eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

healthcare providers and U.K.-based The leak revealed how Black Basta laundered these payments, often using compromised bank accounts and cryptocurrency mixers to cover their tracks. Adding to their woes, reports suggest some operators have scammed victims by taking ransom payments but failing to deliver working decryption tools.

Ransomware

Responsible Cyber

MARCH 2, 2025

Without proper oversight, things can spiral out of controlthink unused accounts, forgotten renewals, or unauthorized access. If the account is still active, its a potential entry point for cybercriminals. The fewer dormant accounts you have, the smaller your attack surface. Solution : Regularly audit your subscriptions.

Cybersecurity

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

CISA adds Craft CMS and Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Atlassian fixed critical flaws in Confluence and Crowd Salt Typhoon used custom malware JumbledPath to spy U.S.

Scams

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Notably, 2024 was unprecedentedly precarious with the second largest in history National Public Data breach and the biggest healthcare data breach to date with the massive attack on Change Healthcare. Religious and cultural taboos should be taken into account to prevent alienation of your audiences in the new market.

Marketing

BH Consulting

JUNE 30, 2025

It highlighted how these criminals “go after everything from login credentials to credit card numbers, medical records, and social media accounts”. This data helps them access accounts, impersonate users, or sell that access to others. Access to an account is often just the beginning, it added.

Scams

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to Imperva’s State of API Security in 2024 report, APIs—the rules allowing software applications to communicate with each other—now account for a staggering 71% of internet traffic. Businesses, particularly those in financial services, healthcare, and retail sectors, suffer from operational disruptions and financial penalties.

DDOS

SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2025

These comforts keep the dark economy humming even as sites vanish in exit scams or police takedowns. Insider threats round out the trifecta, which some reports indicate account for nearly 60% of data breaches , whether it is a disgruntled employee selling exports or an over-privileged contractor leaving an S3 bucket public.

Phishing

Trend Micro

JUNE 26, 2025

Completion rates can account for employees’ knowledge. Track employee behaviour change based on metrics like the overall risk of account compromise and the number of accounts with weak authentication. To drive engagement, you can offer employees incentives (e.g., gift cards) and add gamification strategies (e.g.,

Security Awareness

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Expect to see AI-enabled phishing campaigns, deepfake scams, and automated attacks grow in complexity. Ransomware Targets Critical Infrastructure: Ransomware attacks will increasingly focus on critical infrastructure, including healthcare, utilities, and transportation, leading to potentially catastrophic consequences.

Cybersecurity

Trend Micro

JUNE 10, 2025

Each team can independently sign off on an image, ensuring accountability and reducing deployment risk. Enable support for multi-key verification Enable multiple signature validations per image to satisfy the needs of development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) teams.

Cyber Risk

Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2025

From hyper-realistic deepfakes to advanced vishing scams, AI-generated threats have quickly raised the stakes for enterprise security.With AI fundamentally changing both how businesses operate and how cybercriminals attack, organizations must maintain a current and comprehensive understanding of the enterprise AI landscape.

Social Engineering

Trend Micro

JULY 2, 2025

More generally, organisations should consider updating security strategy to account for the elevated threat from AI-powered attacks. Continuously monitoring, assessing, and updating AI models to check for and remediate vulnerabilities, and improve accuracy, performance and reliability.

Cyber Risk

Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2024

healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. In the third week of February, a cyber intrusion at Change Healthcare began shutting down important healthcare services as company systems were taken offline. There are indications that U.S.

Healthcare

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

The volume of online scams relating to healthcare emanating from inexpensive TLDs is spiking—accounting for as much as 60% of daily domain registrations. The post Netcraft Report Surfaces Spike in Online Healthcare Product Scams appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Healthcare

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. All lines of business except for: – Healthcare. billion in 2020. – Canada.

Ransomware

Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2024

Following the February 21 attack on Change Healthcare , scores of people in the US have been living with the brutal, real-world effects of ransomware. They are always damaging and they always cause pain, but when they hit the healthcare system, the consequences—particularly the risk to life—are often more immediately obvious and shocking.

Healthcare

Malwarebytes

JUNE 24, 2024

For the first time since news broke about a ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the company has released details about the data stolen during the attack. First, a quick refresher: On February 21, 2024, Change Healthcare experienced serious system outages due to a cyberattack. Take your time. Consider not storing your card details.

Healthcare

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

When COVID-19 cases first began spiking in several countries, cybercriminals preyed upon people’s fears mercilessly, with an avalanche of coronavirus phishing emails and scams. And as people adapted to their “new normal,” scammers exploited their isolation with a resurgence in tech support scams.

Malware

Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

On the 14th of May, the Health Service Executive (HSE) , Ireland’s publicly funded healthcare system, fell victim to a Conti ransomware attack, forcing the organization to shut down more than 80,000 affected endpoints and plunging them back to the age of pen and paper. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts.

Healthcare

Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

These restrictions have created a burgeoning underground market for reshipping scams, which rely on willing or unwitting residents in the United States and Europe — derisively referred to as “ reshipping mules ” — to receive and relay high-dollar stolen goods to crooks living in the embargoed areas.

Cybercrime

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

Over the course of a month, the crooks, posing as a known vendor, used faked email messages to entice school district personnel to make three bank transfers into accounts controlled by the criminals. These scams rely on the failure of a subordinate employee to recognize a cleverly spoofed email directive. The total stolen: $2.3

Scams

Malwarebytes

MARCH 4, 2024

Our business solutions remove all remnants of ransomware and prevent you from getting reinfected.

Identity Theft

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warns of attacks against IT help desks across the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reported that threat actors are carrying out attacks against IT help desks across the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. bank accounts.”

Social Engineering

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

Ryan Dellone , a healthcare worker in Fresno, Calif., Ryan Dellone , a healthcare worker in Fresno, Calif., Dellone says the crooks then used his phone number to break into his account at Coinbase and siphon roughly $100,000 worth of cryptocurrencies. asserts that thieves stole his bitcoin on Dec. For example, in 2013 the U.S.

Cryptocurrency

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Once payments are collected from the victims, they make previously created resources vanish and set up the next new campaign – this is why investigators named the group “Digital Smoke” According to the latest report by FTC released last week called “The Top Scams of 2022” people reported losing $8.8

Scams

Cisco Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The spam folder: that dark and disregarded corner of every email account, full of too-good-to-be-true offers, unexpected shipments, and supposedly free giveaways. We’ve investigated this folder once before, showcasing a variety of scams. This level of activity makes it all the more important to be aware of these scams.

Scams

Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

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Scams

SecureWorld News

JULY 19, 2023

As the job market faces a wave of layoffs, threat actors have seized the opportunity to exploit vulnerable job hunters with employment scams. According to research and analysis by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint , employment scams have escalated, targeting university students in North America.

Scams

Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2021

Other cybersecurity news: Eight arrests in Royal Mail text scam investigation. In our podcast Lock and Code we shone a light on dark patterns with Carey Parker. Source: BBC News) Canada Post hit by data breach after supplier ransomware attack.

VPN

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

Related: Coronavirus scams leverage email As we get deeper into dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, the need for authorities and experts to communicate reliably and effectively with each other, as well as to the general public, is vital. I agree wholeheartedly with Levin on this, as I imagine most folks would.

Social Engineering

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

IoT-enabled scams and hacks quickly ramped up to a high level – and can be expected to accelerate through 2021 and beyond. Concern for IoT-assisted types of attack is especially high in the healthcare sector, where you have a lot of HIPAA-protected conversations being picked up by home devices.” This shift is just getting started.

IoT

Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Let’s Talk About COVID-19 Scams. Learn how to recognize and avoid COVID-19 scams. #8. You’re probably annoyed with everyone telling you to have a long, complex, unique password for every website, device, and account you own. Healthcare Company UHS a Victim of Major Cyber Attack. How Hackers Steal and Use Your Passwords.

DDOS

Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2019

In October 2017, the city of Fort Worth, Texas became the target of a phishing scam. Their accounts payable department received an email that appeared to be from Imperial Construction, a company that was doing business with the city at the time. Fadipe, requested a change of account. However, this wasn’t the case.

Cybersecurity

Malwarebytes

JUNE 10, 2024

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Google will start deleting location history Advance Auto Parts customer data posted for sale Husband stalked ex-wife with seven AirTags, indictment says Microsoft Recall snapshots can be easily grabbed with TotalRecall tool Financial sextortion scams on the rise Say hello to the fifth generation of Malwarebytes Big name (..)

Scams

Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2022

Over 50 countries sign the “Declaration for the Future of the Internet” Watch out for these 3 small business cybersecurity mistakes.

Small Business

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 24, 2022

According to Advocate Aurora Health, no social security number, financial account, credit card, or debit card information was involved in this incident. Our browser extension blocks tech support scams, hijackers, pop-up ads, trackers, and more to keep users secure and free from online harassment. Stop tracking me.

Healthcare

SecureWorld News

JUNE 2, 2020

have been on the front lines in the fight to protect the safety of citizens: state governments and healthcare. Organizations and agencies that support citizens, like state governments and healthcare. Throughout COVID-19, two major groups in the U.S. Data reveals holes in email fraud response.

Healthcare