Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Cybercriminals might be looking to capitalize on the start of the new academic year, which brings high employee turnover and a busy period for sectors like hospitality and retail trade. While the guides themselves aren’t a direct threat, their availability—sometimes shared freely for anyone to download—can lead to an uptick in cyber attacks.

Cyber Attacks 59

Cyber Attacks Phishing Ransomware Cyber Insurance 59

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Korean based company that is into the business of perfume and clothes selling said that the data leak took place on August 8th, 2021 and was because of a cyber attack on a cloud based data storage firm. And usually details such as these are accessed by cyber criminals to launch social engineering driven attacks in the future.

Data breaches 145

Data breaches Social Engineering Cyber Attacks Retail 145

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 30, 2023

JD Sports, Britain’s online retailer of branded sportswear, has reportedly become a victim of a cyber attack that leaked information of over 10 million customers. JD Sports has assured that hackers accessed no passwords related to their accounts and issued an apology for failing to protect the customer info.

Data breaches 109

Data breaches Retail Identity Theft Social Engineering 109

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 15, 2023

Australian firm Latitude Financial Services is hitting news headlines as a cyber attack on its servers has led to the data breach of 225,000 customers. Among the stolen data, a majority of the documents are related to driving licenses, employee login details, and such. The company which has over 2.8

Financial Services 110

Financial Services Identity Theft Social Engineering Cyber Attacks 110

SecureWorld News

JULY 1, 2025

Artificial intelligence is multiplying attacker speed. Generative AI sustains sophisticated, multi-channel social engineering for phishing campaigns to gain access privileges to critical infrastructure. A decade after the Ukraine blackout began with a spear-phishing email, social engineering remains potent.

Social Engineering 77

Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Healthcare 77

Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2025

Petersburg Anthropic study: Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate against executives Serial Hacker “IntelBroker” Charged For Causing $25 Million In Damages To Victims Police arrest five high-profile French hackers behind a notorious data theft forum Cybercriminals Abuse Open-Source Tools To Target Africa’s Financial Sector FBI Warns of Scattered (..)

Data breaches 61

Data breaches Ransomware Social Engineering Telecommunications 61

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2019

As long as cyber attacks continue, financial institutions will remain a prime target, for obvious reasons. Yet, they are much less well equipped to detect and repel cyber attackers, who are relentlessly seeking out and exploiting the fresh attack vectors spinning out of expansion of mobile banking.

Banking 147

Banking Mobile Accountability Artificial Intelligence 147

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

Social Engineering 126

Social Engineering Spyware Data breaches Surveillance 126

Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

More threats were detected on iOS than Android devices; 68% of Australian CISOs expect their organization to suffer a material cyber-attack within the next year. Mobile devices pave the way to launch ransomware attacks on Australian businesses of every scale and domain. Common Trends Among the Australian Mobile Threats.

Social Engineering 92

Social Engineering Mobile Scams Engineering 92

The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

London, July 13, 2023 — Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, today published its latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023. The economic impact of cybercrime on business across the globe continues to reach new levels, with the cost predicted to reach US$10.5

Cyber Risk 189

Cyber Risk Risk Insurance Energy and Utilities 189

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

A cyberattack crippled the IT infrastructure of the City of Saint John Hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities have their naked photos and videos leaked online Romanians arrested for running underground malware services Threat actor shared a list of 49,577 IPs vulnerable Fortinet VPNs Computer Security and Data Privacy, the perfect alliance (..)

Data breaches 106

Data breaches Social Engineering Ransomware Malware 106

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

LockBit ransomware gang claims to have stolen data from PayBito crypto exchange FBI issued a flash alert on Lockbit ransomware operation CISA orders federal agencies to fix actively exploited CVE-2022-21882 Windows flaw Over 500,000 people were impacted by a ransomware attack that hit Morley Ransomware attack hit Swissport International causing delays (..)

Cryptocurrency 98

Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Small Business Hacking 98

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Cybercriminals might be looking to capitalize on the start of the new academic year, which brings high employee turnover and a busy period for sectors like hospitality and retail trade. While the guides themselves aren’t a direct threat, their availability—sometimes shared freely for anyone to download—can lead to an uptick in cyber attacks.

Cyber Attacks 52

Cyber Attacks Phishing Ransomware Cyber Insurance 52

SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

BadMagic: new APT related to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, we have identified a significant number of geo-political cyber-attacks, as outlined in our overview of the cyber-attacks related to the conflict. The threat actor uses social engineering to infect a PoS terminal.

DNS 105

DNS Malware Cryptocurrency Retail 105

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 6, 2022

Once an attacker has access to an account, they can view personal information and leverage that for a successful social engineering attack, sell that information on the Dark Web, or if they find financial information, make fraudulent purchases. In all, the OAG collected credentials for more than 1.1

Accountability 98

Accountability Authentication Social Engineering Passwords 98

Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

Data breaches 52

Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

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.

Security Awareness 40

Security Awareness Risk Cyber threats Cyber Risk 40

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2021

After a slight pause, they ask you to purchase some gift cards for an upcoming raffle from whatever local retailer is close to you. It’s important training includes more than just a series of videos and a test; organizations have to leverage active participation tools as well such as social engineering campaigns.

Technology 139

Technology Cyber Attacks Social Engineering Media 139

ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

I'd like to say there's a dip which might have caused people to question whether or not cyber insurance was necessary. And on top of that, social engineering woes are growing, that's becoming more and more of fraudulent payments, just all these other things. So with all that said, Do I see cyber insurance going away?

Internet 40

Internet Internet Insurance Cyber Insurance 40

Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

It was one of the worst years (if not the worst) for cyber attacks. More retailers accept several forms of online payments. Hacked social media accounts’ prices are decreasing across all platforms. 2020 is a case in point. Even FireEye and SolarWinds got hit, and those last two are digital security companies.

Accountability 139

Accountability Marketing Hacking Cryptocurrency 139

Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

Key Information About Ransomware Ransomware is in the top-five threats in all fields and the second biggest cybersecurity threat in the retail business. That is why hackers use social engineering tricks to pressure victims into paying a ransom. Most antiviruses don’t protect against ransomware.

Ransomware 59

Ransomware Encryption Antivirus Backups 59

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2024

CISA adds ScienceLogic SL1 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog VMware failed to fully address vCenter Server RCE flaw CVE-2024-38812 Cisco states that data published on cybercrime forum was taken from public-facing DevHub environment Internet Archive was breached twice in a month Unknown threat actors exploit Roundcube Webmail flaw (..)

Data breaches 121

Data breaches Healthcare Cybercrime Hacking 121