Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Hackers may have accessed thousands of accounts on the California state welfare platform Brokewell Android malware supports an extensive set of Device Takeover capabilities Experts warn of an ongoing malware campaign targeting WP-Automatic plugin Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling Kaiser Permanente data breach may have impacted (..)

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

In December 2023, Elliptic and Corvus Insurance published a joint research that revealed the group accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime) ” reads the CSA.

Ransomware 106

Ransomware Hacking Healthcare Retail 106

Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

This misconfigured Salesforce Community site from the state of Vermont was leaking pandemic assistance loan application data, including names, SSNs, email address and bank account information. That data later wound up for sale on a top cybercrime forum. Huntington Bank has disabled the leaky TCF Bank Salesforce website. ”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2024

France Travail data breach impacted 43 Million people Scranton School District in Pennsylvania suffered a ransomware attack Lazarus APT group returned to Tornado Cash to launder stolen funds Moldovan citizen sentenced in connection with the E-Root cybercrime marketplace case UK Defence Secretary jet hit by an electronic warfare attack in Poland Cisco (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Australian health insurer Medibank confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 Medibank is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers with approximately 3.9 Medibank is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers with approximately 3.9 million customers. million customers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Exposed data Includes names, addresses, social insurance numbers, gender, marital status, date of birth, and rates of pay. The attackers also stole a “limited set” data from Erie Shoes HealthCare including 352 current and past employee social insurance numbers (SIN).

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Ransomware Healthcare VPN Insurance 106

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

Compromised data exposed personal and Medicare information of the individuals, including name, date of birth, address, Medicare Health Insurance Claim Number (which contains a Social Security number associated with a member) and some medical information and/or health insurance information.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The university notified appropriate law enforcement entities, and the university’s Information Security Office (ISO) investigated and resolved the incident in consultation with an external firm that specializes in responding to ransomware attacks.” ” reads a press release published by the University.

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Ransomware Cyber Insurance Insurance Advertising 143

Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

Bitmarck, one of the largest IT service providers for social insurance carriers in Germany, announced yesterday that it has suffered a cyber attack. “We very much regret the inconvenience caused to our customers, service providers and insured persons and are working to restore the systems as quickly as possible.”

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Insurance Data breaches Cyber Attacks Education 75

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2021

. “Judging by the composition of the data, the new database of car owners is not an unloading from the traffic police system, but rather an unloading from the databases of insurers, the founder of the DLBI data leak intelligence and darknet monitoring service Ashot Hovhannisyan believes.” ” continues the post.

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Insurance Hacking Cybercrime Media 93

Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

MCNA Dental is one of the largest US dental care and oral health insurance providers. The security breach exposed the personal information of current or former provider of dental/orthodontic care to members of certain state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs, for which MCNA provides dental benefits and services.

Ransomware 80

Ransomware Insurance Data breaches Identity Theft 80

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Uninstall it immediately Microsoft Exchange flaw CVE-2024-21410 could impact up to 97,000 servers ConnectWise fixed critical flaws in ScreenConnect remote access tool More details about Operation Cronos that disrupted Lockbit operation Cactus ransomware gang claims the theft of 1.5TB of data from Energy management and industrial automation firm Schneider (..)

Spyware 88

Spyware Cyber Insurance Hacking Advertising 88

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

ViperSoftX uses more sophisticated encryption and anti-analysis techniques Atomic macOS Stealer is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month CISA warns of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT service in Italy after meeting Garante Privacy’s demands Cisco discloses a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment (..)

Cybercrime 84

Cybercrime Malware Hacking Accountability 84

Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2020

Burkov was also operating another invite-only cybercrime forum, to obtain membership prospective members needed three existing members to “vouch” for their good reputation in the cybercrime community. The membership also requested a sum of money, normally $5,000, as insurance.

Marketing 105

Marketing Cybercrime Advertising Insurance 105

Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The man is responsible for the cyber attacks that in 2022 hit the Australian insurance provider Medibank. Medibank is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers with approximately 3.9 “ In November 2022, Medibank announced that personal data belonging to around 9.7M million customers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2024

After an extensive review with third-party experts, on April 30, 2024, we discovered that some of the data accessed or acquired by the unauthorized third party may have contained your protected health information.” Sav-Rx took eight months to notify impacted individuals to avoid impacting patient care with its investigation.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

FIN7 using this technique to target businesses in the transportation and insurance industries since August 2021, while it started targeting defense firms since November 2021. In some of the attacks investigated by the FBI, the cybercrime group obtained administrative access and moved laterally within the target network.

Insurance 79

Insurance Malware Cybercrime Ransomware 79

Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2023

In April, the non-profit health insurer Point32Health took systems offline in response to a ransomware attack that took place on April 17. The insurer immediately launched an investigation into the incident with the help of third-party cybersecurity experts to determine the extent of the incident. .”

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2024

Medibank is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers with approximately 3.9 .” In November 2022, Medibank announced that personal data belonging to around 9.7M of current and former customers were exposed due to a ransomware attack that occurred in October 2022. million customers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

They have a range of market insurance products backed by international company, Allianz Group. Firstmac Limited, one of the largest non-bank lenders in Australia, disclosed a data breach. Firstmac Limited is an Australian owned company with experience in home and investment loans.

Data breaches 93

Data breaches Cyber Attacks Identity Theft Banking 93

Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2024

Potentially compromised information includes name, date of birth, address, Social Security number, medical information, and health insurance information. In a new update shared by the company with the Maine Attorney General , the organization declared that the total number of persons affected is 895,204.

Identity Theft 88

Identity Theft Ransomware Data breaches Insurance 88

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Exposed information varied by individual and may include some combination of certain individuals’ names, social Security number, health insurance information, date of birth, and medical information. ” reads the notice of data breach sent to the Maine Attorney General.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2021

Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversarial cyber intelligence company specializing in the investigation and prevention of high-tech cybercrime, has published a comprehensive analysis of fraud cases on a global scale. . Insurance companies around the world are now suffering from phishing.

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Scams Banking Retail Insurance 88

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

CISA adds two F5 BIG-IP flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Threat actors actively exploit F5 BIG-IP flaws CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748 Pro-Hamas hacktivist group targets Israel with BiBi-Linux wiper British Library suffers major outage due to cyberattack Critical Atlassian Confluence flaw can lead to significant data loss WiHD (..)

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Cyber Insurance Cryptocurrency Internet Internet 95

Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

Finally the insurer for Joplin paid $320,000 to threat actors. While investigation into the security breach is still ongoing, the insurer for the City opted to pay a $320,00 ransom to avoid that the leak of the stolen info, Joplin City Manager Nick Edwards confirmed this week.

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Ransomware Insurance Internet Internet 106

Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

The financial technology company is offering two years of Equifax identity monitoring services to the impacted customers, that include fraud alerts and up to $1 million of identity theft insurance coverage for a specific list of out-of-pocket expenses resulting from identity theft. ” said Gal.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Accountability Passwords 84

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Black Shadow hacked the Israeli insurance firm Shirbit in December and demanded a $1 million ransom, but the victim refused to pay it. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). The post Iranian Black Shadow hacking group breached Israeli Internet hosting firm appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

Internet 97

Internet Internet Hacking Insurance 97

Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2023

employees info (social security numbers, emails, addresses, phone numbers, photos, insurances info, payments, etc.), and customers info (medical records, credit cards, emails, social security numbers, phone numbers, insurances, etc.). ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2020

Burkov was also operating another invite-only cybercrime forum, to obtain membership prospective members needed three existing members to “vouch” for their good reputation in the cybercrime community. The membership also requested a sum of money, normally $5,000, as insurance.

Identity Theft 64

Identity Theft Cybercrime Advertising Insurance 64

Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

Compromised organizations operate in different business verticals, including manufacturing, wealth management, insurance providers, and pharmaceuticals. The researchers noticed that the path contains the same mutex name as the Babuk ransomware, a circumstance that suggests the malware borrows Babuk’s leaked source code.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

Gb - NDA The group published a set of files as proof of the security breach and threatens leak all the stolen data if the victim will not pay the ransom. 18 Gb.dwg - 38295 pcs - drawings and schematics of chips, microchips, transistors, etc. All data is confidential, contains trade secrets. - Gb AWACS software - 13 Gb.esm files - 1.9

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Optum Solutions is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, a leading health insurance company in the United States. In a recent ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware attack, the group hit the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum leading to an outage impacting the Change Healthcare payment exchange platform.

Data breaches 87

Data breaches Healthcare Insurance Ransomware 87

BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

He also warned against using insurance payouts to cover losses. Insurance is never supposed to pay for everything. Don’t use your insurance policy as your ransomware response. Joseph Stephens of Ireland’s National Cyber Security Centre, also had hopeful words for the audience. It’s never going to be enough,” he said.

Social Engineering 59

Social Engineering Insurance CISO Ransomware 59

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 11, 2021

Be it health care or information security, it reasonably attempts to take actions in advance. Successful attacks against high-profile organizations propel this cybercrime model the most. Ransomware incidents covered by cyber insurance policies. This is of particular relevance when it comes to ransomware.

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Ransomware Insurance Encryption Cyber Insurance 71

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For some of the impacted individuals, threat actors also gained access to Social Security Numbers (SSNs), Medicare/Medicaid ID numbers, and certain Health Insurance information. The company has no evidence that any of patients’ information has been misused. million Genworth 2.5 million PH Tech 1.7 million “U.S.-based

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Data breaches Insurance Healthcare Hacking 88

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

US government agencies warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting the U.S. CISA, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting U.S. Implementing HIPAA security measures can prevent the introduction of malware on the system.

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