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£60 million in recovery costs for Norsk Hydro after refusing ransom demand

IT Governance

How the incident occurred. On 19 March 2019, Norsk Hydro’s systems were infected with the LockerGoga ransomware. TrendMicro’s analysis into the ransomware found that it was the same system administration tool abused by the likes of SOREBRECT and Bad Rabbit. Second, you should boost staff awareness of ransomware.

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NEW TECH: Votiro takes ‘white-listing’ approach to defusing weaponized documents

The Last Watchdog

A lot of business today rely on using these basic tools on a daily basis, for HR to review resumes, to process insurance claims, to open up financial tables, all those kinds of things,” Grafi noted. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users

KnowBe4

1942 - ) Thanks for reading CyberheistNews You can read CyberheistNews online at our Blog [link] Security News WSJ: "Merck's Insurers on the Hook in $1.4 New Jersey appellate division judges rejected the insurers' argument that the 2017 attack, which U.S. must help cover $1.4 billion in losses." must help cover $1.4 billion in losses."

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears

KnowBe4

In another case, a doctor input his patient's name and their medical condition and asked ChatGPT to craft a letter to the patient's insurance company. "In one case, an executive cut and pasted the firm's 2023 strategy document into ChatGPT and asked it to create a PowerPoint deck.