written by a cat.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

Blog post with links: [link] [New PhishER Feature] Immediately Add User-Reported Email Threats to Your M365 Blocklist Now there's a super easy way to keep malicious emails away from all your users through the power of the KnowBe4 PhishER platform! Or will they report the suspected phish and play an active role in your human defense layer?

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

TX-based Wise Health reports data breach caused by phishing attack (35,899). Hackers publish list of Discord credentials they accessed in phishing scam (2,500). Hackers breach SyTech, a contractor for Russia’s national intelligence service (unknown). Lancaster University students caught out in phishing attack (unknown).

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #22 | May 31st, 2023 [Eye on Fraud] A Closer Look at the Massive 72% Spike in Financial Phishing Attacks With attackers knowing financial fraud-based phishing attacks are best suited for the one industry where the money is, this massive spike in attacks should both surprise you and not surprise you at all.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

US OCR imposes HIPAA penalty in phishing attack case The US Office for Civil Rights has imposed its first financial penalty under HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) for violations of the Act’s security rule relating to phishing. In the meantime, if you missed it, check out last week’s round-up.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2021

Agency for International Development (USAID) to launch phishing campaigns against a broad array of targets. Now the group is back with the USAID phishing campaign. “Attackers know this and are creating phishing campaigns to take advantage of the mobile interface that makes it hard to spot a malicious message.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

In particular, in a blog article entitled, The NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the FTC , dated August 31, 2016, the FTC provided guidance suggesting that the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is consistent with the agency’s approach followed since the late 1990s in over 60 law enforcement actions and in business education guidance.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Subscribe now The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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