Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Black Basta ransomware group added Southern Water to the list of victims on its Tor data leak site and threatened to leak the stolen data on February 29, 2024. At this time, it is unknown what ransom the group has demanded from the victim. At this time, it is unknown what ransom the group has demanded from the victim.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

authorities have seized the darknet websites run by LockBit , a prolific and destructive ransomware group that has claimed more than 2,000 victims worldwide and extorted over $120 million in payments. This prompted several XSS members to start posting memes taunting the group about the security failure. ” one denizen quipped.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially devious. Holden’s team gained visibility into discussions among members of two different ransom groups: CLOP (a.k.a. “ Cl0p ” a.k.a. Last month, the U.S.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 14, 2019

On December 19, 2018, Ohio adopted the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law. The Act is designed to “establish standards for data security and for the investigation and notification to the Superintendent of Insurance of a cybersecurity event.”. O.R.C. §§ 3965.01(E).

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

On December 28, 2018, Michigan adopted the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law in the form of Michigan H.B. The Act defines licensees as persons authorized, registered, or licensed under Michigan insurance laws or required to be so. 6491 (Act). MCL § 500.550.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2019

-based PerCSoft is a cloud management provider for Digital Dental Record (DDR), which operates an online data backup service called DDS Safe that archives medical records, charts, insurance documents and other personal information for various dental offices across the United States. PercSoft did not respond to requests for comment.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. The company has operations in 25 countries, more than 4,000 employees, and billions in revenue annually.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

However, even with the best planning, organizations can find a few users, machines, or systems that were overlooked or whose backup may be corrupted or encrypted. First, call the cyber insurance company that issued the organization’s cybersecurity policy. Insured companies often will not have options. Eliminate attacker access.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2021

This story isn’t about what organizations do in response to cybercriminals holding their data for hostage , which has become something of a best practice among most of the top ransomware crime groups today. We have backups, the data is there, but the application to actually do the restoration is encrypted.’

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 7, 2019

The attack on CTS comes little more than two months after Sodinokibi hit Wisconsin-based dental IT provider PerCSoft , an intrusion that encrypted files for approximately 400 dental practices. “I would recommend everyone reach out to their insurance provider,” said one dentist based in Denver.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

MILES/CBS NEWS TEXAS The Royal ransomware group is behind the attack and threatens to publish stolen data if the City will not meet its ransom demand. Once obtained access to the City’s network, the group performed reconnaissance and information-gathering activities using legitimate third-party remote management tools.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2022

Service was then resumed in mid-May, and a group called Darkside was involved in the attack, according to the FBI. For example, both directives makes it mandatory for all agencies to deploy multi-factor authentication and encryption. Cyber insurance coverage ramps up. Encrypt sensitive data at rest, in motion and in use.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2021

based PrismHR handles everything from payroll processing and human resources to health insurance and tax forms for hundreds of “professional employer organizations” (PEOs) that serve more than two million employees. Hopkinton, Mass.-based PrismHR has not yet responded to requests for comment.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2019

The Dark Overlord hacking group claims to have stolen a huge trove of documents from the British insurance company Hiscox, Hackers stole “hundreds of thousands of documents,” including tens of thousands files related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “What’s the takeaway? .”

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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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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

OCTOBER 22, 2022

US government agencies warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting the U.S. CISA, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting U.S. Healthcare and Public Health sector with ransomware. ” reads the alert. administrative?accounts,

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 10, 2019

The analysis was conducted by the Aite Group, which looked at mobile apps in eight categories: retail banking, credit cards, mobile payment, healthcare savings, retail finance, health insurance, auto insurance and cryptocurrency.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Double extortion ransomware is a growing type of cyber-attack in which a victim’s sensitive data is first stolen, and then encrypted, giving the criminal the option of demanding two separate ransom payments. Simplistically, suppose the sensitive data is already encrypted. To learn more, contact an encryption specialist.

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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

MAY 13, 2021

FBI and DHS’s CISA have published a joint alert to warn of ransomware attacks conducted by the DarkSide group. The Darkside ransomware gang first emerged in the threat landscape in August 2020, in recent months the group was very active and targeted organizations worldwide. 3 ],[ 4 ]” reads the joint alert.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 9, 2020

To date, the company can confirm that whilst there has been some data encryption, there is no evidence that structured personal customer data has been encrypted. The hackers claim to have six months’ worth of sensitive customer data containing birthdates, credit card information, and insurance numbers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

. “Sources told Action News, the cybercriminals gained control of the network on Saturday encrypting files, including police reports, payroll, purchasing, and other databases. “Sources said the county is in the process of paying the $500,000 ransom as it’s insured for such attacks.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

” Cyber Insurance No Longer Reliable. ” Crockett said unofficial numbers indicate that only about 10 percent of such cyber insurance claims are paid out. ” Crockett said unofficial numbers indicate that only about 10 percent of such cyber insurance claims are paid out.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On 14 September, Mulkay discovered that the compromised files contained personal information, including “name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, driver’s license number or state ID, medical treatment information, and health insurance information”. Customer data, which was encrypted, was reported to be unaffected.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

CNA Financial (March 2021) – CNA Financial, one of the largest insurance companies in the US, reportedly paid a $40 ransom to restore access to its files following a ransomware attack that took place in March. Because the tool was too slow, the company used its backups to restore the systems.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Read more: REvil Ransomware Group Resurfaces After Two Months Away. For ransomware attacks where network data gets encrypted , backups are the definitive method for restoring network infrastructure. Alongside these more sophisticated tactics , ransomware attacks now go beyond just encrypting network data.

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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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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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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 !!! Statistics.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to the CISA’s report , Iranian hackers from an unnamed APT group are employing several known web shells, in attacks on IT, government, healthcare, financial, and insurance organizations across the United States. A web shell is a code, often written in typical web development programming languages (e.g.,

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In the 2021 FBI report, individuals over 60 years of age had the highest number of complaints of any age group with 92,371 and the highest amount of reported losses with $1.68 Of the six age groups listed (under 20, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69), the three oldest age groups reported $4.13 for individuals under 40.

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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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