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Top 5 Industries Most Vulnerable to Data Breaches in 2023

Security Boulevard

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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T-Mobile Confirms Data Breach, Says Too Early to Assess Damage

eSecurity Planet

“The data leaked in this breach is reported as being already accessible to cybercriminals, who could now weaponize it to formulate sophisticated phishing attacks targeting the victims,” Chapman said. “In In 2018, a compromise of T-Mobile systems resulted in personal information of 2 million customers being stolen.

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New Cyberthreats for 2021

Adam Levin

Approximately 30% of phishing web pages were related to Covid-19. In April 2020, Google reported 18 million instances per day of malware and phishing email sent via its Gmail service using Covid-related topics as a lure. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s.

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Three cybercrime technology trends to watch in 2023

CyberSecurity Insiders

As your technologies proliferate so, too, do your endpoints, each a potential avenue for breach – and they may number in the thousands. Already some have used the OpenAI platform to have ChatGPT write phishing emails and insert malicious links. Without automation, continuously protecting them all will be impossible.

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The Only Thing Surprising About The Crippling Ransomware Attack On A Major US Fuel Pipeline Is That Anyone Is Surprised That The Attack Succeeded

Joseph Steinberg

In 2018, we learned that hackers had disrupted various communications systems used by American natural gas pipeline companies by breaching the third-party operators of those systems; while those attacks did not disrupt gas supplies, they did cause reporting problems and billing delays. Nor were those isolated incidents.

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MY TAKE: What it takes to beat cybercrime in the age of DX and IoT: personal responsibility

The Last Watchdog

Year-in and year-out, criminal innovation has far outpaced the effort on the part of companies and governments to defend their business networks, as well as to preserve the sanctity of our private data. 2018 was no exception. Disclosures of huge data breaches no longer shock the public. Shock-immune public.

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BEC Still #1, but Investment Fraud passes Romance Scams

Security Boulevard

Personal Data Breach. Corporate Data Breach. Phishing/Vishing/Smishing/Pharming. The theory was that their advanced Artificial Intelligence was doing Bitcoin trading to make amazing profits. . $1,866,642,107. Investment. 1,455,943,193. 336,469,000. Confidence Fraud/Romance. 956,039,739. 600,249,821.

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