Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The group claims to have stolen 5TB of patients’ and employee’s information, backups, PII documents, and more. The gang also published a sample as proof of the stolen data.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

During its continuous darkweb and deepweb monitoring, the Cyble Research Team came across the post of Nefilim ransomware operators in which the crew claimed to have breached The Dussmann Group and have exfiltrated sensitive data. The first archive of files allegedly stolen by the company is around 15.7

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Below a snapshot of the leak post published by the Maze Ransomware Operators: Experts from Cyble analyzed the leaked data, an archive containing around 1.64 GB of files that correspond to the 5% of the overall stolen data. Maze ransomware operators have released documents containing data of Hoa Sen Group employees (i.e.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In August, Gunnebo said it had successfully thwarted a ransomware attack, but this week it emerged that the intruders stole and published online tens of thousands of sensitive documents — including schematics of client bank vaults and surveillance systems. What’s more, Syrén seemed to downplay the severity of the exposure.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2023

. “Because of low security, more than 2TB of sensitive data related to weapons production was stolen from Solar Industries India Limited.” “The data leakage affected all products and classified documents of the company. ” reads the message published on the leak site.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Or as is often the case with security, what costs can we skip and still escape big penalties later? Unfortunately for those of us indulging in wishful thinking, the likelihood and costs of data breaches continue to increase. The Ponemon Institute estimates that data breach costs rose to an average cost of $4.24

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

. “Based on the names of the archives, this data includes city budget financials, various accounting documents, document scans, and an archive of documents belonging to the City Manager.” The gang also claims to have erased the City’s local backups and to have stolen over 200 GB of files.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2019

Of those, one contained a large collection of internal business documents. The total size is uncertain, but the researcher downloaded a sample of about a terabyte in size, including 750 gigabytes of compressed email backups.” ” The buckets contained a vast amount of data, the expert downloaded a terabyte for analysis. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Bleeping Computer analyzed the leaked data and reported that most of the published data are backups for various systems. Most recent documents in the leaked data are dated back to October 22. At this time, it’s unclear how threat actors have breached the company.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Bug bounty hacker earned $5,000 reporting a Stored XSS flaw in iCloud.com Experts warn of threat actors abusing Google Alerts to deliver unwanted programs FBI warns of the consequences of telephony denial-of-service (TDoS) attacks An attacker was able to siphon audio feeds from multiple Clubhouse rooms Georgetown County has yet to recover from a sophisticated (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2021

The leak site shows a folder named W1 that contains a collection of PDF documents allegedly stolen from the company. It is not clear how the threat actors breached the company and when the security breach took place.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The group claimed to have stolen 5TB of patients’ and employee’s information, backups, PII documents, and more. The gang also published a sample as proof of the stolen data. In September, the LockBit ransomware group breached two hospitals , the Carthage Area Hospital and the Clayton-Hepburn Medical Center in New York.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2022

. “During the study period, ransomware attacks exposed larger quantities of personal health information and grew more likely to affect large organizations with multiple facilities.” The exposure of personal health information increased more than 11-fold, from roughly 1.3 million in 2016 to close to 16.5 million in 2021.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2021

The list of exposed PII includes: Travel Records [Two Documents: 102,000+ Records] HR Nationality Demographics [Two Documents: 7,000+ Records] Generalized Employee Records [One document: 1,000+ Records] Project and Funding Source Records [One Document: 4,000+ Records] Evaluation Reports [One Document: 283 Projects].

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2022

” The news of the attack was also confirmed by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the company had reported an IT security incident on Saturday night. Not because you got caught, not that, you’ve been in the systems continuously and non-stop for almost two weeks, loading the data.

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Spinone

JULY 15, 2020

Achieving this compliance means that your company has well-established measures of data protection. Undoubtedly, creating a secure system is good for your business reputation. More than that, it is more cost-effective than facing the negative impact of a data breach. How Can We Help to Protect Your Data?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2023

The information inside the database suggested that trustanduse.com had an active partnership with a Greek supermarket chain called Galaxias as it included its suppliers, information about promotions, receipts, and special access to its website for supermarket employees.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

Upon discovery, Prominence reset all user credentials and secured the impacted environment, launching an investigation and data restoration processes from its backup systems. Prominence has been actively monitoring online forums for any signs the data has been misused. To date, no instances have been found.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2023

One of the most important responsibilities of security professionals is to avoid data breaches. At the same time, the IBM report reveals that it takes an average of 277 days to detect and contain a data breach. Analysts from Gartner introduced a specific concept known as Data-Centric Audit and Protection ( DCAP ).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Here are 8 cyber security best practices you can begin to implement today to keep your business data secure. . It’s easier to prevent malicious attacks and data breaches than recover from them. A single mistake from an improperly trained employee can ruin the entire security system. Educate Your Employees.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Common threats include misconfigurations, cross-site scripting attacks, and data breaches. Determine which threats and vulnerabilities affect your firm and its SaaS apps.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2022

Breaching education. Around 490,000 students and 56,000 employees found their data breached by those responsible for the ransomware. The data accessed by criminals, stretching from 2015 to 2019, included a variety of information potentially including: Name School CPS email Employee ID number Battelle for Kids username.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

He explained that entities frequently consider the security of medical devices as an issue that exists – but primarily for other providers and that it’s less likely to occur within their environment. As the former chief information security officer of Boston Medical Center, Sehgal has seen a shift in the focus hospitals place on security.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Organizations must practice incident response if they want to stop data breaches and cyberattacks. Social engineering attacks: These involve manipulating individuals to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems. They assist in documenting, tracking, and orchestrating incident response activities.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 13, 2022

DLP technology provides a mechanism to help protect against sensitive data loss—and thus could also be something of a mitigating factor when dealing with compliance agencies in the wake of a data breach. More workers in more locations means more sensitive data in more locations – and more potential points of data leakage.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

“The security risks of remote working have been well documented. Away from the office, employees are now far more likely to practice poor cyber hygiene, for example connecting to unsafe networks, transferring work data to personnel devices, or sharing unencrypted files. Terry Storrar, Managing Director, Leaseweb UK.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Vamosi: Whenever there’s a data breach or an attack, I look at how long the bad actor was active on the compromised network. JANUSZKIEWICZ: Absolutely, in many different ways, of course, but one of the ways I was describing was through extracting the certificate, which we call actually a backup private key.

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