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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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Such breaches, unfortunately, have become common. This attack marked its fifth breach since 2018 and, in fact, the company suffered yet another breach – albeit apparently a small one — late in December. In the big picture in security, improvement of IRPs is hardly all companies must do to mitigate cyber breaches.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

. “ Comparitech partnered with security researcher Bob Diachenko to investigate the data exposure, which included sensitive personal and tax information. ” The Elasticsearch database was first indexed by search engines in May 2018, Diachenko discovered it on September 17, 2019, and on September 20, 2019 it was secured.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The statement of work documents for marketing campaigns date between 2018 and 2019: Who owns the bucket? What happened to the data? To see if you have been affected by this breach, we recommend doing the following: Use our personal data leak checker to see if your email address has been leaked.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

. “This could easily be leveraged to build up mass targeted spam or spear phishing,” Hansen said. In July, identity theft protection service LifeLock corrected an information disclosure flaw that exposed the email address of millions of subscribers.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Identity Theft. Data Breach. Physical Manipulation, Damage, Theft and Loss. During the reporting period, Emotet evolved into a botnet, increased its activity, and initiated new localized spam campaigns with spear-phishing functionality to install ransomware or steal information.". Web-based Attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

The timeline of uploads might indicate that these emails have been either stolen or acquired on the black market back in October 2018 , and then gradually decrypted by the owner of the bucket. Attackers can also combine the leaked email addresses with data from other breaches and build more detailed pictures of their potential targets.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

Personal Data Breach. Identity Theft. Corporate Data Breach. Phishing/Vishing/Smishing/Pharming. . $600,249,821. 517,021,289. 194,473,055. Real Estate/Rental. 350,328,166. 213,196,082. Tech Support. 347,657,432. 146,477,709. Non-Payment/Non-Delivery. 337,493,071. 265,011,249. 278,267,918. 219,484,699.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

All of this data is conveniently stored in spreadsheet format that can be easily opened, read, and downloaded by anyone who knows what to look for. The exposed data was hosted on an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) server and located in the US. Who had access?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach. having been breached at some point in the past. billion worth of academic research by performing a phishing scam on university professors.” These are only the most notable breaches. The Threat Level Is Rising.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Also, that threat actors, especially state-sponsored, and criminal enterprises would take advantage of the expanding cyber-attack surface by using their resources to employ more sophisticated means for discovering target vulnerabilities, automating phishing, and finding new deceptive paths for infiltrating malware.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. While 2018 showed a slight decline, you can see that the number of records that were exposed increased drastically, likely indicating cybercriminals are becoming more brazen in their attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2023

Adding more embarrassment to last year’s Twitter Data Breach, a new finding on the web has discovered a new database dump exposed on an online hacking forum. It appears to be a big data leak as information related to about 235 million users was found by a cyber intelligence firm named Hudson Rock, based in Israel.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

billion in 2018. Armed with a single link to a First American document, BEC scammers would have an endless supply of very convincing phishing templates to use. As noted in past stories here, these types of data exposures are some of the most common yet preventable. In August 2018, financial industry giant Fiserv Inc.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Meanwhile, more advanced threat actors will utilize IP addresses, packet sniffing, and dark web data brokers to obtain personal details. Another widely used tactic for information gathering is phishing or the engagement and manipulation of another user’s trust. In 2018, George Garofano pleaded guilty to the attack.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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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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 I just mean there will be a shortage of experts–i.e., The cloud will leak.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

Justice Department announces more than 70 indictments and 125 convictions or arrests for phishing, hacking, spamming and other Internet fraud as part of Operation CyberSweep. . Media scrutiny eventually leads the consumer data broker, which has since been purchased by LexisNexis, to reveal another 128,000 people had information compromised.

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