Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

The ransomware attack that hit the systems of Nissan Oceania in December 2023 impacted roughly 100,000 individuals. Nissan Oceania, the regional division of the multinational carmaker, announced in December 2023 that it had suffered a cyber attack and launched an investigation into the incident.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2021

Microsoft revealed on Friday that Russia-linked SolarWinds hackers, tracked as Nobelium or APT29 , have conducted news cyber attacks against other organizations. Threat actors carried out brute-force and password spraying attacks in an attempt to gain access to Microsoft customer accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Some 11,800 computer software companies, 10,000 IT services vendors, 5,500 health care organizations and 3,200 financial services firms continue to maintain on-premises Exchange email servers, according to this report from Enlyft. At the moment, ransomware attacks are front and center. Power source fails.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The company pointed out that exposed files did not contain passwords that could be used to access financial accounts.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 5, 2023

APIs abused in cyber attacks But APIs can also facilitate cyber attacks and the theft of data. In 2022, insecure and leaky APIs were the common theme behind a number of major cyber incidents, including the leak of data on more than 5 million Twitter account holders as well as other incidents.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

accounts and other important data were targeted, Yahoo! Cyber attacks like the one that crippled Yahoo! s external site were not recently reissued, allowing cyber attackers to have ongoing access to encrypted communications. Download the Venafi as a Service Data Sheet and Try a FREE 30 Day Trial. .

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NetSpi Executives

MAY 30, 2024

Additional examples include Cyber Operational Resilience Intelligence-led Exercises (CORIE) in Australia, and intelligence-led Cyber Attack Simulation Testing (iCAST) in Hong Kong. Do all financial services businesses fall under the remit of DORA? What is DORA? What does it cover and what does it aim to achieve?

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Coalition, a cyber insurance company, recently released a report detailing the categories of cyber attacks as well as the cause behind the attacks for the first half of 2020. The number one type of cyber incident so far this year is ransomware. The company says that ransomware accounted for 41% of cyber claims.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A mid-sized financial institution reported its online banking platform received a "constant barrage" of login attempts using a variety of credential pairs, indicating that the attack was using bots. And this is just one recent example of this type of cyber attack. Detecting credential stuffing attacks.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

City of Philadelphia: Municipalities are favorite targets of hackers looking to take down systems and make it tough on cities and the people they serve through a myriad of services and programs. Also, on August 22, 2023, we became aware that the at-issue email accounts include email accounts that may contain protected health information."

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

According to the VA's public Notice of Compromised Personal Information, this cyber attack targeted one of the VA's online applications. And the purpose of the attack was to re-direct and steal money that was meant to pay for veteran care at the VA. What do we know about the VA data breach against veterans?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. ” reported Motherboard that first reported the attacks. “So-called SS7 attacks against banks are, although still relatively rare, much more prevalent than previously reported.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ransomware and cyber-attacks are victimizing businesses large and small across America and are a direct threat to our economy. Treasury believed only a small portion of the cyberattacks impacted the economy, they were also concerned with how the attacks weaponize technology and impact life. Will these steps by The U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

An important data protection concept for all organizations is zero trust : by limiting access and privileged accounts and walling off your most critical assets with tools like microsegmentation , a network incursion doesn’t have to become a headline-making data breach. Also read: Network Protection: How to Secure a Network 2.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

And yet our pervasive deployment of IoT systems has also vastly expanded the cyber attack surface of business networks, especially in just the past few years. The breach of a CFO’s home smart speaker Through the course of 2020, IoT-enabled attacks have manifested new wrinkles. This has brought us many benefits.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. ” reported Motherboard that first reported the attacks. “So-called SS7 attacks against banks are, although still relatively rare, much more prevalent than previously reported.

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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. Today, the biggest mistake most security practitioners make is treating ransomware attacks as any other cyber attack. A recent U.S.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

How to Defend: Empowerment Through Cyber-Threat Intelligence Executive boards and departments face a greater frequency of cyber-attacks and an increased number of vulnerability types across enterprise operations. Place tight controls around the use of all admin rights, including the ability to grant administrative privileges.

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Spinone

MAY 22, 2020

There is arguably not a greater danger to your business than the possibility of a cyber attack that leaves your business-critical data either compromised or destroyed. Operational Areas that Account for Security Spending Operational Area % Response Protection and Prevention 72.40% Detection and response 62.8%

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. As a leading global content delivery network (CDN), Akamai has a birdseye view of what is coursing through cyber space moment-by-moment. Q: The scale of ‘attacks’ in 2020 is astronomical: 6.3

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. It can shut down your business – in the case of healthcare organizations that can be life-threatening for patients – damage your reputation with customers and employees, and invite further attacks as cybercriminals view your organization as an easy mark.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Cyber attacks and breaches continue to rise with no end in sight. With this increased spending the attacks continue at an exponential rate. According to Check Point by mid-year cyber attacks have risen 42% globally. During 2022 over 65% of organizations expected security budgets to expand.

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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.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 31, 2021

Organizations around the world must fulfill an increasing number of regulatory requirements including NIST, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as federal and state data breach laws.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

So, you know, now you had to be one of the privileged millions who can freely create a Peloton account so even though it was authenticated then that was not super helpful I guess. So account balance and, you know, Do you want to transfer that kind of stuff. It simplifies communication. What do you want to try?

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

So, you know, now you had to be one of the privileged millions who can freely create a Peloton account so even though it was authenticated then that was not super helpful I guess. So account balance and, you know, Do you want to transfer that kind of stuff. It simplifies communication. What do you want to try?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Iran telecommunications minister announced that for the second time in a week Iran has foiled a cyber attack against its infrastructure. Iran has foiled a new cyber-attack, the country’s telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azari- Jahromi says. ” reported the BBC. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs –.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2021

Cybersecurity experts at both Microsoft and SecureWorks said that the hacker group – called Nobelium by Microsoft but which also is known as APT29 – accessed the Constant Contact email marketing account used by the U.S. Microsoft officials said the attack targeted 3,000 email accounts at 150 organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Most traditional tools used for investigating cyber attacks cannot assess potential impacts on these environments. The Cado Response platform gives security teams the capability to respond to threat incidents in cloud or container environments rapidly. Confluera focuses on another attractive factor for remote workforces – autonomy.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Significant investment is required to stay one step ahead of cyber-attackers, and ongoing, company-wide cybersecurity training is required for employees in our ‘work from home’ world. “In 2022, I hope to see executives finally view cybersecurity as a wise investment rather than an optional budget line-item.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The US remains a long way behind Europe and other regions in terms of nationwide cyber security regulation, and this will continue to have the knock-on effect of more cyber attacks on US businesses. Media contact Harry Lethaby, Senior Account Executive, +44 (0) 1252 727313, harryl@whiteoaks.co.uk

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 21, 2019

. – namely smart refrigerators, garage doors, home routers and the like – nearly quadrupled for the retail and financial services sectors. These attacks were carried out by cyber criminals leveraging an insidious new attack tool: bulletproof proxies. What were they up to?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Hacktivists hacked an Irish water utility and interrupted the water supply 5Ghoul flaws impact hundreds of 5G devices with Qualcomm, MediaTek chips Norton Healthcare disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack Bypassing major EDRs using Pool Party process injection techniques Founder of Bitzlato exchange has pleaded for unlicensed money transmitting (..)

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