Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The State of Maine was the victim of the large-scale hacking campaign that targeted organizations using the MOVEit file transfer tool. The attackers also gained access to medical information and health insurance information of some individuals. million Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America 2.6 million Genworth 2.5

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Ransomware. Mobile attacks.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang adds 2.7 TB of ASA Electronics data to its leak site The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is attempting to extort a ransom from ASA Electronics for 2.7 Welfare Benefits Plan Source 1 ; source 2 New Healthcare USA Yes 13,079 Insurance ACE/Humana Inc. Date breached: 384,658,212 records.

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IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

Preschool services provider Educational Enrichment Systems discloses cyber attack (unknown). Pacific Specialty Insurance Company notifies plan members of 2019 data breach (unknown). Total Quality Logistics confirms cyber attack but says it wasn’t ransomware (unknown). Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

ViperSoftX uses more sophisticated encryption and anti-analysis techniques Atomic macOS Stealer is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month CISA warns of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT service in Italy after meeting Garante Privacy’s demands Cisco discloses a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment (..)

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KnowBe4

MAY 29, 2019

Ransomware continues to rack up victims. Early this month the City of Baltimore announced ransomware had seized a variety of city government computer systems. One of the most distressing facts about ransomware is that it can be deployed across numerous devices within an organization to maximize the impact. Show Me the Money.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 | March 28th, 2023 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks Users need to adapt to an evolving threat landscape in which attackers can use AI tools like ChatGPT to craft extremely convincing phishing emails, according to Matthew Tyson at CSO. "A Don't get caught in a phishing net!

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. Source New Defence USA Yes 1,051 Connecticut College Source New Education USA Yes 954 American Alarm & Communications Inc.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2020

Ransomware will continue to increase. Cyber insurance has in some regions encouraged victims to pay as it is cheaper than remediation in some cases. The complexity of ransomware is such that there have been decoders released by attackers that have bugs that prevent the decryption of the data. Open banking will be targeted.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 6, 2022

By taking away the tools and systems that have enabled fraudsters to cheat innocent people at scale, this operation shows how we are determined to target corrupt individuals intent on exploiting often vulnerable people.". Ransomware, Ransom-war and Ran-some-where: What We Can Learn When the Hackers Get Hacked. Save My Spot!

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

The Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Act may provide business owners with access to government-level tools to secure small business against attacks. Perhaps the best approach to rampant malware, ransomware and cybercrime is stronger cooperation between the public and private sectors. Until the 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. Ransomware is the most feared cybersecurity threat and with good reason: Its ability to cripple organizations by locking their data is a threat like no other.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Malware attacks via backdoors made up 21% of all incidents, and 17% were ransomware attacks. It means physically securing servers and user devices, managing and controlling access, application security and patching, maintaining thoroughly tested, usable data backups and educating employees. Where do data breaches originate?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Perimeter security tools include: Firewalls: Filter traffic and monitor access based upon firewall rules and policies for the network, network segment, or assets protected by different types of firewalls. Cloud Security Cloud security provides focused security tools and techniques to protect cloud resources.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Small to Medium Business are, today, the target of APTs and ransomware. Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. VAMOSI: Cybersecurity insurance.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 15, 2023

KMaaS supports various APIs and developer tools to enable DevOps to add encryption functionality to their applications without building and managing key management infrastructure. Underestimating the importance of training and education: Employees working with the KMaaS solution should be trained to use it effectively and securely.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Integration will also increase between security tools and IT systems to enable smarter orchestration; most important of all, organizations will harness AI to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated AI-driven attacks. The majority of ransomware attacks gained initial access by defeating legacy MFA.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

Say you’re an organization that’s been hit with ransomware. At what point do you need to bring in a ransomware negotiator? Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled. The same is true with ransomware.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

link] [Head Scratcher] More Companies With Cyber Insurance Are Hit by Ransomware Than Those Without? In an interesting twist, new data hints that organizations with cyber insurance may be relying on it too much, instead of shoring up security to ensure attacks never succeed.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

TB exfiltrated Comcast Cable Communications, LLC (Xfinity) Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Telecoms USA Yes 35,879,455 Tecnoquadri Srl Source (New) Manufacturing Italy Yes 33,000,000 Asia Insurance Co.

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Information Governance Perspectives

JULY 23, 2020

It was a pleasure providing an overview of collaboration and videoconferencing tools including CourtCall , Zoom , GoogleMeet, and Microsoft Teams for Execusummit Online earlier this month. Organizations, courts of law, law firms, and attorneys like yourself are going to want to select tools to protect you and your clients from breaches.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schneider Electric hit by Cactus ransomware The Sustainability Business division of the energy company Schneider Electric suffered a ransomware attack on 17 January, disrupting the company’s Resource Advisor platform. Data breached: 13,300,000 records.

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Data Privacy Privacy Insurance Security 88

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption Tools and IT Security Fundamental protocols incorporate encryption to automatically protect data and include internet protocol security (IPSec), Kerberos, Secure Shell (SSH), and the transmission control protocol (TCP). More complex commercial tools provide a variety of encryption solutions or even end-to-end encryption.

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IT Governance

MAY 3, 2022

Ransomware. Ransomware. You can find the full list of data breaches below, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. Cyber attacks. Data breaches. Financial information.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 11, 2023

Grimes Teaches Ransomware Mitigation Cybercriminals have become thoughtful about ransomware attacks; taking time to maximize your organization's potential damage and their payoff. Join Roger for this thought-provoking webinar to learn what you can do to prevent, detect, and mitigate ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 27, 2021

The SolarWinds attack affected a number of government agencies, while the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack nearly shut down the U.S. There also were a range of top executives from other fields, including finance (JPMorgan Chase, TIAA and US Bancorp), insurance, education, and critical infrastructure water and energy.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

Overall, the use of stolen credentials is the overwhelming leader in data breaches, being involved in nearly 45% of breaches – this is more than double the second-place spot of "Other" (which includes a number of types of threat actions) and ransomware, which sits at around 20% of data breaches.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This discussion includes methods, tools, and techniques such as using personae and identifying use cases that have high business value, while minimizing project risks. This part also discusses managing CS risks such as ransomware, privacy, change management, and user adoption. RaaS is a new business model for ransomware developers.

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Digital transformation Risk IT Computer and Electronics 54

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Fortunately, vendor surveys identify five key cybersecurity threats to watch for in 2024: compromised credentials, attacks on infrastructure, organized and advanced adversaries, ransomware, and uncontrolled devices. 13% maintain access to company tools or resources after leaving the organization.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The Solar Winds hack demonstrated supply chain exposures; the attempted poisoning of a Tampa suburb’s water supply highlighted public utilities at risk; and the Colonial Winds ransomware attack signaled cyber extortionist rings continuing to run rampant. Ransomware has been working well for the bad guys for quite some time now.

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

The next layer in your defense should be a user that's properly educated using security awareness training to easily identify financial fraud and other phishing-based threats, stopping them before they do actual damage. link] Cyber Insurance: Is Paying a Ransom Counter-Productive? We can't (yet) stop ransomware.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Known data breached Discord (via Spy.pet) Source (New) IT services USA Yes 4,186,879,104 Baidu, Inc., Source (New) Finance USA Yes 1,955,385 BerryDunn and Reliable Networks Source (New) Finance and IT services USA Yes 1,107,354 VISAV Limited Source (New) IT services UK Yes >1,000,000 Designed Receivable Solutions, Inc.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

8 TB of data exfiltrated from Advantage Group International Following an outage affecting its leak site (see the ‘Enforcement’ section below), the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group is listing only a single incident: a data breach affecting the business management consultant Advantage Group International. Source (New) Finance USA Yes 1.1

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Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

million) India’s public education app exposed millions of students’ data (1.6 million) India’s public education app exposed millions of students’ data (1.6 million) India’s public education app exposed millions of students’ data (1.6 Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

As wake up calls go, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware hack was piercing. This very high-profile caper is part of an extended surge of ransomware attacks, which quintupled globally between the first quarter of 2018 and the fourth quarter of 2020, and is expected to rise 20 percent to 40 percent this year, according to insurance giant Aon.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Even the most resilient systems today can still be breached with the right tools and sufficient resources, and there is not yet a unified theory or framework for addressing vulnerabilities in every context. Principle 5. In addition, evidence is mounting that regulators also view oversight of cyber protections as a board responsibility.

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

And this enormous security gap leaves you open to business email compromise, session hijacking, ransomware and more. We recently purchased the PhishER platform to be added to our KnowBe4 suite of tools to assist my team. Now they're more targeted, more cunning and more dangerous. Join Roger A. and Greg Y.

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