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Resecurity Released a Status Report on Drug Trafficking in the Dark Web (2022-2023)

Security Affairs

Resecurity estimates this figure to be significantly higher in 2023, the annual sale of illegal drugs on the Dark Web for 2022 exceeded $470 million – which is the result of increased geopolitical tensions, global pandemics, and the unprecedented growth of the international shadow economy.

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FIN11 gang started deploying ransomware to monetize its operations

Security Affairs

Since August, FIN11 started targeting organizations in many industries, including defense, energy, finance, healthcare, legal, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, technology, and transportation. In recent attacks, the group was observed deploying the Clop ransomware into the networks of its victims.

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Q&A: How AI, digital transformation are shaking up revenue management in high tech, life sciences

The Last Watchdog

Model N’s 2019 State of Revenue Report surveyed CEOs, CMOs and senior sales executives from leading pharmaceutical, medical devices, high-tech manufacturing and semiconductor companies. LW: Your survey drills down on revenue generation macro trends. Related: AI one-upsmanship prevails in antivirus field.

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Why You Need to Tune EDR to Secure Your Environment

eSecurity Planet

Similarly, in most companies, the sales team should never be trying to access the corporate server’s Active Directory. In a big multinational electronics manufacturer, for example, the accounting team may need to enable macros for their complex Excel spreadsheets, but the sales executives may not have any reason to do so.

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Encryption – A Feasible Savior against Prevalent Privacy Issues in Business Communication

Security Affairs

The type of data that each email contains vary from sales objectives to product specs and even product patents. Safeguard the integrity of intellectual property, especially when there’s a risk of corporate espionage, which is prevalent in industries like pharmaceuticals, etc. Final Thoughts.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Inferences drawn from any of the information identified” above “to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, preferences, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.”. Personal information does not include publicly available information.

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Unproven Coronavirus Therapy Proves Cash Cow for Shadow Pharmacies

Krebs on Security

A review of the sales figures from some of the top pharmacy affiliate programs suggests sales of drugs containing hydroxychloroquine rivaled that of their primary product — generic Viagra and Cialis — and that this as-yet-unproven Coronavirus treatment accounted for as much as 25 to 30 percent of all sales over the past month.

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