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Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware

Krebs on Security

Criminal hackers will try almost anything to get inside a profitable enterprise and secure a million-dollar payday from a ransomware infection. Image: Abnormal Security. Image: Abnormal Security. “Please don’t harm Sociogram’s reputation,” Medayedupin pleaded. billion in 2020. Image: FBI.

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GUEST ESSAY: Addressing data leaks and other privacy, security exposures attendant to M&As

The Last Watchdog

Such consolidation across markets is good news for customers and vendors alike in terms of market growth and maximizing security investments. The FBI recently issued a warning that ransomware gangs are targeting companies during “time-sensitive financial events”, such as mergers and acquisitions. Lack of documented evidence.

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BlackCat Ransomware affiliates target unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers

Security Affairs

The BlackCat ransomware gang is targeting unpatched Exchange servers to compromise target networks, Microsoft warns. Microsoft researchers have observed BlackCat ransomware gang targeting unpatched Exchange servers to compromise organizations worldwide.

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Capita Admits That Its ‘Cyber Incident’ Was Ransomware and That Customer Data Was Breached

IT Governance

After weeks of insisting that criminal hackers had merely disrupted internal systems, the outsourcing giant has confirmed this week that the damage was more than just an ‘incident’. It was, in fact, ransomware. The fallout from Capita’s so-called “cyber incident” last month has been slow and damning.

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Arrest in ‘Ransom Your Employer’ Email Scheme

Krebs on Security

In August, KrebsOnSecurity warned that scammers were contacting people and asking them to unleash ransomware inside their employer’s network, in exchange for a percentage of any ransom amount paid by the victim company. Image: Abnormal Security. On the contrary: This activity pumps a great deal of Western money into Nigeria.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks – May 2023

IT Governance

IT Governance found 98 publicly disclosed security incidents in May 2023, accounting for 98,226,877 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. million) Apria Healthcare suffers security breach (1.8

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in August 2022 – 97 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

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. In total, we identified 112 publicly disclosed security incidents in August, resulting in 97,456,345 compromised records. Ransomware.