IT Governance

APRIL 28, 2022

The Stormous ransomware gang announced earlier this week that it had hacked Coca-Cola and stolen 161 gigabytes of data. Unlike most cyber attacks, ransomware isn’t designed to sneak in undetected and exfiltrate data before the organisation closes the vulnerability.

Ransomware 127

Ransomware Phishing Encryption Sales 127

IT Governance

JUNE 16, 2022

See also: UK Organisations at Risk of Cyber Attacks After Ukraine Invasion Pro-Russian Criminal Hackers Target the Eurovision Song Contest Brits Express Greater Concern Over Data Privacy as Cyber Attacks Soar. The problem might be that the clip was too close to reality. Both sides have used cyber attacks to support hard power.

Military 111

Military Marketing Data Privacy Risk 111

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

But according to information obtained by KrebsOnSecurity, it is equally likely Vrublevsky was arrested thanks to his propensity for carefully documenting the links between Russia’s state security services and the cybercriminal underground. An undated photo of Vrublevsky at his ChronoPay office in Moscow. Some pay, some don’t.

Risk 186

Risk Marketing Archiving IT 186

Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

Unlike other ransomware strains that don’t encrypt victims in Russia and other CIS countries, Shade also targets computers in Russia and Ukraine. Now we made a decision to put the last point in this story and to publish all the decryption keys we have (over 750 thousands at all).

Ransomware 124

Ransomware File names Education Encryption 124

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Stack , which broke the story, was alerted to the attack after discovering a tender document that was published, seemingly by mistake, on the government’s website. It led to worrying signs that the tensions would play out as an online proxy war, with UK and other countries that opposed Russia’s military action coming under attack.

Military 98

Military Government Paper Security 98

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to your readership and support, I was able to spend more time in 2022 on some deep, meaty investigative stories — the really satisfying kind with the potential to affect positive change. I will also continue to post on LinkedIn about new stories in 2023.

Passwords 224

Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Encryption 224

IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Meanwhile, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) enforcement continues apace.

Security 132

Security Data breaches Ransomware Military 132

Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity has identified the owner of RSOCKS as a 35-year-old from Omsk, Russia who runs the world’s largest forum catering to spammers. Shortly after last week’s story on the RSOCKS founder, I heard from Riley Kilmer , co-founder of Spur.us , a startup that tracks criminal proxy services. ru and alphadisplay[.]ru,

Passwords 233

Passwords Analytics Manufacturing Sales 233

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Hacking groups linked to Russia, China and India are leveraging a novel attack technique that makes it easier for them to spread malware , steal data and evade detection, according to a report this week by security firm Proofpoint. Also read: Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions for 2021. A Change from Office Files.

Phishing 117

Phishing Cybersecurity Security Ransomware 117

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Department of Justice as a top figure in the JabberZeus Crew , a small but potent cybercriminal collective from Ukraine and Russia that attacked victim companies with a powerful, custom-made version of the Zeus banking trojan. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) declined to comment for this story. Tank, a.k.a.

Phishing 257

Phishing Passwords IT Ransomware 257

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

402,437,094 known records breached in 240 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 2.7

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Here are this week’s stories. According to security researcher Scott Helme , who broke the story, a plug-in called Browsealoud , which helps blind and partially sighted people access the web, was compromised at the weekend and one of its hosted JavaScript files changed to add the Coinhive cryptominer to any page it was loaded to.

Phishing 63

Phishing Mining Libraries Blockchain 63

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Here are this week’s stories. According to Ormandy , Grammarly’s Chrome extension was exposing authentication tokens, potentially allowing anyone to log in to anyone else’s account and access all of their documents – and other data. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 9 February 2018. That’s not all, though.

Passwords 76

Passwords Data breaches GDPR Personal data 76

IT Governance

MARCH 16, 2018

This week, we discuss the ICO’s new GDPR campaign for micro businesses, a potential data breach at Gwent Police, a US$250,000 reward from Binance and Windows Defender stops a massive malware campaign. Here are this week’s stories. Nearly 500,000 instances were recorded, the majority of which (73%) were in Russia.

GDPR 63

GDPR Compliance Data breaches Phishing 63

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Shortly after breaking the Target story, KrebsOnSecurity reported that Rescator appeared to be a hacker from Ukraine. Efforts to confirm my reporting with that individual ended when they declined to answer questions, and after I declined to accept a bribe of $10,000 not to run my story. Chang’s.

Computer and Electronics 216

Computer and Electronics Marketing Sales Healthcare 216

KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

New data found in GreatHorn's 2023 State of Email Security report shows that this is exactly what's been happening in the last 12 months. When people realize the value of their data, they're more vigilant and protective of it," Watson says. Organizations should also have a process for their employees to report suspicious activity.

Phishing 85

Phishing Security awareness Compliance Risk 85

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

Vamosi: There was this short story, and much later a movie, called Ender’s Game. It’s author, Orson Scott Card, told me that he was sitting on his front porch when the idea for the short story came to him full blown. And now the data from that environment is not generic. Lee Rossi, CTO and co founder.of

Military 40

Military Energy and Utilities Government IT 40

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

launder money stolen from their victims and transfer funds to members of the conspiracy based in Russia, Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe. ’s victims led to dozens of stories over several years about small businesses battling their financial institutions to recover their losses. Bogachev, in undated photos.

Government 211

Government Communications IT Education 211

ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled. VAMOSI: Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 28, 2022, members of the Conti ransomware group began leaking information about the internal operations.

Ransomware 40

Ransomware Encryption Authentication Communications 40

Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

After that Fizot story got picked up internationally, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a source who suggested that Yalishanda and Fizot shared some of the same infrastructure. address state that he resides in Vladivostok, which is a major Pacific port city in Russia that is close to the borders with China and North Korea. WHO IS YALISHANDA?

Phishing 177

Phishing Paper Ransomware Government 177

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. In total, 3,876 domain names were included in the exposed data set.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, where he'll share a comprehensive strategy for phishing mitigation. Verizon's Data Breach Report showed that 81% of hacking-related breaches used either stolen and/or weak passwords. officials later blamed on Russia, was akin to an act of war normally excluded from coverage.

Phishing 73

Phishing Passwords Insurance Systems administration 73

The Security Ledger

MAY 3, 2022

The post Feel Good Ukraine Tractor Story Highlights Ag Cyber Risk appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Related Stories DEF CON: Security Holes in Deere, Case IH Shine Spotlight on Agriculture Cyber Risk Episode 235: Justine Bone of MedSec on Healthcare Insecurity Episode 234: Rep. The bad news?

Agriculture 40

Agriculture Risk Military Manufacturing 40

KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

It's not common for any Wells notice to be sent to a company in relation to cybersecurity," a former DoJ prosecutor told me for my story, who said they're typically only sent to CEOs or CFOs over securities or other financial fraud. Zimperium data says otherwise. This may be the first time a CISO got a Wells notice.

Phishing 81

Phishing Security awareness Passwords Computer and Electronics 81

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

Following our Christmas break, we’re rounding up two weeks’ worth of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 1,523,776,691 records. Welcome to a new year!

Data Privacy 107

Data Privacy Insurance Manufacturing Retail 107

IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

16,482,365 known records breached in 240 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: unknown.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 52

KnowBe4

JUNE 27, 2023

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published a data spotlight outlining the most common text message scams. Muddled Libra has shown a penchant for targeting a victim's downstream customers using stolen data and, if allowed, they will return repeatedly to the well to refresh their stolen dataset. video. - W.B.,

Security awareness 89

Security awareness Phishing Ransomware Security 89

ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

There’s an online war in Ukraine, one that you haven’t heard much about because that country is holding its own with an army of infosec volunteers worldwide. But the full story of the bronze soldier affair is only becoming clearer now. Vamosi: His neighbor to the east, Russia, has come up before.

Ransomware 40

Ransomware Military Government Security 40

KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

You can upload your own SCORM training modules into your account for home workers Active Directory or SCIM Integration to easily upload user data, eliminating the need to manually manage user changes Find out how 55,000+ organizations have mobilized their end users as their human firewall. It is a familiar story, but it bears repeating.

Insurance 74

Insurance Security awareness Phishing Ransomware 74

ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

In December, 2016, the lights went out in Kyiv, Ukraine. So it wasn't this story that we hear sometimes thrown around about Lightspeed net speed cyberattacks, you know it was human adversaries doing research on the environment, so the attack starts. Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems. Physical war.

Energy and Utilities 52

Energy and Utilities Manufacturing Risk IT 52

IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals. Data breached: 8 TB.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

5,255,944,117 known records breached in 128 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 52

Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2020

In the 1980s, for example, the Soviet Union spread the false story that the US Department of Defense bioengineered HIV in order to kill African Americans. More recently, in 2018, Russia undertook an extensive disinformation campaign to amplify the anti-vaccination movement using social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

Security 132

Security Cybersecurity Risk Communications 132

KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

You can upload your own SCORM training modules into your account for home workers Active Directory or SCIM Integration to easily upload user data, eliminating the need to manually manage user changes Find out how 55,000+ organizations have mobilized their end-users as their human firewall. Data breaches are getting larger and more frequent.

Cybersecurity 73

Cybersecurity Phishing Security awareness Military 73

KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You can upload your own SCORM training modules into your account for home workers Active Directory or SCIM Integration to easily upload user data, eliminating the need to manually manage user changes Find out how 50,000+ organizations have mobilized their end-users as their human firewall. Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4.

Security awareness 77

Security awareness Phishing Cybersecurity Security 77

Archive-It

MAY 12, 2022

As a youth in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine during the Soviet era, who was taught that the principle of Druzhba Narodov (“the Friendship of the Peoples”) was a multiculturally affirmative counterbalance to American Imperialism, I could never have imagined the conflict and destruction that we all now witness. by Liladhar R.

Archiving 37

Archiving Libraries Access Education 37

KnowBe4

MARCH 21, 2023

You can upload your own SCORM training modules into your account for home workers Active Directory or SCIM Integration to easily upload user data, eliminating the need to manually manage user changes Find out how 50,000+ organizations have mobilized their end-users as their human firewall. In this e-book, Roger A.

Phishing 97

Phishing Security awareness Passwords Marketing 97