Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

. “AvosLocker is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors. hard drive, storage device, the cloud).

Ransomware

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 24, 2019

If you need a backup processor, please contact us. “Unlike what happened with MyPayrollHR — which harmed consumers directly — the payment service bureaus are the ones potentially getting hurt here.” Cachet sued to recover the money stuck in Pinnacle’s frozen accounts. But on Oct. Credit trans.

Banking

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In a security blog about Octo Tempest Microsoft states: “Octo Tempest monetized their intrusions in 2022 by selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals to steal their cryptocurrency.” Create offsite, offline backups. Don’t get attacked twice.

Social Engineering

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Also read: How to Recover From a Ransomware Attack Best Ransomware Removal Tools Best Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection. Capital markets, insurance, financial services, and banking are now online. The techniques used in digital financial crimes are varied.

Backups

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Let me give you an example from smack bang in the middle of GDPR territory: Deezer, the French streaming media service that went into HIBP early January last year: New breach: Deezer had 229M unique email addresses breached from a 2019 backup and shared online in late 2022. Data included names, IPs, DoBs, genders and customer location.

Data breaches

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

The first news that is trending is associated with financial service provider PayPal. According to the official statement from the company, the leak took place on January 11th,2023 through a tool exploit related to Mailchimp Customer Support and Account Administration.

Cyber Attacks

Spinone

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In traditional on-site backup systems security is mainly a physical concern – ensuring data is backed up in more than one location in case of hardware loss or failure and restricting access to the physical backup media to only trusted employees. In cloud backup, security concerns are different. Amazon S3 guarantees 99.9%

Backups

Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Image Source: AI Generated Recent data breaches have exposed sensitive information from millions of customers across healthcare, financial services, and technology sectors. The compromise exposed sensitive card information, including account numbers, expiration dates, and cardholder names.

Data breaches

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The IBM 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report , for example, highlights the continuous financial burden on retailers, which, coupled with potential reputational damage, emphasizes the dire need for retailers to prioritize and bolster their cybersecurity measures. For retailers, this poses a two-pronged challenge.

Retail

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 15, 2024

High severity patches accounted for the bulk of security patches at 44.6%, followed by medium severity patches at 39.5%. Severity Issues Patched CVEs Critical 35 16 High 149 86 Medium 132 80 Low 18 16 Total 334 198 Analysis This quarter, the Oracle Commerce product family contained the highest number of patches at 100, accounting for 29.9%

Financial Services

The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Furthermore, 50% encountered ransomware and other malware; 29% reported incidents of data getting exposed; 25% had accounts compromised; and 17% dealt with incidents of crypto-jacking. These protocols need to be accounted for. Sophos found that fully 70% of organizations experienced a public cloud security incident in the last year.

Cloud Migration

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With vulnerabilities rooted in unsuspecting users, the task of preventing these attacks means both staff training and a robust email and network security system that includes a strong backup program so you have a recent copy of your data that you can roll back to. Offline Backups. Screenshot example. Ransomware facts.

Ransomware

SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

The most frequent targets of leakware are hospitals, law firms, and financial services organizations. Government Accountability Office (GAO) data, 13 of the 16 agencies involved in the study reported a total cost savings of $291 million from using cloud services. According to the U.S.

Ransomware

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The company says that ransomware accounted for 41% of cyber claims. These industries include consumer businesses, healthcare, and financial services. No-cost and low-cost controls, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and routine out-of-band backups would have eliminated a majority of losses experienced.".

Cyber Insurance

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The gang has scored a series of resonant attacks on oil companies, financial services , government agencies and healthcare providers. The library then added the user to the Special Account registry tree to hide it from the system login screen, an interesting and fairly unconventional persistence technique.

Ransomware

Spinone

JULY 21, 2020

Read our article dedicated to CCPA: CCPA compliance checklist PCI-DSS Payment processors and other financial services providers may need to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). This standard helps to prevent credit card fraud and ensures that financial information is protected. success rate.

Backups

Centraleyes

MAY 23, 2024

Logging and Audit Trail: Establishing systems to track and register user behaviors and creating an audit trail for accountability are essential steps in establishing accountability. Accountability Policies are pointless if they are consistently ignored. That is true whether everyone violates a policy or just one person does.

Government

NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Attempt access to file and SQL servers with privileged accounts. Hunt and destroy or encrypt backups hosted in local and cloud networks as well as virtual machine snapshots. Protect your backup systems. Does backup protect against ransomware? That’s why off-site backups are critically important for recovery.

Ransomware

Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2019

This includes such critical capabilities as backing up mission critical data, controlling data locality of both production and backup data. Security and Data Leak Security and specifically data leak are tremendously concerning for financial institutions. Financial data is perhaps one of the most sensitive types of data.

Banking

Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work. That said, empower your employees with an effective and simple Data Loss Protection solution , allowing Automated backup and restore, deletion control , smooth migration, version control , activity reports, etc.,

Security Awareness

Spinone

MAY 22, 2020

Read also: The Cost of Data Breach: Calculate the ROI of Backup How Much Does Cybersecurity Cost? An example is found in the report “ Pursuing Cybersecurity Maturity at Financial Institutions ” by Deloitte and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

Cybersecurity

Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

In a FLASH publication issued by the FBI in coordination with DHS/CISA, the FBI says it has identified at least 52 organizations across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including organizations in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors.

Ransomware

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Treasury Department report linked nearly $600 million in transactions to ransomware payments in “Suspicious Activity Reports” financial services firms have filed to the U.S. Zero Trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets, user accounts, microservices, or data based solely on their location. A recent U.S.

Ransomware

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Now that some companies have managed to avoid paying ransom by restoring from backup, the gangs have upped their game. The modern bank robber is a brighter individual and typically part of an OC team, or in the case of North Korea and their hacking of financial services firms, very well trained and sophisticated in their approach.

Ransomware

Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

The eight areas are: Application Control Patch Applications Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings User Application Hardening Restrict Administrative Privileges Patch Operating Systems Multi Factor Authentication Daily Backups Each area comes with guidance to improve maturity of the area.

Government

SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2024

What's missing is accountability at each water system. In comparison to other critical infrastructures, such as financial services and energy, the U.S. "From my reading, the EPA's alert is reasonable, although it's also lagging badly as compared to the cyberattackers' capabilities and actions," Boyle said.

Energy and Utilities