Krebs on Security

JANUARY 26, 2024

Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week levied financial sanctions against a Russian man accused of stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. Here’s a closer look at the activities of Mr. It’s not hard to see why.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks. Ransomware. Ransomware. Cyber attacks. Data breaches. Financial information. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

A month later, a ransomware attack shut down the company’s operations in Italy and China. However, cyber security researcher Andrea Draghetti discovered that the information was exfiltrated on 16 Match 2021, and concluded that the data might likely came from a separate, previously undisclosed data breach.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This part also discusses managing CS risks such as ransomware, privacy, change management, and user adoption. A sinister variation of the SaaS model is Ransomware as a Service (RaaS), in which criminals on the dark web rent the service in order to launch attacks on targets. RaaS is a new business model for ransomware developers.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breaches. Conti is by far the most aggressive and profitable ransomware group in operation today. Part II explored what it’s like to be an employee of Conti’s sprawling organization.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — HIPAA — has undergone some massive changes in the past few years to minimize the burden of healthcare entities. Cyberattacks against healthcare entities rose 45 percent between November 2020 and January 2021, according to Check Point. Carrot vs. stick.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

In another case, a doctor input his patient's name and their medical condition and asked ChatGPT to craft a letter to the patient's insurance company. The report, Ransomware 2023, put out jointly by cybersecurity vendors Securin, CybersecurityWorks, Ivanti, and Cyware, highlights the use of vulnerabilities within ransomware attacks.

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