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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

The financial services ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the past few years driven by a surge in the adoption of digital payments. Our data shows us that in the first quarter of 2020, there was a larger shift to digital payment forms in 10 weeks than we had seen in the preceding five years. Data security.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Ata Hakcil led the team of white hat hackers from WizCase in identifying a major data leak on online trading broker FBS’ websites. The data from FBS.com and FBS.eu comprised millions of confidential records including names, passwords, email addresses, passport numbers, national IDs, credit cards, financial transactions and more.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

. “AvosLocker is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors. ransomware and phishing scams).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare Organizations Need to Adapt Their Data Protection Policies to the New Threat Environment. For example, data sprawl has significantly increased due to all of the new patient data that has been created during the pandemic. Sensitive medical data is not protected. Tue, 11/17/2020 - 06:44. ransomware).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Like other ransomware gangs, Cuba used ‘double extortion’ techniques which means that it exfiltrates data from the target systems before encrypting them and demanding a ransom payment, threatening to publicly release it if payment is not made. entities and the ransom amounts demanded by Cuba actors.”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As data and IT infrastructure become more valuable by the day, cybersecurity risk management is increasingly important for enterprises with a steep cost for noncompliance or extensive, unaddressed vulnerabilities. Mapping Environment Data. Remember that reputational harm from a breach can do more damage than the breach itself.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The latter is the 2019 data security law known as the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act. EyeMed engaged a forensic investigator, which was unable to determine whether any exfiltration of personal data had occurred, due in part to a lack of log data. In total, information for approximately 2.1

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Malware is malicious software designed to harm devices or glean data to commit identity-related crimes. VPNs encrypt data , making it much harder to intercept when transmitted through a shared or suspect internet connection. SSLs ensure all data is encrypted. Phishing schemes don’t only travel by way of email.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

defense contractors and financial services firms worldwide. The attack hit a national data center in an unnamed country in Central Asia, according to Kaspersky, the hackers were preparing a watering hole attack. The hackers attempted to inject malicious JavaScript code into the government websites connected to the data center.

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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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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 2, 2020

In the context of this global crisis, cyber risk management involves balancing the productivity of a workforce with ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of the company’s own systems and data, as well as that of their supply chain. Employees should be on alert for increased phishing attempts related to the current situation.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 15, 2022

On July 29, 2022, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) posted proposed amendments (“Proposed Amendments”) to its Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies (“Cybersecurity Regulations”).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. LogicManager. Back to top. Back to top. Regulation management.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The cybercrime group claims to have stolen 1 TB of data from the hospital and threatens to leak it. The message published by the gang on its leak site emphasizes that they didn’t encrypt data to avoid causing malfunctions to the hospital’s medical equipment. Come on guys, seriously?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. LogicManager. Back to top. Back to top. Regulation management.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This dupes a Windows machine that has not been patched against the vulnerability into allowing illegitimate data packets into the legitimate network. These data packets can contain malware such as a trojan, ransomware, or similar dangerous program.

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Department of Health Services email hacked exposing patient data (14,591). Pennsylvania-based software firm and healthcare provider accuse each other of data theft (unknown). TX-based Wise Health reports data breach caused by phishing attack (35,899). Data breaches. Los Angeles Co. Henry Co., Ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

An MFA security solution may also incorporate additional factors, such as geolocation data or a time component. Many services now send alerts or require additional authentication when you log into their service from a new device. Something you have. Something you are. VPN Authentication.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

A high-profile cyber incident may cause substantial financial and reputational losses to an organization, including the disruption of corporate business processes, destruction or theft of critical data assets, loss of goodwill, and shareholder and consumer litigation. Encrypting critical data assets.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. In most cases, this regards the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, and in the UK that law continues as the UK GDPR. So today, we'll go for the low hanging fruit.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

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. Data scraping or web scraping is a typically automated process that extracts information from websites, allowing criminals to compile datasets containing personal information.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Maintaining the integrity of networks and data is a critical consideration for every organization. Since then, the McAfee MVISION Cloud solution offers agentless data loss prevention (DLP) to large enterprises. Since 2003, Splunk’s machine data analysis capabilities have made the firm an industry staple.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

They're the long game operations where something as small as a single phishing email could escalate into millions of IDs being exfiltrated. Vamosi: Let's look at one scenario, The carpet X scenario begins with a legitimate user executing a malicious payload delivered via spear phishing ATT&CKs targeting financial service institutions.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

They're the long game operations where something as small as a single phishing email could escalate into millions of IDs being exfiltrated. Vamosi: Let's look at one scenario, The carpet X scenario begins with a legitimate user executing a malicious payload delivered via spear phishing ATT&CKs targeting financial service institutions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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