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Top Cyber Attacker Techniques, August–October 2024

Digital Shadows

Phishing often serves as the gateway to cyber attacks, opening the door to impactful follow-on activity like malware and ransomware deployment or access to internal networks, ultimately causing substantial financial losses. For organizations, this can result in account compromise, data loss, data breaches, and operational disruption.

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Qilin ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the Lee Enterprises attack

Security Affairs

After the cyber attack, many sites displayed maintenance notices. “On February 3, 2025, Lee Enterprises, Inc. (“Lee” or the “Company”) experienced a systems outage caused by a cybersecurity attack. The company reported to the SEC that a Feb.

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The Cybersecurity Challenge in Mergers and Acquisitions

Digital Shadows

One data-leak post involved a US retailer that was recently acquired by another, sharing dates of birth, email addresses, credit card data, and IP addresses for free (see Figure 1). Without proper logging and visibility, incidents like unauthorized access, code injection, or data breaches may go undetected.

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Security Roundup February 2025

BH Consulting

TechCrunch reported : The dominance of behavioural advertising business models that rely on tracking and profiling web users to monetise their attention has raised the commercial stakes for any reform of EU ePrivacy rules. The privacy advocacy group NOYB filed them, claiming the apps are unlawfully transferring EU citizens data to China.

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Data breach news trending on Google Search Engine

CyberSecurity Insiders

Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) has hit the news headlines for becoming a victim of a cyber attack that led to data breach of over 57,900 claimant accounts seeking unemployment benefits. The post Data breach news trending on Google Search Engine appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer suffers a data breach

Security Affairs

Reddy’s, the Indian contractor for Russia’s “Sputinik V” COVID-19 vaccine was hit with a cyber-attack that forced the company to close its plants. Indian COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories was hit with a cyber attack that forced it to shut down its plants in Brazil, India, Russia, the U.K.,

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Healthcare giant Magellan Health discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

” reads the data breach notice issued by the company. “On April 11, 2020, Magellan discovered it was targeted by a ransomware attack. ” The company is not aware of any misuse of personal information stolen during the attack. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.