Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Recently disclosed data breach impacted several of its brands, including Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple, tsoHost and 123Reg. Recently GoDaddy has disclosed a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

Have you ever wondered why your email address and other information appeared in a data breach impacting a platform you never signed up for? and River City Media data breaches. Who is Verifications.io, and what information was exposed in the data breach? Was your personal data exposed in a data breach?

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

Carnival Corporation – which has been plagued by cyberattacks over the past few years – issued a breach disclosure on Thursday confirming hackers attacked email accounts and gained access to data about its customers and employees. The post Carnival discloses new data breach on email accounts appeared first on SC Media.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2020

Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 900,000 of its customers. Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 900,000 customers (names, home, and email addresses and phone numbers ). million subscribers at December 31, 2019.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 3, 2019

A new phone-based phishing scam that spoofs Apple Inc. It starts with an automated call that display’s Apple’s logo, address and real phone number, warning about a data breach at the company. 2, 2019: What Westby’s iPhone displayed as the scam caller’s identity.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Chinese smartphone vendor OnePlus has suffered a new data breach, according to a company’s notice hackers accessed customers’ order information. OnePlus disclosed a data breach, an “unauthorized party” accessed some customers’ order information, including names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

Indeed, wake up calls brought about by data breaches have stirred others out of their comfort zones into finally adopting 2FA and making it part of their online lives. Illustration of what a MiTM phishing would look like. Source: Kondracki, et al). Source: The Record by Recorded Future).

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 9, 2021

This magnitude reminds of us of the 500 million people that were impacted in the data breach at Marriott. Oddly, Facebook initially dismissed the reports as irrelevant, citing that the data was leaked years ago so it didn’t matter now. What is a data breach?” What is data scraping?” spreadsheet).

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2021

Booking.com, an online travel agency has been fined €475,000 for not reporting the data breach within the stipulated time frame crafted by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The post Dutch company booking.com fined €558,000 for serious data breach appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2021

In a sampling of the player profile data, the WizCase security team found that users could spend as much as $907 on the game via in-app microtransactions in the 10,000-player sample from 2019-2020 our team observed. Though most email clients have methods to block spam and phishing attempts, they are not 100% effective.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2019

Oregon Department of Human Services announced it was a victim of a data breach in January, roughly 645,000 potentially impacted. Oregon Department of Human Services officials confirmed that the organization has suffered a data breach that has exposed personal details and health information of 645,000 clients.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

While Capital One incident is making the headlines, another incident may have severe consequences, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) also suffered a data breach. SecurityAffairs – LAPD, data breach). The post LAPD data breach exposes personal info of thousands of officers appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2024

Cerebral has agreed to an order that will restrict how the company can use or disclose sensitive consumer data, as well as require it to provide consumers with a simple way to cancel services. Protecting yourself from a data breach There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 6, 2021

94% of malware comes via email and 32% of security breaches in 2019 included phishing, according to statistics, and while there has been a big improvement in the way SMEs. The post Tips to Prepare for an Effective Phishing Attack Simulation appeared first on Indusface.

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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. All it takes is one weak password, one click on a phishing email, or one re-used password that has already been compromised, for an attacker to gain unauthorized access to your site. The Principle of Least Privilege.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Rest assured, that long-overdue change will be coming soon in 2019. Below are some of the most-read and commented-on enterprise stories throughout 2018, a year marked by a relentless onslaught of data breaches, data leaks and increasingly sneaky scams. What the Marriott Breach Says About Security.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2019

Paying attention to cybersecurity is more important than ever in 2019. But, they also try to gain people’s credentials through phishing attacks, lock down their systems with ransomware or infiltrate poorly secured connected devices to name but a few possibilities. Security Affairs – 2019 Cybersecurity predictions, cyberattacks).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2022

Twilio hackers also compromised the food delivery firm DoorDash, the attackers had access to company data, including customer and employee info. On-demand food delivery service DoorDash disclosed a data breach, the threat actors behind the Twilio hack gained access to the company’s data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Unfortunately, the nonprofit organization was hacked during the Christmas holiday and the attackers later used its email server to launch a phishing campaign against its donors. link] — Casey Vattimo (@CVattimo) December 27, 2019. “Friends, Boo! As you may have noticed, our email server was temporarily hacked.

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Graham Cluley

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Two men have been charged with hacking into computer networks in the United States, UK, other NATO countries, and Ukraine, on behalf of the Russian government. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

On New Year’s Eve, Seif Elsallamy ( @0x21SAFE on Twitter), a bug bounty hunter and security researcher, pointed out a phish-worthy security flaw he found on Uber’s email system. Knowing that this can be done by anyone opens multiple phishing opportunities for the would-be scammer. The post Careful!

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s safe to say that the volume and magnitude of high-profile data breaches and ransomware attacks that punctuated 2019 really kept the cybersecurity industry on its toes. Data breaches stole numerous headlines this year, including the notable Capital One breach that exposed more than 100 million customers’ accounts.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In other words, cybercriminals succeeded in getting access to a number of 23andMe accounts where users had used the same password on both 23andMe and a website that had suffered a data breach. In 2019, Microsoft’s Alex Weinert wrote that “Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9%

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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. But with cyberattacks at an all-time high, 63% of companies have kept their cybersecurity trainings at the same level that it was at the end of 2019.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach. Every breach is different, so check with the vendor to find out what's happened, and follow any specific advice they offer. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Fact: Zynga, the California-based social game developer, suffered a major data breach in 2019 when a malicious actor stole 218 million records belonging to “Words With Friends” players. If you were a victim of the Zynga data breach, you’ve probably changed the password for your account already.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. Most of the data come from previously known source s, it could expose affected people to scams and phishing campaigns.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Data Breach Statistics Experiencing a data breach leads companies to many undesirable consequences—financial and reputational damages, disruption of business continuity, compliance violations, and others. The average cost of a data breach is $3.86

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2021

According to the media, the cybercriminals compromised the systems at the company, which has access to the police national computer, using a phishing attack. The security breach was disclosed on Sunday by The Mail, while the group is releasing the stolen data on its leak site on the dark web. Dacoll confirmed the data breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Even though many consider spam and phishing outdated techniques, they are still employed by cybercriminals today. In August 2021, a Revere Health employee was hacked through a phishing email attack which exposed approximately 12,000 patient medical records. The data of over 1.2 Recent email-based attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Google rolled out emergency fixes to address actively exploited Chrome zero-day Samsung discloses a second data breach this year The Prynt Stealer malware contains a secret backdoor. users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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Vipre

OCTOBER 25, 2021

We’ve all heard about big companies getting hit by data breaches — Yahoo , Facebook , Marriott International , and more have notoriously fallen victim to large-scale attacks that rocked news headlines. There are a number of reasons that SMBs find themselves at risk for security breaches. Let’s break them down. Endpoints .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

According to the sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders, threat actors, probably funded by Kremlin, hacked the email account of Stewart McDonald via a spear-phishing act. Second is the news related to the leak of sensitive details belonging to over 20 million users created between the time frame of 2011 and 2019.

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