eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Ransomware. Mobile attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Healthcare and Public Health sector with ransomware. businesses, mainly in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector, with ransomware operations. The threat actors obtained the VPN credentials through phishing attacks. US government agencies warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. Phishing complaints were reported over 300,000 times in 2021 to IC3, the only Internet crime to crack 100,000+ complaints. Technological tactics.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2023

Latest email security trends Phishing and spear-phishing attacks: Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where cybercriminals use deceptive emails to trick recipients into divulging sensitive information or downloading malware.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

ForrmBook is capable of key logging and capturing browser or email client passwords, but its developers continue to update the malware to exploit the latest Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVS), such as CVE-2021-40444 Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. physically disconnected) backups of data. Enforce MFA.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The ransomware was involved in attacks aimed at technology and healthcare, defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada. Zeppelin actors request ransom payments in Bitcoin, they range from several thousand dollars to over a million dollars.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

Sadly, coronavirus phishing and ransomware hacks already are in high gear. Social engineering invariably is the first step in cyber attacks ranging from phishing and ransomware to business email compromise ( BEC ) scams and advanced persistent threat ( APT ) hacks. Instead it’s given them more ammunition to wreak havoc.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Over 60 organizations—mainly in healthcare, emergency services, and education industries—have been compromised to date. DoppelPaymer ransomware is typically delivered through phishing or spam emails—and within the emails are attachments or links containing malicious code.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2022

Ransomware has targeted schools, local governments, and, during this pandemic, even hospitals and healthcare providers…An estimated three out of every four victims of ransomware is a small business.” Estimates on the amount of ransoms paid in 2020 run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. ” Senator Chuck Grassley.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Related: High-profile healthcare hacks in 2021. A cyber catastrophe may seem inevitable, but there are basic practices and actionable steps any healthcare organization can take to begin reducing the clear and present risk of being impacted by a cybersecurity event. Educate employees. Develop plans and playbooks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

Once compromised the target network, attackers attempt to exfiltrate the company’s accounts and passwords database. ” Since March 2020, the PYSA ransomware was involved in attacks against US and foreign government entities, educational institutions, private companies, and the healthcare sector. ” continues the alert.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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. Offline Backups. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. The logic of the raid mainly comes down to using unsecured RDP ports or spear-phishing to infiltrate networks and gain a foothold in them.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Authentication guarantees that users are who they say they are, typically through usernames and passwords or multi-factor authentication (MFA). healthcare, finance) that impose strict security standards. Educate users on the value of strong passwords and the dangers of phishing attempts.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

For example, Cloudflare Zero Trust blocks uploads and downloads of encrypted, password-protected files or files larger than 15MB by default because it cannot scan those files. Requiring user-supplied values such as passwords to access content increases the likelihood of successful payload detonation and delivery. pdf files, etc.,

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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Spinone

MARCH 19, 2020

Outside of healthcare, storing data in public cloud environments is another area where homomorphic encryption can pay dividends in terms of cloud computing security and privacy. This means the backup data that SpinOne stores for your business are protected from malicious threat actors who may try to compromise your data stored in backups.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2023

Latest email security trends Phishing and spear-phishing attacks: Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where cybercriminals use deceptive emails to trick recipients into divulging sensitive information or downloading malware.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

terminal services, virtual private networks (VPNs), and remote desktops—often use weak passwords and do not require MFA. Attackers guess the passwords easily, find them in open source code repositories, or collect them via phishing. Protect your backup systems. Does backup protect against ransomware?

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

However, in a healthcare-related incident involving DroxiDat around the same time, Nokoyawa ransomware was delivered, along with several other incidents involving Cobalt Strike sharing the same license ID, staging directories and/or C2. We recently detected a phishing campaign targeting cargo shipping companies that drops LokiBot.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Examples include GDPR in Europe, HIPAA in healthcare, and PCI DSS for payment card data. Centralize secrets and set storage to private: Keep API keys and passwords in a centralized, secure management system. Backup files: Regularly back-up public cloud resources. Prioritize HTTPS: Use HTTPS over HTTP and block unneeded ports.

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SecureList

MAY 8, 2024

From high-profile breaches in healthcare and industrial sectors – compromising huge volumes of sensitive data or halting production entirely – to attacks on small businesses that have become relatively easy targets, ransomware actors are expanding their sphere of influence.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

First spotted in 2019 , Zeppelin ransomware, or Buran V, primarily targeted large tech and healthcare companies in Europe and the United States. While Zeppelin ransomware has nothing to do with Led Zeppelin, it’s a serious threat to tech and healthcare companies. Create backups in different locations. Absolutely nothing.

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Cisco Security

JULY 14, 2021

Indeed ransomware has entered the mainstream as threat actors increasingly focus their attention on critical infrastructure providers that can’t afford any downtime or disruption from a cyber incident – from food and transportation suppliers to energy and healthcare systems. Store backups offline so they cannot be found by cyber intruders.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Your protection, built into Pixel Your digital life and most sensitive information lives on your phone: financial information, passwords, personal data, photos – you name it. Tensor’s built-in security core works with our Titan M2 security chip to keep your personal information, PINs and passwords safe. billion spam messages per month.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. Backups aren’t working. Restoring from backup is certainly preferable to paying the bad guys for the damage they have inflicted. Ransomware today can actually look for backup files along with user data.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Hive also compromised a California healthcare nonprofit later in the month. In attack methods, ransomware authors—while still favoring good old-fashioned social engineering—have started backing away from phishing emails and leaning toward exploiting server, software, and operating system vulnerabilities instead.

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Spinone

JULY 8, 2020

Unique identifiers rule – The Unique Identifiers Rule provides a standard for identification of healthcare providers 4. Information intensive industries like healthcare deal with an overwhelming amount of information. So, Google Cloud Search technology can be extremely helpful for healthcare organizations.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

million Healthcare organizations for the 9th year in a row had the highest costs associated with data breaches – $6.45 IBM’s “ 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report ” details the costs that come from a data breach as a result of various cybersecurity risks. million The average overall cost of a data breach amounted to $3.92

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

This is ransomware, starting with a phishing attack. Then from there we go to a we're brute forcing username passwords or credentials. Van Norman: So it's more around the ICS portion of healthcare. Make sure you have a backup spare. So this power grid attack is sounding more credible. It's all identifying the risks.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

Phishing Phishing is a fraudulent practice that tricks people into opening malicious emails and clicking on fake links that infect your computer with ransomware. The main point of phishing is to make the message look trustworthy and convince a user to take the required action. There are two opposite positions on this.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2022

malware was delivered via Spear-phishing attacks and Watering hole attacks targeting employees of such companies. But now CISA (and the FBI) has taken Information Sharing to a whole new level. The White House on Russian Cyber Threats. It started with the White House. At least 3,300 systems were compromised using this methodology as well. .

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. If you just use username and passwords-- well that’s easily imitated. Multifactor a what's, what's your email, what's your password. Such as their MAC address, their IP address, their geolocation. So that's, that's biometrics right.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

For example, use of data from stealer logs or password mining. Phishing attacks on employees. Company is a private healthcare organization with its own laboratory. There is access to a network, admin-level access, direct connection to SSH servers, access to backups. Obtaining legitimate corporate credentials. Price: 300$.

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