Centraleyes

APRIL 9, 2024

According to IBM’s recently released “Cost of a Data Breach” statistics report, the average financial toll of a data breach has surged to an unprecedented $4.45 Regional Disparities in Data Breach Costs The United States emerges with a significantly higher average cost of $9.4

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

million patients have been impacted by a health care data breach so far in 2021, a whopping 185% increase from the same time period last year where just 7.9 The health care sector saw over 6,000 phishing emails out of an average of 451,792 emails. of all phishing attacks were business email compromise attempts, and just 2.2%

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

According to Verizon’s most recent Data Breach Incident Report , instances of advanced ransomware have doubled in the past year, alongside major upticks in phishing attacks and social engineering. Don’t worry though, there's already an insurance policy for that. What is Cyber Liability Insurance?

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Webroot

JULY 25, 2022

Cyber insurance becomes mainstream discussion. As cyberattacks have become more costly and more challenging to track, cyber insurance has gained prominence across the industry. The cyber insurance market is expected to reach around $20B by 2025.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 22, 2021

Organisations are coming under increasing pressure to take out cybersecurity insurance cover. Also known as cyber risk insurance, it’s now a prerequisite in some public sector tenders. Sometimes, contracts or proposals ask suppliers for both cybersecurity insurance and documented security controls.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Cyber Crime Surge: During COVID-19 , cyber crimes shot up by 600%, showing how threats adapt to global changes. Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Data Breach Costs: The average global cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

Phishing attacks? With sweeping speed, users across the world grew in the millions thanks to Mr. The Role Of Cybersecurity Insurance In A Predictive Security. Cybersecurity insurance in recent years has become a modern day stopgap for corporations looking to offset their losses for attacks. Answer: More capacity!

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

Hackers used phishing emails to break into a Virginia bank in two separate cyber intrusions over an eight-month period, making off with more than $2.4 Now the financial institution is suing its insurance provider for refusing to fully cover the losses. million total. THE LAWSUIT.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

There are three big ones: Phishing : If you have a DNS filter, as soon as someone in your business clicks a link to a malicious website, they’re prevented from visiting it. Bonus: Cyber insurance. Without cyber insurance, you can expect to pay a dizzying amount of cash. Let’s recap.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Kinsing threat actors probed the Looney Tunables flaws in recent attacks ZDI discloses four zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange Okta customer support system breach impacted 134 customers Multiple WhatsApp mods spotted containing the CanesSpy Spyware Russian FSB arrested Russian hackers who supported Ukrainian cyber operations MuddyWater has been spotted (..)

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The number of ransomware attacks has increased by 18% , while the worldwide volume of phishing attacks doubled to 500 million in 2022. billion to data breaches and cybercrime. The best way to weather these challenges is to become a cyber resilient business. Here are two tools that can protect your data: 1.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

First, however, let's look at the top 15 cyber threats organizations face right now, according to the report: Malware. Data Breach. Cyber Espionage. 50%_increase in malware designed to steal personal data or stalkerware. Web-based Attacks. Web Application Attacks. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). Ransomware.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Phishing attacks are going to become even more sophisticated, since a lot of basic tactics have already been tried this year, and businesses learned to repel those. As such, we anticipate a booming cyber insurance industry as many organizations heed these warnings and seek to guard against ransomware attacks.

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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s likely we’ll continue to witness a significant shift in the motivation behind prominent cyberattacks, as data sources indicate a resurgence in activities such as information theft, covert communication monitoring, and content manipulation from state sponsored attackers and cybercriminals. The first is by rule making.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 2, 2020

A recent study found that the cyber gap impacts 74 percent of organizations, with 63 percent of cybersecurity professionals reporting that the talent gap increased their workload, 68 percent reporting negative effects on their personal lives, and 38 percent reporting higher burnout rates. 1 Cyber Threat This Year.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Paying for internal assessments and penetration tests by a third party can provide fresh thinking and a level of assurance for stakeholders such as customers, the board of directors, and the insurance company that wrote our cyber insurance policy. Is the attack small enough that we do not need to file a cyber insurance claim?

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Cyber Resilience Review (CRR) : The CRR assessment evaluates your organization’s operational resilience and cybersecurity practices. Phishing Campaign Assessment (PCA) : Evaluates an organization’s susceptibility and reaction to phishing emails. Take cyber insurance , for example.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Target the human, swipe the cash: Verizon DBIR 2023 highlights crime trends Manage the human risk and mind your money: those are two key takeaways from Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. Phishing frauds involving email, text messages and video were up by 417 per cent in the same time period.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

A recent domain hijack of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck.com was used to spoof the company in a spear-phishing campaign. We are all weary of the endless cycle of hacks and data breaches and we’re increasingly blaming businesses that have been compromised rather than the hackers themselves.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2023

Mika Aalto, Co-Founder and CEO at Hoxhunt : "Today, most security leaders admit that data breaches are a question of 'when,' not 'if,' because most have responded to an incident within the past few years.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

T-Mobile confirms Lapsus$ had access its systems Are you using Java 15/16/17 or 18 in production? Patch them now!

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. Health data and patient data in the U.S. The post Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

That is exponentially more expensive than other cyber events. Consider that the average cost for a ransomware attack against a business is about $4,400, and your run of the mill phishing incident weighs in at a much less hefty $500. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing? BEC has a home In the pantheon of ishings.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Phishing attacks, for instance, are extremely common: these are deceptive emails or messages designed to steal data. Ransomware is another significant threat, where attackers encrypt an organization's data and demand payment for its release. Because of this, it's crucial to understand the types of threats nonprofits face.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

fewer of you to go around because at this moment in history everyone understands that a good CISO is critical to the ongoing success of an enterprise (the 2019 IBM Cost of Data Breach study found that the average cost to an organization was $3.92 You’re going to have personal cyber insurance.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Earlier this year, FICO began touting its Cyber Risk Score (PDF), which seeks to measure an organization’s chances of experiencing a data breach in the next 12 months, based on a variety of measurements tied to the company’s public-facing online assets. In October, FICO teamed up with the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In a BEC incident, you're almost certainly going to be handling a combination of: • wire transfers or other financial losses; • compromised sensitive information, such as employee or customer data; • potential email server and data breaches of unknown size; and • branding and reputation issues. BEC-IRP Section 2: Identification.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2019 cited the following: Lost business is the biggest contributor to data breach costs The average cost of lost business in 2019 was $1.42 Cybersecurity insurance will offset the ransom.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

Traditionally that has meant phishing lures, credential theft and other low-effort pathways, but some observers point to episodes like the recent weaponization of the Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities by multiple ransomware groups and worry that attacks at the application software level could become a more attractive option in the near future.

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