Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The most severe financial damage has occurred as a result of ransomware activity. Group-IB: The ransomware plague cost the world over $1 billion. Late 2019 and all of 2020 were marked by an unprecedented surge in ransomware attacks. The past year — a harrowing period for the world economy — culminated in the spike of cybercrime.

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IT Governance

APRIL 2, 2020

Ransomware. London-based clinical pharmacology testing firm recovers swiftly from Maze ransomware (unknown). Minnesota-based Community Development Bank struck by ransomware (unknown). Prince Edward Island notifies patients of ransomware attack (unknown). Spartanburg School District 1 hit with ransomware (5,082).

Data breaches 143

Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Phishing 143

IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Data scraping site taken offline after billions of Discord users’ messages offered for sale A data scraping website called Spy.pet has been taken offline after harvesting more than 4 billion messages made by almost 630 million Discord users and offering them for sale.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Source (New) Retail Italy Yes 436,932 Toner-dumping.de Data breached: 6.9

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Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Ransomware. Ransomware. d/b/a Watson Electrical announces ransomware attack (unknown). d/b/a Watson Electrical announces ransomware attack (unknown). d/b/a Watson Electrical announces ransomware attack (unknown). You can find the full list of incidents below, broken into their respective categories. Cyber attacks.

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Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Phishing 116

Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The incidence of ransomware attacks has continued to climb, over 700% by some estimates in 2020 in comparison to 2019, with phishing emails being the primary vector. Many online retailers depend heavily on outreach and advertising via email and social media networks to bolster their sales through the holiday season.

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Cybersecurity Retail Phishing Sales 76

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

A month later, a ransomware attack shut down the company’s operations in Italy and China. The information was offered for a private sale on the now-defunct hacking forum Breached, and it was later leaked in its entirety for free. One criminal gang said that it had targeted the organisation and encrypted its systems.

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Data breaches Insurance Personal data Ransomware 122

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Application Access: A retail website can make more requests than human users on any resource. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) : In today’s ransomware-riddled environment, two-factor authentication should also be considered a minimum requirement for all forms of remote access. Critical resources need additional protection.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware. Unlike ransomware, it might be a criminal operation that does not involve the collection of a ransom. Email is also usually how ransomware works. RAM scraper malware, also known as Point-of-Sale (POS) malware , harvests data temporarily stored in a system’s memory, also known as random access memory (RAM).

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

April saw a ransomware gang bucking the much-repeated advice given by cyber security researchers that criminal hackers target vulnerabilities rather than specific organisations. The story only became more curious when the group put the information up for sale on the dark web for a little over $64,000 (about £51,000) in bitcoin.

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Security Data breaches Ransomware Military 132

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Imagine you’re a retailer with 50 store locations. If your internal point-of-sale system goes down, you’re no longer able to complete in-store transactions until the server outage is fixed. In the early stages of the pandemic, the exploited Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) was one of the most common ransomware attack vectors.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Stolen social media accounts are also for sale: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Gmail, Instagram, Spotify, Twitch, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Soundcloud are all listed with prices that vary from 5USD to 80USD, the specific platform, the number of followers, and other variables. More retailers accept several forms of online payments.

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Marketing Passwords Personal data Encryption 111

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As such, it encompasses areas such as antivirus , anti-spam, malware protection , ransomware protection , and mobile device protection. It is an AI-enhanced UEM and endpoint security platform that tends to focus on the midsize market in verticals such as technology, retail, and manufacturing. Key Differentiators. Key Differentiators.

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