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Security Affairs newsletter Round 373 by Pierluigi Paganini

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Unfaithful HackerOne employee steals bug reports to claim additional bounties Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022 CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2022-26925 by July 22 Tens of Jenkins plugins are affected by zero-day vulnerabilities Microsoft: Raspberry Robin worm already infected hundreds of networks. Upgrade it now!

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The Future of Payments Security

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The increasing trend of using mobile payments for in-store purchases (especially during the pandemic) is leading criminals to increasingly focus their efforts on defrauding people through online fraud and scams. Fraud and scams move to the web. The stolen data is used both to commit fraud directly and indirectly. Encryption.

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Healthcare Organizations Need to Adapt Their Data Protection Policies to the New Threat Environment

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In addition, telemedicine has generated a larger pool for potential phishing scams as well as other socially-engineered, and technically based, attacks (e.g., The degree of digitalization and the scientific efforts for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine have further increased the threat surface. ransomware).

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The Countdown to Black Friday Has Begun. Are Retailers and Consumers Ready?

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Protecting Consumer Data is Priority #1. In our 2018 Data Threat Report-Retail Edition , we found 50% of respondents reported a data breach this past year, so it goes without saying that the holiday shopping season is a prime time for cyber criminals to target both retailers and consumers alike.

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How IT Will Prevail in the 2021 Cyber-Demic

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Cybercriminals have always been opportunistic, taking advantage of all possible avenues that disrupt businesses, steal data, trick end users, and more to turn a profit. Still, the COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented surges in threat activity as cybercriminals capitalized on chaos and security gaps caused by the switch to WFH.

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Managing Digital Security as Risk and Complexity Rise

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Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach. The Threat Level Is Rising. having been breached at some point in the past. billion worth of academic research by performing a phishing scam on university professors.” Encryption of data at rest and in motion.

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Building Trust in Finance: Challenges & Solutions

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Challenge 1: Data breaches and ID fraud A single hack or data breach can undo decades of trust building and have a catastrophic effect on the perception of a financial organisation. These threats include sophisticated phishing scams, complex cyber-attacks aimed at stealing sensitive customer information and ID fraud.