Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As we move towards the end of 2022, now is the time to take a look back at the major trends from the last eleven months and identify what might happen from a cyber threat perspective in 2023. This has the double pronged effect of crippling an organization, whilst also resulting in the significant impact that accompanies a data breach.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

First, a little background Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of only eight major categories. 2018) "Causes of Death".

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Our updated research looks at how data breaches happened, what academia published, what the news covered, and what people Googled. The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

FireEye’s report revealed that the incident response division Mandiant observed more than 500 new malware families in 2019. million malware samples per day in 2019 and identified 1,268 malware families. ” Mandiant experts named the China-linked APT41 threat actor as one of the most prolific cyber threat group.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 14, 2022

Since we began holistically tracking cybersecurity trends 15 years ago with our annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), we've seen many shifting motivations and strategies behind the bad actors seeking to cause immense harm. One thing has remained consistent: the threat of cyberattacks is real and a daily global onslaught.

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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. In SiteLock’s 2019 Website Security Report , we analyzed 6 million websites in our sample data to determine the most prevalent cyber threats websites face today. The Principle of Least Privilege.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The 2023 update to our research on the perception of cybersecurity incident and data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk of a cybersecurity incident or data breach instead of what feels right. Source: Verizon DBIR [1] Patterns over time in cybersecurity data breaches.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But Will Thomas , a cyber threat intelligence researcher at Equinix, found an Internet address in the leaked data that corresponds to a domain flagged in a 2019 Citizen Lab report about one-click mobile phone exploits that were being used to target groups in Tibet.

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Webroot

AUGUST 6, 2021

The steady stream of cyberattacks seen throughout 2019 turned into a torrent over the last year – ransomware, phishing scams and data breaches are now at an all-time high. Of course, the growing cybersecurity threat isn’t contained to just one country. Tackling Cyber Threats. A Global Challenge.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 5, 2021

The report was produced by SecurityScorecard, the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Cyber Threat Alliance, and private tech companies Diligent and IHS Markit. data breach. Many executives themselves might not fully understand their own risks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Tianfu Cup 2019 Day 1 – Chinese experts hacked Chrome, Edge, Safari, Office365. Crooks use carding bots to check stolen card data ahead of the holiday season. Tianfu Cup 2019 – 11 teams earned a total of 545,000 for their Zero-Day Exploits. Belorussian authorities blocked ProtonMail following a wave of bomb threats.

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SecureBlitz

MARCH 5, 2021

As of 2019, Cyberattacks have set off over 7,000 breaches. The median cost of a data breach is now $3,92. This post will show you what Security Operations Center is all about and why it matters to your company and brand. The combined force of this strategically placed invasion has exposed over 15.1 billion records.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The answer became clear fairly quickly: data breaches. We immediately knew that if we could create a solution that would disrupt data breach culture it would make a major impact on CISOs and data protection teams – and ultimately companies’ success overall. Diving into Data Breach Culture.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The 2023 update to our research on the perception of cybersecurity incident and data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk of a cybersecurity incident or data breach instead of what feels right. Source: Verizon DBIR [1] Patterns over time in cybersecurity data breaches.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In 2019, TSYS was acquired by financial services firm Global Payments Inc. On December 8, the cybercriminal gang responsible for deploying the Conti ransomware strain (also known as “ Ryuk “) published more than 10 gigabytes of data that it claimed to have removed from TSYS’s networks. . NYSE:GPN ].

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Despite this impressive number, the industry still has the potential to grow even further in order to address various cyber threats. The facts below represent key cyber threats and their impact in 2020. The average cost of a data breach is $3.86 The average cost of a data breach is $3.86

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 17, 2023

As the world moves increasingly online, risk management professionals and business owners must continue to invest in the prevention of cyber threats. 1. How poor cyber policies can cost businesses money A data breach can result in a variety of costs, such as fines, lawsuits, and extra staff wages.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 5, 2021

Security researchers generally believe Facebook when the social media giant says the data breach reported over the weekend was the same one addressed in 2019. Facebook maintains that “this is old data that was previously reported on in 2019.”. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images).

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The breach is the second major cybersecurity incident to hit MGM Resorts in recent years. In 2019, the company was the victim of a data breach that exposed the personal information of about 142 million guests. The FBI is investigating the breach.

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Adam Levin

JULY 3, 2019

While I am not in a position to say exactly why this was the case, last year’s average per record cost, according to IBM’s “2018 Cost of Data Breach Study” was $157, with the average total cost to a company coming in at $4.24 ” The data breach originated from a subcontractor network.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

Organizations with weak cybersecurity have been severely punished with cyber-attacks, data breaches, and huge losses in the past. According to Varonis and RiskBased, over 4 billion records were illegally accessed through data breaches in 2019. Multiple security protocols.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 9, 2022

Having recently been awarded a spot on G2’s 2022 Best Security Products list, CrowdSec acts as a “Waze-like” open-source collaborative IPS (intrusion prevention system), in which its users share information to protect each other from threats. CrowdSec’s philosophy is that giant threats demand an army of responders.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 27, 2022

The escalating risk of cyber threat. The digitalization of government services and processes make the growing incidence of cyber-attacks a clear and present danger for agencies. The European Union's Cybersecurity Act passed in 2019 gives ENISA, the EU Agency for Network and Information Security, a permanent mandate.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

That said, it’s also clear that all too many SMBs remain ill equipped to assess evolving cyber threats, much less effectively mitigate them. According to the Cyberthreat Index, 45 percent of all SMBs and 56% of large SMBs believe they are vulnerable to “imminent” threats of cybersecurity attacks.

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Cisco Security

JULY 12, 2021

The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) identifies email and its attachments as the number one threat vector. The perimeter of today’s computing enterprise is people, as opposed to systems and networks, and the sophisticated attacks that are being conducted by hostile threat actors are targeted at people.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2019

We constantly monitor our entire infrastructure at heightened level of alertness to deal with any potential cyber threat.” Another curious, if only coincidental, development: On April 4, 2019, the government of India sold “enemy” shares in Wipro worth approximately $166 million. “A total of 44.4

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2019

Originally published in TEISS on May 1, 2019. In just the past few years (and hundreds of high-profile breaches and £Trillions of economic damage later), cyber threats became impossible for the boardroom to ignore. How things have changed. This is a significant change. Encryption is a board’s best friend.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

Even when banking organizations are upgrading security posture to safeguard sensitive financial information, hackers can steal the data intelligently by tying known vulnerabilities together, and making it turn out to be a potential attack. The stolen data is used both to commit fraud directly and indirectly. Data security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That ’ s an increase of 25% since 2019 when the average number of passwords was just 70-80. In its 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), for instance, Verizon Enterprise revealed that brute-force attacks and the use of lost or stolen credentials factored into 80% of the hacking-related breaches it analyzed.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The year closed out with Starwood Properties, parent of the Marriott hotel chain, disclosing it lost personal data for 500 million patrons in a breach that lasted some four years. Disclosures of huge data breaches no longer shock the public. Conjuring a full summary of cyber exposures would be daunting.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Such type of data is likely to have been compromised online — with the use of phishing, malware, or JS-sniffers — while in the previous case, we dealt with card dumps (the information contained in the card magnetic stripe), which can be stolen through the compromise of offline POS terminals, for example. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 5, 2021

Jones Day executives in 2019 open the trading day during a Bell Ceremony to celebrate Jones Day’s 30 years of presence in Brussels. A ransomware attack on software company Accellion led to the compromise and eventual leak of confidential client data from the law firm. billion invested in legal technologies in 2019, compared to $1.5

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

cybersecurity M&A deals hit 151 in the first three quarters of 2021, compared to 80, 88 and 94 in 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively, according to data from 451 Research. “ The Role of Cybersecurity in M&A – Journal of Cyber Policy. In fact, the volume of U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Still, insider threats are always possible. billion in losses in 2019. In light of this threat and others like it, here’s how companies can better secure their user authentication protocols. Almost one-third of global businesses have suffered a data breach due to an unpatched vulnerability.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Security breaches have increased by 67% in the last five years , per the WEF. billion to cybercriminals in 2019, according to the FBI. Data breaches cost an average of $3.9 worldwide in 2019, according to a Ponemon Institute survey. Businesses and consumers in the U.S. lost more than $3.5

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 23, 2021

The Regulation is one of several legal provisions implementing the Law Decree of 21 September 2019, no. With regard to Italy, as anticipated, the Regulation represents only one of six law provisions required to implement the measures introduced by the Law Decree of 21 September 2019, No. Identification of security measures.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The frequency and severity of supply chain attacks have increased significantly in recent years, plaguing even the most robust cybersecurity programs as evidenced by the following statistics.

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