Webroot

APRIL 22, 2025

Here are some of the most likely targets for access to consumer data: Healthcare organizations : Healthcare companies are a prime target for cybercrime due to the large amounts of sensitive data they store, which includes personal information and medical records.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2025

By combining robust encryption, trusted execution environments, and support from Intel Tiber Trust Authority and major cloud providers, this solution brings continuous, verifiable protection to even the most sensitive workloads. A bank working to prevent fraud and money laundering needs to analyze large volumes of financial data.

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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. Cybercrime has been steadily on the rise for the past years. Nearly 3 billion records were stolen in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.,

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 3, 2025

A mid-sized healthcare provider had identified serious vulnerabilities in their patient data systems. Then came the inevitable: a ransomware attack that encrypted patient records, forced appointment cancellations for three weeks, and ultimately cost more than $12 million in recovery costs, regulatory fines, and lost revenue.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2025

The lack of encryption standards across different jurisdictions further complicates this issue, as some countries mandate strong encryption protocols while others impose restrictions on cryptographic techniques. Privacy-enhancing technologies are designed to minimize exposure to sensitive data while ensuring regulatory adherence.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 16, 2025

It is tightly integrated across HPE GreenLake , storage , compute , networking , and services , and delivers centralized key management, secrets management, security root of trust, data discovery and classification, encryption, tokenization, and access controls seamlessly integrated within HPE's hybrid cloud architecture.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2025

Big themes from the year included rising attacks against healthcare providers and incidents reflecting geopolitical tensions. Februarys Change Healthcare ransomware attack led to 100 million data breach notices being sent. The information included theloss of sensitive papers, encrypted devices, and unauthorised access to social media.

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Security Through Education

JULY 7, 2025

Even in today’s digitally interconnected world, the front line of information security isn’t always a firewall or an encryption protocol. Customer-facing employees interact with people constantly—whether they work in insurance, IT, healthcare, or finance. More often it’s a person!

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Ransomware Targets Critical Infrastructure: Ransomware attacks will increasingly focus on critical infrastructure, including healthcare, utilities, and transportation, leading to potentially catastrophic consequences. The demand for skilled professionals will outpace supply, making talent retention and training critical priorities.'

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Hacker's King

JULY 21, 2025

Enhanced Security Protocols With cyber threats on the rise, SOA OS23 has a security setup that layers encryption, tight access controls, and identity federation, making sure data stays safe from end to end. Healthcare Systems: Hospitals and clinics can trade patient records smoothly and safely.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 19, 2025

Sector Trust Rankings: Stability and Shifts Banking Retains Leadership Amid Generational Divides The banking sector maintained its position as the most trusted industry in both 2024 and 2025, though its dominance weakened among younger demographics. where government trust lagged at 29%.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 3, 2025

Alarmingly, the database also held sensitive data from banking institutions, healthcare providers, and government portals. The anatomy of the breach The exposed database was neither encrypted nor password-protected, making it easily accessible to anyone who stumbled upon it.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 19, 2022

At some point in the not-so-distant future, quantum computers are going to pose a major threat to today’s encryption mechanisms and encrypted data. To begin with, all of today’s encrypted communications could potentially be at risk of being leaked and abused. So, how could today’s communications leak tomorrow?

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Adam Levin

APRIL 10, 2019

A security analysis of 30 major banking and financial apps has shown major security holes and a lax approach to protecting user data. Among the most alarming finding was the practice of embedding and hard-coding of private certificates and API keys into banking apps. Read more about their report’s findings here.

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Joseph Steinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Nearly every piece of data that is presently protected through the use of encryption may become vulnerable to exposure unless we take action soon. While quantum computers already exist, no devices are believed to yet exist that are anywhere near powerful enough to crack modern encryption in short order.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 20, 2022

There is little doubt that quantum computing will ultimately undermine the security of most of today’s encryption systems , and, thereby, render vulnerable to exposure nearly every piece of data that is presently protected through the use of encryption. Such an attitude is not alarmist – it is reality, whether we like it or not.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2021

million last summer in exchange for a digital key needed to unlock files encrypted by the ransomware. “Attacks have specifically targeted the healthcare sector during the COVID-19 pandemic, taking advantage of the global crisis to extort victims,” the DOJ said. The files encrypted with it cannot be decrypted.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2023

j/5551112222 Zoom has an option to include an encrypted passcode within a meeting invite link, which simplifies the process for attendees by eliminating the need to manually enter the passcode. The PMI portion forms part of each new meeting URL created by that account, such as: zoom.us/j/5551112222

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 17, 2019

Likening this flu scenario to a data breach, 70 percent of healthcare organizations report that they’re sick and the majority are not taking proven and adequate measures to stay well. Cybercriminals know very well the comparative value of sensitive healthcare data and they’re determined to cash in on any and every vulnerability.

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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. Earlier versions appended the.CONTI extension to encrypted files.

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Hot for Security

MAY 26, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has said in a flash announcement that the Conti ransomware group is responsible for at least 16 attacks targeting US healthcare and first responder networks within the last year. The group is said to have infected more than 400 organizations worldwide, including more than 290 in the US.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

3CX says it has more than 600,000 customers and 12 million users in a broad range of industries, including aerospace, healthcare and hospitality. Mandiant found the compromised 3CX software would download malware that sought out new instructions by consulting encrypted icon files hosted on GitHub.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2023

Going forward, let us list out the victims who have been impacted by the attack after the hack-ers gained control of Moveit file transfer software worldwide, a business unit of Progress Software. The post List of victimized companies of MOVEit Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

Trickbot banking malware is back in news for inducing a new ransomware variant into the wild. Researchers from Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs has have found that the new malware strain is acting similar to that of Conti Ransomware with a change that it Asymmetric encryption algorithms unlike other file encrypting malware variants.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Other services impacted by the incident include Healthcare Extensions, UKG TeleStaff, and Banking Scheduling Solutions. Many ransomware families steal confidential information before encrypting the files on the compromised network. A few important things to remember: Keep a close eye on your banking and eMoney accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

North Korean nation-state actors used Maui ransomware to encrypt servers providing healthcare services, including electronic health records services, diagnostics services, imaging services, and intranet services. At the time, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2024

Trades Cybercriminals to Russia in Prisoner Swap Fighting Ursa Luring Targets With Car for Sale Cybersecurity When Cyberattacks Are Inevitable, Focus on Cyber Resilience IBM: Cost of a breach reaches nearly $5 million, with healthcare being hit the hardest Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Secures $1.4

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Coming to the other news that is trending with ransomware headlines on Google, Kronos Private Cloud has been reportedly hit by ransomware in the last weekend resulting in a serious outage to the HR services of UKG Solutions aka UKG Workforce Central, UKG Telestaff, Healthcare Extensions, and Banking Scheduling Solution Services.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It has been seen in conjunction with Cobalt Strike beacons as well as a downloader that has similarities to the Shifu banking Trojan.” “Analysts have observed evidence of the threat actors attempting to deliver ransomware to the healthcare and education industries with PyXie.” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2020

Blackbaud is a cloud computing provider that serves the social good community — nonprofits, foundations, corporations, education institutions, healthcare organizations, religious organizations, and individual change agents.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 29, 2020

The core idea is pretty simple,” says Ambuj Kumar, CEO of Fortanix , a supplier of advanced encryption systems. This too appeared to be for a good cause – it was part of creating a Google healthcare app, called Streams , designed to assist persons recovering from acute kidney injuries. And the data is deleted after 14 days.” “The

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Anton on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As we discussed in “The Cloud trust paradox: To trust cloud computing more, you need the ability to trust it less” , there are situations where the encryption key really does belong off the cloud and so trust is externalized. While we argue that these are rarer than some assume, they absolutely do exist.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The top stories of the month include ALPHV’s shutdown, an increased focus on the healthcare sector, and high-profile attacks on Toyota, Boeing, and more using a Citrix Bleed vulnerability (CVE-2023-4966). In other news, attacks on the healthcare sector last month reached an all-time high at 38 total attacks.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 27, 2021

According to the company, its password manager is used by more than 29,000 customers across the industries of banking, retail, manufacturing, education, healthcare, government, aerospace, and more. That estimate may increase though, said Click Studios, as it continues to investigate.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In late October, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) co-authored an advisory report on the latest tactics used by cybercriminals to target the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. Because it???s

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