Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The threat actors also claim to have stolen over 27 TB of corporate data and encrypted the company’s VMWare ESXi virtual machines during the attack.” Immediately after detecting the intrusion, the company launched an investigation with the help of leading third-party cybersecurity experts and is also coordinating with its insurers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2019

Recent campaigns show t hreat actors behind the Dridex and Locky malware families , the TA505 group, have updated tactics and expanded its target list. Trend Micro revealed that the TA505 group that is behind the Dridex and Locky malware families continue to make small changes to its operations. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2020

The hackers claim to have compromised the Banco BCR’s network in August 2019, and had the opportunity to exfiltrate its information before encrypting the files. Maze Ransomware ransomware operators recently disclose other attacks against different organizations, including IT services giant Cognizant , and cyber insurer Chubb.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

A criminal group called Maze has claimed responsibility.” The attack took place on March 14th, 2020, when the Maze Ransomware operators exfiltrated data from the HMR’s network and then encrypt their systems. . “On Saturday 14 March 2020, HMR was subjected to a targeted and sophisticated attack by cyber criminals.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mexico confirms hack of military records (unknown) Randolph-area school district disables its own website following transphobic hack (unknown) Australia’s Telstra hit by data breach, two weeks after attack on Optus (unknown) Patient details compromised in cyber attack on health provider Pinnacle (unknown) CHI Health faces ‘IT security incident’ impacting (..)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

The crew has published images of the data they claim to have stolen before encrypting the systems at the company. REvil/Sodinokibi Ransomware group just posted a threatening message to Seachange, a global, public supplier of video delivery software. – Seachange has over 50,000,000 subscribers.

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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

JUNE 17, 2020

MaxLinear restored some of the systems using its backups, despite Maze Ransomware threatened to leak over 1TB of data allegedly stolen before encrypting the infected systems. According to documents filed with the U.S. “We carry cybersecurity insurance, subject to applicable deductibles and policy limits.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2020

The database seems to belong to members of the Student Advocates Group, which an FTC press release named as a student loan debt relief scheme that “bilked millions out of consumers by charging illegal upfront fees and falsely promising to lower or even eliminate consumers’ loan payments or balances.”. The documents. Call recordings.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

a property management company in Kentucky Incident details: The ransomware group Hunters International has added Homeland, Inc. According to databreaches.net , the group exfiltrated tenant information, service management information, financial data, business data, property data, employee data and sensitive business information.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

At the time of the attack, the ransomware operators published images of the data they claim to have stolen before encrypting the systems at the company. Sodinokibi/REVil ransomware operators posted images of SeaChange’s data on the leak site, they have created a page to the company containing images of allegedly stolen documents.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

On 24 October 2022, the ICO issued a penalty notice (MPN) to Interserve Group Limited (Interserve), imposing a fine of £4.4m A phishing email was sent to a group employee which was designed to appear as though the attached document needed urgent action. The databases were encrypted and rendered unavailable to Interserve.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In a month that saw the former US president accused of misappropriating classified government documents, there were also a spate of malicious insiders compromising their employer’s systems. August 2022 has been a lesson in being careful with whom you provide sensitive information. d/b/a Watson Electrical announces ransomware attack (unknown).

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2023

Shields Health Care Group The largest data breach of April 2023 was at the Shields Health Care Group, a Massachusetts-based medical services provider. Additionally, billing information, insurance numbers and other financial details were stolen in the attack. Biggest data breaches of April 2023 1. million people.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

announces security breach (10,000) CompSource Mutual Insurance Company reports security incident (unknown) Paul Smith’s College announces cyber attack (unknown) Cardiovascular Associates files notice of security breach (unknown) Rockler Companies says cyber attackers breached its systems (8,604) Emtec, Inc.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. These keys are available to the attacker, and the encryption can only be decrypted using a private key. How Does Ransomware Work?

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IT Governance

JANUARY 7, 2020

The symbol simply signifies that the site has an SSL certificate, which means the information shared between your computer and the website is encrypted. Those who did soon realised they’d been phished, with the document infecting their device with malware. Green padlock = good and secure, right?

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Data Matters

MAY 9, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Spring 2019 National Meeting (Spring Meeting) in Orlando, Florida, from April 6 to 9, 2019. ceding insurer could be eligible for the same reduced collateral requirements that would apply to qualifying EU reinsurers under the revised CFR Model Laws.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Outsiders can include lone hackers and cybercriminals who can belong to a criminal group or a nation-state-sponsored organization. Create an incident response plan , a written document that details how you will respond before, during and after a suspected or confirmed security threat. Establish a cybersecurity policy.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

18, 2021, when an employee on a Windows computer opened a booby-trapped Microsoft Excel document in a phishing email that had been sent two days earlier. ” Conti initially demanded USD $20 million worth of virtual currency in exchange for a digital key to unlock HSE servers compromised by the group.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

What is strong encryption today may be easily hacked in a year’s time – and encryption upgrades (just one element of good security) don’t come cheap. GDPR also makes it easier for group litigation. Group litigation risk is real with the recent Morrisons decision in the UK a notable recent example.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The penalty, which was by far the biggest GDPR fine in the eight months that the Regulation had been in effect, related to two violations: Google had failed to adequately explain to its users why it was collecting their data, and it didn’t document a legal basis for doing so.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Professional services USA Yes 56,457 Highlands Oncology Group Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 55,297 Charm Sciences, Inc. Drug Mart Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 36,749 Elliott Group Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 31.5

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Information Governance Perspectives

JULY 23, 2020

My wife, who happens to be an insurance defense attorney, well, we were closely following some of the court challenges, specifically in Wisconsin as they relate to public health measures in response to COVID. Earlier in the month Zoom had to agree to give end-to-end encryption to every user, not just paid subscribers.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

These controls include: Active Directory (AD): Manages users, groups, and passwords as a fundamental access control for an organization and the basis for most other security tools. Virtual private networks (VPNs): Secure remote user or branch office access to network resources through encrypted connections to firewalls or server applications.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle. But now we've gone from having two separate encrypted chips, the digital signal transponder and the ignition immobilizer to just one. And for the most part, this is true. A valet key often provided by the dealer, as a third key lacks an immobilizer chip.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Encrypting critical data assets. Board-management discussions about cyber risk should include identification of which risks to avoid, which to accept, and which to mitigate or transfer through insurance, as well as specific plans associated with each approach. Encrypting Critical Data Assets. Using appropriate access controls.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Related to that is the question of the restriction on data subjects’ rights in relation to processing data contained in documents relating to criminal investigations. Is the consequent cross-referencing to an absent document the best that can be done? You could call it Macavity the cat. Traces exist without the GDPR being visible.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2023

I am very surprised that the cyber insurance industry has not required zero trust architecture already, but perhaps the $1.4 We’ll go over them briefly here but the details can be found on page 16 of the document. The document can be found here. The NIST guidance can be found here. NIST has 7 tenets of zero trust.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Cyber insurance will become more popular and more comprehensive. It’s led to a growing trend for organisations to purchase cyber insurance, which Forbes contributor Emil Sayegh believes will continue in 2022. This market squeeze will certainly affect the cyber insurance industry itself. “We

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Notable cybersecurity exits for the company include BeyondTrust, Duck Creek Technologies, New Relic, and Tenable; and Insight’s other successful investments include Alibaba Group, BMC, Cvent, DocuSign, SolarWinds, Tumblr, and Twitter. Paladin Capital Group. Also read : Top Cyber Insurance Companies. Insight Investments.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The operation led to the arrest of two members of the ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine and the seizure of hundreds of crypto wallets used by the group. The authorities also seized the dark web Tor leak site used by the group. lockbit3g3ohd3katajf6zaehxz4h4cnhmz5t735zpltywhwpc6oy3id[.]onion

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