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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in November 2022 – 32 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Welcome to our November 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 95 security incidents throughout the month, accounting for 32,051,144 breached records. The first was a data breach at Twitter, in the latest PR disaster for the social media giant. Ransomware. Data breaches.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2020 – 623 million records breached

IT Governance

Ordinance Survey discovers breach of employee data (1,000). South Carolina-based United Health notifies patients of 2019 data breach (36). Ashley Madison data breach victims still being hounded by sextortion scammers (unknown). Massive MGM data breach might be a smokescreen for more insidious attack (10.6

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Prometheus and Grief – two new emerging ransomware gangs targeting enterprises. Mexican Government data is published for sale.

Security Affairs

“Prometheus” and “Grief” – a multi-billion dollar ransomware market obtained two new emerging players. In today’s world, information and data means money and the people that are stealing the information have now reached new levels of sophistication. Thanos ransomware (a.k.a. Source: [link].

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Krebs on Security

Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. In this post we’ll look at the clues left behind by “ Babam ,” the handle chosen by a cybercriminal who has sold such access to ransomware groups on many occasions over the past few years. Image: Flashpoint.

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FBI: Compromised US academic credentials available on various cybercrime forums

Security Affairs

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. “The FBI is informing academic partners of identified US college and university credentials advertised for sale on online criminal marketplaces and publically accessible forums.

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Key takeaways from the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report

IT Governance

Verizon’s annual DBIR (Data Breach Investigations Report) is among the most valuable studies in the security industry, so the release of the 2019 edition this week is cause for celebration. Financially-motivated social engineering attacks are behind 12% of all breaches analysed. Other important statistics.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are also massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. Mr. Neculiti confirmed personally registering this domain.

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