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CIRWA Project tracks ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure

Security Affairs

Researchers from Temple University have been tracking ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure all over the world. The project was launched in September 2019 and as of August 2020, the experts collected 680 records of ransomware attacks that took place since November 2013. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware).

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Fashion brand Guess hacked, DarkSide ransomware group the likely culprit

SC Magazine

News of the breach was first reported by BleepingComputer on Monday, though DataBreaches.net had previously reported that the DarkSide ransomware group had listed Guess on their data leak site in April. It’s certainly possible that the reported ransomware and breach incidents may be linked.

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Interpol offers online Cybersecurity Campaign

CyberSecurity Insiders

Cybersecurity Awareness Program by Interpol will start on October 4th, 2021 and will end on October 22nd, 2021, and will only be driven through social media.

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SnapMC skips ransomware, steals data

Fox IT

Over the past few months NCC Group has observed an increasing number of data breach extortion cases, where the attacker steals data and threatens to publish said data online if the victim decides not to pay. Collection & Exfiltration. Modus Operandi. Initial Access.

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Thomson Reuters collected and leaked at least 3TB of sensitive data

Security Affairs

The multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters left a database with sensitive customer and corporate data exposed online. Thomson Reuters, a multinational media conglomerate, left an open database with sensitive customer and corporate data, including third-party server passwords in plaintext format.

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What is not included in a Cyber Insurance Policy

CyberSecurity Insiders

Companies that do not have an efficient business continuity plan like failing to back-up information on media or cloud service will not be eligible to go for a claim if, in case, data gets seized by hackers. Some policies do not cover losses incurred by a company indulging in illegitimate data collection of individuals or clients.

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Freshly scraped LinkedIn data of 88,000 US business owners shared online

Security Affairs

About a week after scraped data from more than 700 million LinkedIn profiles were put for sale online , it seems that threat actors have no intention of stopping their abuse of the social media platform’s scrape-friendly systems. Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale.