Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The data breach suffered by LastPass in August 2022 may have been more severe than previously thought. The company engaged a leading cybersecurity and forensics firm to investigate the incident, at the time of disclosure it confirmed that the data breach did not compromise users’ Master Passwords.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2021

Oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) discloses a data breach resulting from the compromise of its Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) file sharing service. Energy giant Shell disclosed a data breach resulting from the compromise of an Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) used by the company. billion in 2020.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The security breach was first reported by BleepingComputer that also shared a copy of the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted customers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Data breaches can be devastating for organizations, these are 3 of the worst incidents that could have been prevented. Data breaches can be devastating for organizations and even entire countries. Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Elbit Systems of America, a subsidiary of defense giant Elbit Systems, disclosed a data breach after Black Basta ransomware gang claimed to have hacked it. Now the company has confirmed the data breach that took place on June 8, 2022 and impacted 369 people. Elbit Systems of America, LLC is a U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released guidance on how to prevent data breaches resulting from ransomware attacks. The post US CISA releases guidance on how to prevent ransomware data breaches appeared first on Security Affairs. softwa re company Kaseya. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by the end of 2021. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur.

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Veracode Security

MAY 14, 2021

Verizon recently published its 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). This year, Verizon analyzed 79,635 incidents, of which 29,207 met their quality standards and 5,258 were confirmed data breaches, from 88 countries around the world. Phishing, ransomware, and web app attacks … Oh my!

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

Western Digital is notifying its customers of a data breach that exposed their sensitive personal information, the incident took place in March. The company is sending customers data breach notification letters to confirm that threat actors have stolen sensitive personal information in the March attack.

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Quick Heal Antivirus

JULY 3, 2023

The post White Snake Menace: The Growing Threat of Information Stealers in the Cybercrime Landscape appeared first on Quick Heal Blog. Introduction The rise of malicious software designed to steal sensitive information has become a significant problem in the.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

GoTo is notifying customers that its development environment was breached in November 2022, attackers stole customers’ backups and encryption key. ” reads the data breach notification. Now the investigation revaled that threat actors were able to access customers’ data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

Chipmaker giant Nvidia confirmed a data breach after the recently disclosed security incident, proprietary information stolen. The security breach is not connected to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the incident. . With this they were able to connect to a [virtual machine] we use.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2024

AT&T has notified US state authorities and regulators about its recent (or not) data breach, saying 51,226,382 people were affected. For those that have missed the story so far: Back in 2021, a hacker named Shiny Hunters claimed to have breached AT&T. The seller claimed the data came from the Shiny Hunters breach.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

million Zacks Investment Research users was leaked on a cybercrime forum. The availability of the archive was reported by the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned , which notified Zecks. At the time, the company added that it had no evidence that financial data has been exposed due to the security incident.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 30, 2024

The cybercrime gang RansomHub has claimed responsibility and is threatening to release "a massive trove of sensitive personal information" belonging wealthy clients of Christie's unless their ransom demand is met. Major public breaches have severely impacted other luxury brands in the past.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Another fashion retailer suffered a data breach, the victim is SHEIN that announces the security breach affected 6.42 The retailer hired a forensic cybersecurity firm as well as an international law firm to investigate the security breach. ” reads the data breach notification. million customers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

Energy management and industrial automation firm Schneider Electric suffered a data breach after a Cactus ransomware attack. BleepingComputer contacted Schneider Electric which confirmed the data breach. The attack impacted the services of Schneider Electric’s Resource Advisor cloud platform causing outages.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

0ktapus often leveraged information or access gained in one breach to perpetrate another. Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. On July 28 and again on Aug. “I got thousands of grails.”

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

With cybercrime at record levels, businesses are on guard against a constantly growing number and variety of threats. But even as companies race to increase cybersecurity spending and awareness, data breaches have actually become much more (not less) likely. How Might the Target Breach Have Been Prevented?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

CISA: hackers breached a state government organization Russia-linked Turla APT uses new TinyTurla-NG backdoor to spy on Polish NGOs US Gov dismantled the Moobot botnet controlled by Russia-linked APT28 A cyberattack halted operations at Varta production plants North Korea-linked actors breached the emails of a Presidential Office member Nation-state (..)

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Alarming Reality of Fraud Fraud and cybercrime are pressing challenges for all sectors, including financial services. Fraud and cybercrime account for over 40% of all estimated crimes in England and Wales and affects more people more often than any other crime. billion annually.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. There are several ways you can protect your business from data breaches. Inventory your sensitive data. Create security awareness for employees.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2024

Earlier this week, the data of over 70 million people was posted for sale on an online cybercrime forum. The person selling the data claims it stems from a 2021 breach at AT&T. Fast forward three years and another threat actor calling themselves MajorNelson has leaked what they say is the same data.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 3, 2023

The global average data breach cost is $4.24 Human error accounts for 95% of all data breaches. According to PurpleSec, 98% of cybercrime relies on social engineering to accomplish it. Ransomware is malware that encrypts the victim's data and demands a ransom for its decryption.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Hospitality giant Marriott today disclosed a massive data breach exposing the personal and financial information on as many as a half billion customers who made reservations at any of its Starwood properties over the past four years. Starwood hotel brands include W Hotels, St.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 1, 2022

New version includes 11 important security patches Lightning Framework, modular Linux malware Malware spent months hoovering up credit card details from 300 US restaurants Lock down your Neopets account: Data breach being investigated Demo: Your data has been encrypted! And it did.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 1, 2022

Lock down your Neopets account: Data breach being investigated. Demo: Your data has been encrypted! T-Mobile agrees to pay customers $350 million in settlement over data breach. Stopping ransomware attacks with Malwarebytes EDR. Microsoft clamps down on RDP brute-force attacks in Windows 11. And it did.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Cybercrime is on the rise. billion to data breaches and cybercrime. billion to data breaches and cybercrime. Email encryption Companies rely on email to distribute important information, but when that information is confidential and sensitive, you need an encryption tool to protect it.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. ru using the email address tretyakov-files@yandex.ru.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Encryption and data backup. Data encryption is a protection strategy that renders data useless even when an intruder accesses it. Encrypting all your company’s sensitive data and private information ensures that it’s protected from data breaches. Secure your hardware.

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