Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

Researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes linked a series of ransomware attacks to the China-linked APT27 group. Security researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes investigated a series of ransomware attacks against multiple organizations and linked them to China-linked APT groups. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

government offers rewards of up to $15 million for information that could lead to the identification or location of LockBit ransomware gang members and affiliates. According to the press release published by the Department of State , the Lockbit ransomware operators carried out over 2,000 attacks against victims worldwide since January 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Key trends: 1️ Increased Ransomware Activity Targeting Public Companies Ransomware groups are poised to intensify their focus on publicly-traded organizations. Recent U.S. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, 2024 Cyber Threat Landscape Forecast)

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 13, 2021

. “Cryptoassets have become an important tool for cybercriminals,” Robinson wrote. “The likes of ransomware and darknet markets rely on payments being made in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. “To date, this type of analysis has been used primarily by regulated financial service providers.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Law enforcement provided additional details about the international Operation Cronos that led to the disruption of the Lockbit ransomware operation. Yesterday, a joint law enforcement action, code-named Operation Cronos , conducted by law enforcement agencies from 11 countries disrupted the LockBit ransomware operation.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Cloud hosted email services have come into wide use as the go-to communication and collaboration work tools for businesses far and wide. What’s more, many of the organizations migrating to cloud IT infrastructure services are patching together hybrid email systems, part on-premises and part cloud-hosted. Best practices a must.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

million patient visits stolen in ransomware attack Date of breach: 23 October 2023 Breached organisation: Bluewater Health and Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Incident details: A database containing information about 5.6 Records breached: 79,582 Ontario hospitals update: information relating to 5.6 Approximately 1.3

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. Image: Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Also read : Is the Answer to Vulnerabilities Patch Management as a Service? Ransomware is the most feared cybersecurity threat, and with good reason: Its ability to destroy and steal data is almost without peer. Continuous pentesting and ransomware simulations are among Airiam’s many controls. Backup Is Hard. Really Hard.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

A digital identification tool provided by OCR Labs to major banks and government agencies leaked sensitive credentials, putting clients at severe risk. London-based OCR Labs is a major provider of digital ID verification tools. Data leak affected QBANK, Defence Bank, Bloom Money, Admiral Money, MA Money, and Reed.

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

That's right – the financial services industry, at least according to cybersecurity vendor Armorblox's 2023 Email Security Threat Report. According to the report, the financial services industry as a target has increased by 72% over 2022 and was the single largest target of financial fraud attacks, representing 49% of all such attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bad actors are increasingly using a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver ransomware and other malicious code in email campaigns aimed at financial services firms and other organizations, according to Microsoft researchers. See also: How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks. What Is HTML Smuggling?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

“Over the past few months, we’ve seen actors provide access to services that call victims, appear as a legitimate call from a specific bank and deceive victims into typing an OTP or other verification code into a mobile phone in order to capture and deliver the codes to the operator,” the Intel 471 researchers wrote.

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Data Matters

MARCH 21, 2022

Congress has passed a significant new cybersecurity law that will require critical infrastructure entities to report material cybersecurity incidents and ransomware payments to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within 72 and 24 hours, respectively. a supply chain compromise.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Finally, the transportation management data is still important to protect, but perhaps not as financially or legally critical as the others. A CRM at a large financial services company might have an RTO of 15 minutes, while a storage archive for cold data may have an RTO of 12-24 hours. Forensics tools are also helpful.

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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 It is not known how long the database was publicly available, nor whether anyone else accessed it. Date breached: 384,658,212 records. Data breached: 2.7

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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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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2018

Ransomware, including Petya , WannaCry and NotPetya. New report reveals technology concerns for financial and public sectors in 2018. According to a recent study from Invotra , the financial services industry and the public sector both fear sophisticated, harmful cyber threats in 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

As a bonus, many of these tools are free to access and have specialized feeds that focus on different industries and sectors. Cons Though free tools and integrations are available, OTX works best with paid AT&T Cybersecurity products like AlienVault USM. Threat dashboards are highly intuitive and easy to read. account.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

ransomware). According to the report, almost all (97%) of financial services organizations store data in the cloud. Healthcare organizations require tools to manage the complexity of securing their sensitive data, spanning legacy on-premise infrastructure and modern, cloud-based platforms. of total budget.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 26, 2021

For example, financial services firms may be worried about employees breaching insider trading laws. Additionally, the Cloud service provider itself may be vulnerable to attacks – as we saw recently with the ransomware attack on Kaseya.

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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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Data Protection Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

On July 29, 2022, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a “pre-proposed outreach” of material proposed changes to almost every section of its cybersecurity regulations, and would affect each entity covered by the current regulations of 23 NYCRR Part 500. Extortion Payments.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

EternalBlue is a Windows exploit created by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and used in the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack. These data packets can contain malware such as a trojan, ransomware, or similar dangerous program. Similar tools or databases listing vulnerable systems can also aid in identifying targets.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

And DDoS attackers have adopted a tactic from ransomware groups and are seeking payment from victims and potential victims. Meanwhile, the 2021 State of the Data Center Industry research report placed DDoS behind ransomware as the threats that most worry the enterprise. Key Differentiators. Stops Layer 3, 4 and 7 attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Cyber attacks continue to grow in sophistication, and ransomware attacks are only the tip of the iceberg. Current authentication tools focus on single sign on. This lack of extended security cannot be addressed through legacy sign-on authentication tools such as Microsoft Hello , that rely on one-time image authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Furthermore, 50% encountered ransomware and other malware; 29% reported incidents of data getting exposed; 25% had accounts compromised; and 17% dealt with incidents of crypto-jacking. LW: Shifting gears a bit, what’s going on with ransomware? And now we have that same pattern playing out, once more, with cloud migration.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In addition to mandatory and routine training and security tools, the best way to ensure employees are vigilant about potential risks is to help them reframe their online mindset while encouraging them to leverage critical thinking in evaluating and defending against internal and external threats," Watson says.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2021

The Biggest Ransomware Demand in History. The latest episode in the story is Acer Computer, who fell victim to a ransomware attack. While ransomware attacks have become a ubiquitous event these days, what makes this attack distinctive is the ransom demand itself. . REvil uses the Ransomware 2.0

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

In this episode, Jason Kent from Cequence Security talks about his experience hacking a garage door opener API, the tools he uses such as Burp, ZAP, and APK tool, and why we need to be paying more attention to the OWASP API Security Top 10. Kent: I opened the door and I closed the door so I use the service the way you're supposed to.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

In this episode, Jason Kent from Cequence Security talks about his experience hacking a garage door opener API, the tools he uses such as Burp, ZAP, and APK tool, and why we need to be paying more attention to the OWASP API Security Top 10. Kent: I opened the door and I closed the door so I use the service the way you're supposed to.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In recent years, ransomware has gotten the lion’s share of attention from the highest levels of the tech and security industries as well as the federal government, including the Biden Administration. million requests per second against a target in the financial services industry. DDoS an Ongoing Threat. million DDoS attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Lucy’s’s software allows companies to easily set-up customizable mock attacks to test employees’ readiness to avoid phishing, ransomware and other attacks with a social engineering component. And they also increasingly leveraged hosted servers and public cloud tools, thus adding to their stealth factor. This is a very creative tool.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Likewise, if one storage location goes off line for any reason, say a ransomware attack or an earthquake, the full data set can be recovered from the other locations. If a hacker successfully breaches one storage location, the data stolen would be unintelligible, since full decryption requires keys stored at one other location.

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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.

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