BH Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

When economies take a turn for the worse, cybercrime tends to surge. Some experts believe the recession will trigger an increase in cybercrime. We only need to think back to the early days of COVID-19 and how criminals exploited the widespread uncertainty to spread scams, ransomware infections and other threats.

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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 (..)

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

Healthcare sees 580% jump in ransomware attacks. ” “Cybercrime apparently cost the world over $1 trillion in 2020.” Two specific vishing scams that show the current impact of COVID-19 on security are COVID-19 and tech support scams. COVID-19 Scams. Tech Support Scams.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Scamalot: police point to ongoing online fraud… It may be the low-hanging fruit of the security profession, but every now and again it’s worth re-familiarising ourselves with how scams work. Tom Whipple, a journalist with The Times , has an excellent thread showing just how close he came to being scammed. MORE Version 4.0

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Ransomware. During the reporting period, Emotet evolved into a botnet, increased its activity, and initiated new localized spam campaigns with spear-phishing functionality to install ransomware or steal information.". Researchers also found that file-less ransomware skyrocketed and that trend makes sense. Identity Theft.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2024

healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. BlackCat is known as a “ransomware-as-service” collective, meaning they rely on freelancers or affiliates to infect new networks with their ransomware. There are indications that U.S.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

It is the gateway to many types of damaging cyberattack including ransomware, malware, business email compromise (BEC), spoofing, identity theft, brand impersonation and credential compromise. A massive, far-reaching ransomware incident at cloud computing giant BlackBaud also started as phishing. Phishing doesn’t discriminate.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Businesses faced constant threats with phishing scams , malware , and other tactics. This signals a new era of cybercrime where private data becomes prized currency, putting every email address and credit card number at risk. But the numbers alone tell only part of the story.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

One study by Trend Micro reported a 1,318% rise in ransomware attacks targeting banks in the first half of 2021. Right now, we are seeing this play out with ransomware. "We And one of the biggest challenges we have: It's well known that the ransomware crimes that occur, even those that we know, are vastly underreported.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2021

The REvil ransomware (AKA Sodinokibi , which operates as a Ransomware as a Service ) is adopting some outreach techniques after initial compromise , designed to shame victims into paying up. It can have very serious consequences, with at least one tragedy involving a suicide linked to common-or-garden ransomware threats.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. There are dozens if not hundreds of types of scams out there, but we’re going to focus on the scams most likely to affect a business, such as phishing or business email compromise (BEC). Finance and insurance finished a close second at 22.4%. billion in reported losses.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Peterborough has insurance through NH Primex. However, as of publication, it is still unclear how much the insurer will pay off for the damages or if any money will be repaid at all. BEC attacks continue, with less fanfare than ransomware. This provider covers issues related to public risk management.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Ransomware didn’t actually grow year on year; it held steady at 24 per cent of breaches. Security Week’s report focused on the rising cost to recover from a ransomware incident even as ransom amounts themselves are lower. Verizon believes this suggests ransomware victims are a higher proportion of smaller companies than before.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

Computer Weekly said it had learnt that FatFace paid a £1.5m ($2 million US dollar) ransom to the Conti Ransomware gang , disclosing the gang gained access to FatFace network and their IT systems via a phishing email on 10th January 2021. More and More Ransomware Attacks. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Banks and insurance companies are telling customers to be wary of scam messages. The Gardaí and the Irish National Cyber Crime Centre recently alerted small and medium businesses of an increased threat of ransomware attacks. . spyware, ransomware).”. Does it take account of how effective some scam messages can be?

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This is also true for victims of cybercrimes, too. The school district’s cyber insurance provided free credit monitoring, but many parents were still puzzled by how to report the problem and what steps they should take next to protect their children. Other cyber scams where children's data can be vulnerable.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It serves as a vessel for various strains of malware, including ransomware, and underlies data-stealing campaigns that target large organizations and individuals alike. As is the case with another notorious Google Docs phishing scam , security tools don't interpret such a message as malicious because it is sent by Google.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

According to a recent analysis conducted by Freshbooks on the rise of Covid scams, email remains one of the most vulnerable outlets for cybercriminals. Still, because of the overwhelming pressure the healthcare sector suffered due to the Covid-19 pandemic, they were left more vulnerable to cybercrime. The data of over 1.2

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SC Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Devon Ackerman, managing director and head of incident response for North America with Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice, said that the malicious actors behind this growing trend are “directly tied to ransomware groups” and are likely using automated scripts to seek out “Contact Us” or chat forms on the internet that they can abuse.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The risk of identity theft is a concept that most of us are probably familiar with given the rise of cybercrime and data breaches. For example, a recent ransomware attack on one of the largest human resources companies, Kronos, may impact how many employees get paid and track their paid time off. IdentityIQ.

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SecureList

JUNE 26, 2023

That same year saw one of the worst ransomware incidents in history, the Kaseya VSA supply-chain attack. Often, the phishing pages where the employees land if they click a link in a scam e-mail are tailored to look like login pages to the employer’s systems with the company logo on the page.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. 24, Russia invades Ukraine, and fault lines quickly begin to appear in the cybercrime underground. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 20, 2020

From an insider threat case that delayed the shipment of PPE to a Romanian ransomware group targeting public health , attacks kept going after the medical sector. Now another significant cybercrime target is emerging: state unemployment benefit systems. Hackers scam Washington State's unemployment insurance.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The massive shift to work from home in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has meant a rush to secure a wider range of home devices and networks, and an instant spike in demand for training and services that protect employees in identifying attempted cyberattacks and scams. Economic stimulus checks were targeted.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

ChatGPT can step in to offer insights on identifying the latest scams, avoiding social engineering pitfalls, and setting stronger passwords in concise, conversational text that may be more effective than a lecture or slide presentation. Malwarebytes EDR and MDR removes all remnants of ransomware and prevents you from getting reinfected.

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