Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2024

Crooks manipulate GitHub’s search results to distribute malware BatBadBut flaw allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows Roku disclosed a new security breach impacting 576,000 accounts LastPass employee targeted via an audio deepfake call TA547 targets German organizations with Rhadamanthys malware CISA adds D-Link multiple (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Data Breach Costs: The average global cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 Healthcare Spending: From 2020 to 2025, the healthcare sector plans to spend $125 billion on cyber security to tackle its vulnerability.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 4, 2023

The Crown Princess Mary Cancer Center is the healthcare facility that is in discussion and federal government agencies are trying to contain the incident on the servers of the facility, which is part of the Sydney West Cancer Network. According to sources, a hack has exposed data of over 780,000 children who were patients of Brightline.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 15, 2022

Twitter data breach affects 5.4M Twilio breached after social engineering attack on employees. Summer of exploitation leads to healthcare under fire. Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: KMSpico explained: No, KMS is not "kill Microsoft". Can your EDR handle a ransomware attack?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare Organizations Need to Adapt Their Data Protection Policies to the New Threat Environment. Healthcare providers are at the epicenter of the fight against coronavirus. Given this, healthcare organizations need to advance their security efforts to adapt to this shifting environment. Tue, 11/17/2020 - 06:44.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

Data Level: Encrypting sensitive data at rest and in transit is crucial to securing information. A prime example is the healthcare sector, where the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates encryption to protect patient health information.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Okta this week warned nearly 5,000 employees that their personal information was exposed due to a data breach suffered by the third-party vendor Rightway Healthcare. In early September, Okta warned customers of social engineering attacks carried out in recent weeks by threat actors to obtain elevated administrator permissions.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2018

billion data records have been exposed in data breached in the first half of 2018. According to a new report titled “ Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView ” published by the cyber threat intelligence company Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed in the first half of 2018.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2021

The cleaner’s insider access takes care of the physical access challenge, while detachment to the organization makes the individual more susceptible to social engineering. There is an abundance of social engineering techniques, of which many are sinister, such as blackmail. The Faceless Man.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

The vast majority of cyberattacks rely on social engineering – the deception and manipulation of victims to coerce them into either opening malware or voluntarily providing sensitive information. Ensure that account credentials are secure.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

In recent years, there has been an explosion of almost unbelievable data breaches making news headlines that have resulted in anything but a positive outcome for the organizations involved. As the world we live in has become much more digital in nature, information and data volumes are increasing exponentially.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

A good start would be to read Mobilizing the C-Suite: Waging War Against Cyberattacks, written by Frank Riccardi, a former privacy and compliance officer from the healthcare sector. LW: Catastrophic infrastructure and supply chain breaches, not to mention spy balloons and Tik Tok exploits, have grabbed regulators’ attention.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Availability & Reliability Cloud storage service outages affect business operations and hinder access to crucial data. Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Examples include GDPR in Europe, HIPAA in healthcare, and PCI DSS for payment card data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

And security researchers from ESET have discovered that the malware was uploaded to the VirusTotal operated system in Brazil and was targeted by a social engineering attack. Sixth is the news related to a billing company that provides services to the healthcare sector.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

This week WebsitePlanet along with the researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database, belonging to the US healthcare and pharmaceutical giant CVS Health, that was exposed online. Researchers discovered an unprotected database belonging to CVS Health that was exposed online containing over a billion records.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2023

Twitter released a statement indicating that this attack was the result of employees with internal access falling victim to social engineering that allowed the bad actors to take advantage of their insider privilege. The affected accounts included Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Apple, and Uber.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Targeted Phishing and Social Engineering: In some cases, attackers may employ targeted phishing emails or social engineering techniques to gain initial access to a system within the target network. By using specific search queries, an attacker can identify systems that are potentially susceptible to EternalBlue.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

Human error still causes the overwhelming majority of cybersecurity breaches. Researchers from Stanford University found that approximately 88% of all data breaches are caused by an employee mistake. With over 600 million users, Sina Weibo is one of China’s largest social media platforms. Social engineering.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

According to Verizon’s most recent Data Breach Incident Report , instances of advanced ransomware have doubled in the past year, alongside major upticks in phishing attacks and social engineering. Municipalities and healthcare organizations that need immediate access to critical information are also frequent targets.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

That’s how they’re going to transfer data in, hopefully, a secure channel to pass information back and forth with each other.”. However, APIs are also more frequently the source of data breaches and other cyber incidents. No one really knows exactly how many APIs are out there. This dynamic came into play at the U.S.

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NopSec

MAY 9, 2016

Compliance isn’t enough for healthcare organizations. Recent highly publicized data breaches in major hospitals show that minimum compliance is not effective when protecting your data. The biggest risk for data breaches remains the people within the organization. This is simply not the case.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Double extortion introduces catastrophic risks of data breach and loss of customer trust if sensitive information gets leaked publicly. Even just the notification of a data breach can harm an organization's reputation and bottom line. Stress reporting suspicious activity.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2023

Latest email security trends Phishing and spear-phishing attacks: Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where cybercriminals use deceptive emails to trick recipients into divulging sensitive information or downloading malware. These attacks often rely on social engineering tactics and email spoofing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2023

Latest email security trends Phishing and spear-phishing attacks: Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where cybercriminals use deceptive emails to trick recipients into divulging sensitive information or downloading malware. These attacks often rely on social engineering tactics and email spoofing.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Most probably more attacks on the education and healthcare sectors will occur plus targeted campaigns against industry leaders – especially those that hold critical information: sensitive data, top expertise, and latest technologies. Vulnerabilities in Autonomous Vehicles. What are the main challenges cybersecurity will face in 2023?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Despite all the advances in cybersecurity, email remains the starting point for the vast majority of cyberattacks, as phishing, malware and social engineering remain effective attack techniques. Enforces email content restrictions to guarantee regulatory compliance and safeguard against data breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 8, 2021

This is because the lockdown that’s imposed in many countries has made it a must for companies and healthcare providers to stay connected via online sources. . Application security practices are of paramount importance in activities like secure information transfer, online transactions, and conversational data handling.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

According to IDC’s 2021 State of Cloud Security Report , 79 percent of surveyed companies reported a cloud data breach in the last 18 months. Public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) may be less vulnerable than traditional data centers, but that doesn’t mean it’s without its own set of risks.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

The primary target and focus for nation-states will continue to be their adversaries Critical Infrastructure sectors, such as healthcare, government, communications, transportation, defense industrial base, media, utilities, finance, and cargo logistics. Recovery from supply chain attacks will cost 3x-5x more as compared to data breaches.

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Herjavec Group

JULY 29, 2021

Threat actors have developed social engineering approaches that leverage the uncertainty and chaos of the pandemic in order to deliver their malicious software. Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) has emerged as a result of increasingly sophisticated phishing methods, coordinated sharing of leaked data, and a growing dark web community.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

My healthcare is always going to be one again, it's a vertical healthcare and education, both where you have large amounts of very sensitive information, but not necessarily the budgets to secure it effectively. It’s not like data breaches are going away, they’re shifting. It's not really a dip.

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