Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Bad news for T-Mobile prepaid customer, the US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a new data breach incident. The US branch of the telecommunications giant T -Mobile disclosed a security breach that according to the company impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2018

billion data records have been exposed in data breached in the first half of 2018. According to a new report titled “ Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView ” published by the cyber threat intelligence company Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed in the first half of 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

“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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. How Did the Data Breach Happen? How and Why We Discovered the Breach. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Data Breach). What’s Going On?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

According to the report, in 2023 tech support scams and extortion crimes increased, while phishing, non-payment/non-delivery scams, and personal data breach slightly decreased. Established in 2018, RAT streamlines communications with financial institutions and FBI field offices to facilitate the freezing of funds for victims.”

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

A statement from the SEC read as follows: “According to SEC, it has penalized eight companies in three actions for negligence of their cyber protection guidelines and procedures that stimulated email account hacks exposing personal data of numerous clients and customers in each firm.” .

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Ilia Kolochenko, Founder of ImmuniWeb and a member of Europol Data Protection Experts Network, said this about the incident: "Unprotected APIs are rapidly becoming one of the primary sources of disastrous data breaches. The latest breach is the eighth to hit the company since 2018.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2023

If cybercriminals discover the environment file first, it puts the organization at risk of unauthorized access to critical data, potential data breaches, data tampering, financial losses, reputational damage, and legal and compliance issues,” Cybernews researchers write.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Hackers were also quick to pounce on the disruption caused by the 2018 shutdown of the U.S. ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. A recent domain hijack of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck.com was used to spoof the company in a spear-phishing campaign. What Can Be Done?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Enterprises and big brands may receive unwanted publicity for cyberattacks and data breaches, but smaller doesn’t mean safer. In fact, website attacks increased 14 percent in Q1 2018 compared to Q4 2017 as cybercriminals set their sights on independent websites and small businesses. There’s no such thing as too small to hack.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core. That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. This quickly gets intricately technical.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

A hacker going online by the moniker AmFearLiathMor is claiming to have hacked the most popular end-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail. At the time it is not clear if the hacker belongs to a cyber crime gang, it claims to have stolen a “significant” amounts of data from the company. The ransom demand ( archive.is

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

A database belonging to TicketClub Italy, a company providing coupons platform for offline purchases, is available for sale on darkweb hacking forums. The information has been originally published at RaidForums which are known for the illegal selling of any data loss from Internet portals and insecure online services. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

billion in 2018. billion in 2018. According to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 43% of all nefarious online activities impacted small businesses. These rising expenses are representative of the multiyear financial impact of breaches, increased regulation and the complex process of resolving criminal attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

users Thousands of WordPress WooCommerce stores potentially exposed to hack. users Thousands of WordPress WooCommerce stores potentially exposed to hack. users Thousands of WordPress WooCommerce stores potentially exposed to hack. users Thousands of WordPress WooCommerce stores potentially exposed to hack.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, our annual security report illustrates that the number of daily website attack attempts increased by 59% between January 2018 and December 2018. A phishing attack is when cybercriminals send fraudulent emails to obtain sensitive information. Data breaches will cost your company, but they don’t have to mean the end.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. ” reads a “ Notice of Data Breach” sent to users impacted and shared by BleepingComputer. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2019

Indian information technology (IT) outsourcing and consulting giant Wipro Ltd. [ NYSE:WIT ] is investigating reports that its own IT systems have been hacked and are being used to launch attacks against some of the company’s customers, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The apparent breach comes amid shifting fortunes at Wipro.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

At this time it is unclear for how long the data remained exposed online without protection. “The British Council takes its responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) very seriously. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data leak). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

While you may disagree, data breach studies show that employees and negligence are the most typical causes of security breaches, yet these prevalent issues are least discussed. According to another study by CybSafe, human errors have been responsible for over 90% of data breaches in 2020.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

million) in just in 2 days. · CVE-2018-14023 – Recovering expired messages from Signal. · Linux Kernel Project rolled out security updates to fix two DoS vulnerabilities. · 2.6 billion records exposed in 2,308 disclosed data breaches in H1. · Marap modular downloader opens the doors to further attacks.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. com , an Arabic-language computer hacking forum. But he denied ever participating in illegal hacking activities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Personal information belonging to over 500,000 students and 50 district employees were exposed in the San Diego School District (SDUSD) security breach. An attacker sent spear-phishing to SDUSD personnel with the intent of trick them into revealing credentials to access the district’s network services. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Security experts at Symantec linked the massive Singapore Healthcare breach suffered by SingHealth to the ‘Whitefly’ cyberespionage group. In 2018, the largest healthcare group in Singapore, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed personal information of 1.5

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2018

12, KrebsOnSecurity carried an exclusive : The FBI was warning banks about an imminent “ATM cashout” scheme about to unfold across the globe, thanks to a data breach at an unknown financial institution. On Sunday, Aug. million unauthorized ATM withdrawals from more than two dozen cash machines across multiple countries.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Researcher released PoC exploit code for 3 iOS zero-day issues Cisco addresses 3 critical vulnerabilities in IOS XE Software 3.8 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 333 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2018

France data protection agency fines Uber 400k Euros Over 2016 Data Breach. Hacking the Twinkly IoT Christmas lights. Hackers launched phishing attacks aimed at bypassing Gmail, Yahoo 2FA at scale. Market volume of illegal online sales of alcohol exceeded 30 million USD in 2018 in Russia.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

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? In September 2019, the Bureau announced that the losses from BEC scams had doubled between May 2018 and July 2019.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

The crooks responsible for launching phishing campaigns that netted dozens of employees and more than 100 computer systems last month at Wipro , India’s third-largest IT outsourcing firm, also appear to have targeted a number of other competing providers, including Infosys and Cognizant , new evidence suggests. Image: urlscan.io.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy. · What Happens to Whistleblowers After They Blow the Whistle?

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 9, 2020

million following a cyber attack in 2018 which flagged that it was failing to keep its customers’ personal data secure. Many people still believe they are immune to hacking despite regular sensationalist news stories about the latest data breach, and evidence to the contrary. Why phishing works.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

We engaged one of the leading data security firms to conduct a thorough investigation, which traced the unauthorized activity to a phishing email received in July 2018. ” The company hired a security firm to investigate the incident, it discovered that the attack begun with a phishing email received in July 2018.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. Billion malicious login attempts from bots in May and June, an overall number of 30 billion malicious logins were observed between November 2017 and June 2018, an average of 3.75

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. In the U.S.,

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

How not to disclosure a Hack. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. The clothes retailer revealed a data theft which included its customer's full names, home addresses, email addresses, and partial debitcredit card details. conduct employee phishing tests.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 12, 2021

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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