Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Subway UK confirmed the hack of a marketing system that was used to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. Hackers have compromised a marketing system in Subway UK and used it to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Subway UK).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

GoDaddy suffered a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 GoDaddy discloses a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment. The exposure of email addresses presents risk of phishing attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

Which are the most common causes of a Data Breach and how to prevent It? Data breaches are highly damaging and equally embarrassing for businesses and consumers. If you look at Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, you can find some of the most common causes of data breaches.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Distracted by a pandemic, historic social unrest, a general election, fire tornados and murder hornets , the Trump administration seems intent on handing Republicans a prize equal to if not greater than the parade of federal judges appointed over the last 44 months—namely, an undercount in the 2020 decennial population census.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

. “According to information we have received, their apparent goal is to infect websites and servers with malware for phishing campaigns, malware distribution and other malicious activities.” million customers , and March 2020, which exposed data of 28,000 customers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

Magellan Health Inc announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place on April 11, 2020, the company also confirmed that hackers have stolen personal information from one of its corporate servers. ” reads the data breach notice issued by the company. SecurityAffairs – Magellan, hacking).

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Hot for Security

MARCH 26, 2021

Fact: In November 2020, a database containing over 200 million usernames and passwords was leaked in the infamous Cit0day breach. According to researchers, the leak included both new and previously breached login credentials from over 23,600 websites. Was your data exposed in the Cit0day breach? Find out now.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

At the start of this week, word got out that hackers claimed to have seized personal data for as many as 100 million T-Mobile patrons. Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk. Could be phished credentials. It’s too early to assess compliance to data loss regulations. Could be weak application security practices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

US defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) has disclosed a data breach after threat actors hacked their email system. In January 2020, Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) has suffered a ransomware attack , its web servers were infected with Ryuk ransomware. SecurityAffairs – hacking, EWA).

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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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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, disclosed an email hack of its employee email system, which may have exposed the personal information of thousands of patients. Earlier this month, UMass Memorial Health alerted patients who were affected by the hospital data breach. How to Protect Yourself After a Hospital Data Breach.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Here’s a closer look at what typically transpires in the weeks or months before an organization notifies its users about a breached database. TARGETED PHISHING. customers this month.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

Below the list of the top stories of 2020. December 21 – SUPERNOVA, a backdoor found while investigating SolarWinds hack. April 27 – Hacking Microsoft Teams accounts with a GIF image. Phishing attacks impersonating notifications from Microsoft Teams targeted as many as 50,000 Teams users to steal Office365 logins.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked Abdali Hospital, a multi-specialty hospital located in Jordan. pic.twitter.com/6uHMDcNhTC — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) December 26, 2023 The group published images of stolen documents as proof of the hack. Open your wallets and be ready to buy exclusive data.

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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 ). SecurityAffairs – hacking, Virgin Media).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2020

In this post, I decided to share the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from April 05 to April 11, 2020. April 09 – Phishers prefer Tesla, top 3 malware strains in COVID19 phishing campaigns. April 09 – Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) is hacking crooks behind COVID19-themed attacks.

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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 Data breaches continue to be a scourge of enterprises. million – was down 20 percent. million to $4.24

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers admitted to have suffered a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers disclosed a a data breach that might have impacted approximately 3.4 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million users.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked King Edward VII’s Hospital in London. The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked King Edward VII’s Hospital in London and added it to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. King Edward VII’s Hospital in London has been breached by Rhysida Ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2022

This compromise, posted to a hacking forum, is said to include both the database and around 460 MB of compressed source code from Neopets.com. Data claimed to have been taken includes: Usernames Names Email address Date of birth Zip code Date of Birth Gender Country Registration email. Neopets also addressed this.

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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

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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. Multiple security firms soon assigned the hacking group the nickname “ Scattered Spider.” 9, 2024, U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Google revealed that Gmail users from the United States are the most targeted by email-based phishing and malware. billion email-based phishing and malware attacks against Gmail users to determine what are factors influence the risk of attack. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Gmail). ” reads the study published by Google.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Pierluigi Paganini. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 289 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Data Breach Costs: The average global cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 With cyber crimes on the rise and attacks like phishing and ransomware becoming more common, we need to stay alert.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

million customers Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely 1.9 SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With the 2020 presidential election approaching, cybersecurity deserves to be a core issue for candidates. Each factor we investigated falls into one of four buckets: the candidate’s cybersecurity platform, their cybersecurity actions, their privacy and data practices, and email security factors. It remained a part of our criteria.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. Nikulin used data stolen from Linkedin to launch spear-phishing attacks against employees at other companies, including Dropbox. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 31, 2020

Even the title of SecureWorld's first story about the incident had questions: "Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack?". How was Twitter hacked? Spear phishing: what security experts are saying. We all know how damaging a spear phishing attack can be.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

At times it can seem like a war of attrition, which brings us to the first series of predictions for 2020: CISOs will get worse at their jobs. In 2020 there will be somewhere around 20 billion IoT devices in use around the world. It’s good news for 2020 babies. . 2020 promises to be an interesting ride.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

FBI and CISA published a new advisory on AvosLocker ransomware More than 17,000 WordPress websites infected with the Balada Injector in September Ransomlooker, a new tool to track and analyze ransomware groups’ activities Apple releases iOS 16 update to fix CVE-2023-42824 on older devices Phishing, the campaigns that are targeting Italy A new (..)

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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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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 13, 2021

Awareness and interest in cybersecurity is up Thanks to media attention due to hacks and data breaches plus campaigns and initiatives run by governments, tech giants, system integrators, cybersecurity consultancies and product vendors, more people than ever are interested in cybersecurity. Here’s my answer. #1.

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