Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot , a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Another organization in the healthcare industry was a victim of a Ransomware attack, this time the victim is Brooklyn Hospital. A ransomware attack has infected several computer systems at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York, the organization permanently lost patient data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2023

For the past 1 year or so, a museum is unable to access its artecraft database because of a ransomware attack on the servers of Gloucester City Council. The Phishing email attack took place in the year 2021 and the Museum of Gloucester that identified the unauthorized intrusion is still being affected by the cyber incident.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2020

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Coronavirus-themed attacks March 15 – March 21, 2020. Coronavirus-themed campaign delivers a new variant of Netwalker Ransomware. Microsoft warns of targeted attacks exploiting Windows zero-day flaws.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

The healthcare industry has been leveraging IoT devices for years, steadily increasing its use in facilities and patient care. By 2027, the IoT in Healthcare market is expected to reach $290 billion , up from just $60 billion in 2019. Exploitation could allow attackers to access patient data, launch denial of service attacks and more.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Iran announced to have foiled a second cyber-attack in a week. Largest hospital system in New Jersey was hit by ransomware attack. Ryuk Ransomware is suspected to be involved in the New Orleans cyberattack.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

On the 14th of May, the Health Service Executive (HSE) , Ireland’s publicly funded healthcare system, fell victim to a Conti ransomware attack, forcing the organization to shut down more than 80,000 affected endpoints and plunging them back to the age of pen and paper. Threat profile: Conti ransomware.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

As the world marks the second Anti-Ransomware Day, there’s no way to deny it: ransomware has become the buzzword in the security community. Year after year, the attackers have grown bolder, methodologies have been refined and, of course, systems have been breached. Part I: Three preconceived ideas about ransomware.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 13, 2021

And prospective cybersecurity employees want to understand how to get into a dynamic, lucrative, mission-led industry, so they can develop a future-proofed career. By presenting a good case for pursuing a career in cybersecurity, the good news is, interest is up. With this approach, they reach thousands of students every year.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

The threat landscape for businesses today is filled with many different security threats and attack vectors used by hackers and other malicious individuals. What Is a Cyber Attack? Cyber attacks have become all too common in today’s world largely due to how organizations have evolved in the way they carry out business.

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Spinone

MAY 14, 2020

This can include the ever-growing threat of malware such as ransomware and other cybersecurity threats, or it could be the threat posed each and every day from end-users who may mistakenly delete business-critical data. Attackers may infiltrate the perimeter defenses of your infrastructure and gain unauthorized access to your data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 14, 2021

Despite the challenges of 2020, the IoT industry is thriving. In fact, IoT Analytics, a leading provider of market insights for the Internet of Things (IoT), M2M, and Industry 4.0, As hospitals and physicians were overwhelmed with COVID patients, people with chronic conditions and less serious illnesses had to take a backseat.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It was on a project that Dan Kaminsky presented at Discourse 2019. With SQL queries, I can do anomaly detection and detect cyber attacks. With a database operating system, you’ll known in milliseconds if you’ve been attacked with malware. He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. With simple, really fast SQL queries.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

I first became aware of the term back in 1988, when as a kid, I saw Dan rather on the CBS Evening News talk about Robert Morris Junior, who had just launched the first computer worm. A widely used social news and entertainment website built around user submitted content. Is it the hospital, which should have had a power backup?

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