Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

It was established in 2019 to diversify Saudi Arabia’s economy away from oil and gas. file was indexed by IoT search engines was in March 2022, meaning that the data was exposed for at least 15 months. Meanwhile, the now-closed MIM’s env. MIM is a government body responsible for industry and mineral resources operations.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2021

Unless you keep your social media at a pole’s distance, you have probably heard that an absolutely enormous dataset—containing over 500 million phone numbers—has been made public. Some reports say the data was scraped in 2019, others talk about early 2020. If you are, or were, a Facebook user this may very well concern you.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Target the human, swipe the cash: Verizon DBIR 2023 highlights crime trends Manage the human risk and mind your money: those are two key takeaways from Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. And 95 per cent of breaches are financially motivated, the report found. When is a cybersecurity incident a GDPR data breach?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

This sort of information would no doubt be of interest to scammers seeking to conduct social engineering attacks against Sprint employees as way to perpetrate other types of fraud, including unauthorized SIM swaps or in gleaning more account information from targeted customers.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

It’s one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity threats today, growing a staggering 300% since 2019 and leading to consumer losses of $3.5 With more than 15 billion login credentials available on the dark web because of data breaches, millions of online accounts remain at risk of unauthorized access. Selling Stolen Data.

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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. billion in BEC scam-related losses the year before.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2021

You can check if your personal information is included in the Facebook data leak by querying the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. The availability of the data was first reported by Alon Gal, CTO of cyber intelligence firm Hudson Rock. — Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) April 3, 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In 2019, we’ve seen a surge in domain name service (DNS) hijacking attempts and have relayed warnings from the U.S. As a result, cyber criminals and state-sponsored actors are capitalizing on these vulnerabilities to launch social engineering attacks in an attempt to hijack an organization’s entire web presence.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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. First, a little background It’s been a little over a year since we first shared our research on the data breach perception problem.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

They could start sending out a fake email marketing campaign to Uber clients, potentially using a list from the 57 million user data breach in 2017. Knowing that this can be done by anyone opens multiple phishing opportunities for the would-be scammer. Suffice to say, there is a lot of scamming potential here.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

From direct assaults on passwords via brute force attacks and password spraying to email phishing, ransomware and social engineering campaigns that act as precursors to credential stuffing attacks, adversaries are well aware that the path of least resistance almost always involves the compromising of a password.

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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? Most of the CSV files contain user records for what we assume to be target demographics for either digital or physical marketing materials.

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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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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.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Easier Data Recovery Cloud storage makes data recovery easier in the event of an accident, deletion, or overwrite. According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. Provide ongoing training for individuals involved in setup and maintenance.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 8, 2021

This must also be noted that the size of the cybersecurity market in 2019 was $2.99 The severity of the security situation can be assessed from a fact reported by Cybint, a leading international cybersecurity educator, stating that as much as 62% of businesses faced phishing and social engineering attacks in the year 2018. .

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This new model of hyper-distributed data creates a much broader attack surface than existed before. In addition, telemedicine has generated a larger pool for potential phishing scams as well as other socially-engineered, and technically based, attacks (e.g., As more data migrates to the cloud, security becomes more complex.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

BEC or Email Account Compromise (EAC) was known as the $26 billion scam in 2019. Exploitation and Actions on the Objective – Typically, the exploited vulnerability is a human, someone who can be tricked through social engineering rather than malware. You even have a Ransomware Incident Response Plan.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

Last year, Verizon reported that 71% of breaches were financially motivated, 25% came from espionage, and 21% were caused by human error. Furthermore, from 2019–2023E, approximately USD 5.2 IBM found that the average time to identify a breach in 2019 was 206 days. Human error causes many data breaches.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Data from the Brazilian Federation of Banks registered a considerable increase in crime (such as explosions at bank branches to steal money) and cybercrime (increased phishing and social-engineering attacks) against banking customers and banking infrastructure. Definitely yes. Forecasts for 2022.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2019

“In June 2019, ThreatFabric analysts found a new Android malware, dubbed “Cerberus”, being rented out on underground forums. Cerberus malware leverages social engineering to trick victims into installing it on victims’ devices. ” reads the analysis published by Threat Fabric.”They

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

” ― Stephane Nappo The amount of compromised data in August 2019 composed 114,686,290 breached records. Your photo gallery or credit card information could be a part of this data, as well as your company’s G Suite files that the whole department has been working on for months.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion. One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering. Today, if you examine any high-profile data breach, you’re likely to find memory-hacking techniques utilized at multiple key stages of the attack.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

User data appears to have been scraped in 2019 by malicious actors exploiting a vulnerability in the platform. “This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. No data is old data. The Ashley Madison data breach is a good example. However, users shouldn’t bet on it.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 10, 2022

So, your business has just suffered a data breach and it’s time to dig deep in your pockets to pay all the resulting expenses. Indeed, with liability limits ranging from $1 million to $5 million or more, cyber insurance policies can cover a good chunk of the damage caused by a data breach. How is cyber insurance priced?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Coveware reported earlier this year the average downtime for ransomware victims jumped from 15 days in 2019 to 21 days in 2020. Successful ransomware attacks additionally constitute a data breach that can push organizations into violating their governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) obligations. million within the last year.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. The scam is frequently carried out when a criminal compromises legitimate business e-mail accounts through social engineering or computer intrusion techniques. Source: FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report. BEC is the costliest crime for businesses.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

Human error still causes the overwhelming majority of cybersecurity breaches. Researchers from Stanford University found that approximately 88% of all data breaches are caused by an employee mistake. On 14th August 2019, the auto parts supplier was tricked into making a large fund transfer into the hackers’ bank account.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2023

Twitter released a statement indicating that this attack was the result of employees with internal access falling victim to social engineering that allowed the bad actors to take advantage of their insider privilege. The affected accounts included Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Apple, and Uber.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

In a direct message exchange on OGUsers from November 2019, lol is asked for help from another OGUser member whose Twitter account had been suspended for abuse. On eight of the compromised accounts, Twitter said, the attackers managed to download the account history using the Your Twitter Data tool.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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