Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key Points Phishing incidents rose during the reporting period (August 1 to October 31, 2024), accounting for 46% of all customer incidents. This increase is likely driven by high employee turnover and easy access to phishing kits. Meanwhile, “RansomHub” is rising rapidly due to its attractive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2025

ThreatLabz researchers demonstrated how DeepSeek can be manipulated to quickly generate phishing pages that mimic trusted brands. generated phishing campaigns: A ThreatLabz case study demonstrates how DeepSeek can create a phishing page in just five prompts.AI-driven

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Webroot

APRIL 22, 2025

Financial services industry: Banks, insurance companies and other financial organizations offer a wealth of opportunity for hackers who can use stolen bank account and credit card information for their own financial gain. In 2024, there were 14 data breaches involving 1 million or more healthcare records.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 13, 2025

Case in Point : In 2019, First American Title Insurance Company experienced a significant data exposure incident, revealing sensitive customer documents due to a vulnerability in their document-sharing application. phishing attacks), and their specific roles in protecting sensitive information.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2024

CISA adds ScienceLogic SL1 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog VMware failed to fully address vCenter Server RCE flaw CVE-2024-38812 Cisco states that data published on cybercrime forum was taken from public-facing DevHub environment Internet Archive was breached twice in a month Unknown threat actors exploit Roundcube Webmail flaw (..)

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

These groups are also shifting toward more human-centric exploits , like social engineering and insider assistance. An insider unknowingly clicking a phishing link or downloading a malicious file could leave the door wide open for attackers.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Expect to see AI-enabled phishing campaigns, deepfake scams, and automated attacks grow in complexity. Defensive AI breakthroughs: Tools that flag phishing attempts and scams more effectively, offering users clearer warnings and peace of mind. What the Practitioners Predict Jake Bernstein, Esq.,

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

But with all the combined information about a person, it paints a very complete picture that insurance companies, advertisers, and even cybercriminals can use to their advantage.

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Trend Micro

JULY 2, 2025

6 Alerts Back Unread All Inside the criminal mind: Trend’s deep dive into cybercrime. close Read report > Cloud security that leads: Centralized, multi-layered protection now named a CNAPP Leader by IDC.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

That’s where cyber insurance may be able to help. For that reason, most experts now recognize that a complete cybersecurity strategy not only includes technological solutions aimed at preventing, detecting, and mitigating attacks, it should also include cyber insurance to help manage the associated financial risks. That’s a 29.1%

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Malwarebytes

JULY 10, 2022

Without cyber insurance , you can expect to pay a dizzying amount of cash. In 2022 alone, the average cost of a data breach for businesses under 1,000 employees was close to $3 million—and these costs are coming from activities that cyber insurers typically cover, such as detecting and responding to the breach. Fixed rate.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

London, July 13, 2023 — Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, today published its latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023. For the insurance industry, working with clients to help them tackle these challenges is vital to ensuring businesses operate in as safe an environment as possible.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Camellia Chan , Co-Founder and CEO, Flexxon Chan In a single month, major breaches hit MGM, DP World Australia, Philippine Health Insurance – just to name a few. Supply-chain attacks, new zero-day attacks, insider risk and improved phishing leads to an onslaught of breaches. IT leadership should be shifting to operational resiliency.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

FYI, the company was acquired by Aviva Insurance in the year 2022 and has over 19 offices across UK and is estimated to be £10 billion worth in assets. The details of over 14,000 employees were sent to 100s of NHS Managers and 24 external accounts creating a possibility of identity thefts and social engineering attacks such as phishing.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Cyber Insurance: US cyber insurance premiums soared by 50% in 2022, reaching $7.2 Generative AI Impact : Generative AI will have a big role in cyber security, especially in areas like email protection and fighting social engineering attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

A phishing campaign employing QR codes targeted a leading energy company in the US, cybersecurity firm Cofense reported. “Beginning in May 2023, Cofense has observed a large phishing campaign utilizing QR codes targeting the Microsoft credentials of users from a wide array of industries.” com (Cloudflare’s Web3 services).

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2021

Researchers explore the insecure world of the subdomain (Source: Can i take your subdomain) Cyber insurance model is broken, consider banning ransomware payments (Source: The Register) How facial recognition solutions can safeguard the hybrid workplace (Source: Help Net Security) Capital One hacker faces fresh charges for 2019 hacking spree (Source: (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Conti ransomware gang is using BazarCall phishing attacks as an initial attack vector to access targeted networks. BazarCall attack, aka call back phishing, is an attack vector that utilizes targeted phishing methodology and was first used by the Ryuk ransomware gang in 2020/2021. Stage Three. Stage Four.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 18, 2022

Recently, a fake Instagram email successfully bypassed Google’s email filters and made it into hundreds of employee inboxes used by a prominent US life insurance company based in New York. Clicking the Verify button here again directs users to the actual phishing page, as you can see below (Source: Armorblox). Source: Armorblox).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 15, 2023

Currently, it appears that the attackers are primarily focusing on companies in manufacturing, wealth management, insurance, and pharmaceuticals sectors. Hopefully, this service will help mitigate the risks associated with the malicious attack, such as phishing and other social engineering attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Threat actors used employees’ publicly-available Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and social engineering techniques to impersonate victims and obtain access to files, healthcare portals, payment information, and websites. million payments. ” reads the alert. Mitigate vulnerabilities related to third-party vendors.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Could be phished credentials. as well as insurance and merchant accounts, to commit insurance fraud and wire fraud. Sascha Fahrbach , cybersecurity evangelist, Fudo Security : Our personal data has immense value to cyber criminals; it is very likely that hackers will now weaponize this data to create advanced phishing attacks.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

Phishing attacks? The Role Of Cybersecurity Insurance In A Predictive Security. Cybersecurity insurance in recent years has become a modern day stopgap for corporations looking to offset their losses for attacks. What Is Not Covered Under Cyber Insurance? Below is a list of adaptive controls needed for cyber insurance.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Phishing attacks are going to become even more sophisticated, since a lot of basic tactics have already been tried this year, and businesses learned to repel those. As such, we anticipate a booming cyber insurance industry as many organizations heed these warnings and seek to guard against ransomware attacks.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Byron: The economic impact of phishing, ransomware, business logic hacking, Business Email Compromise (BEC) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continues to be devastating. Erin: What are some of the most common social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use? Byron: It’s an important risk management tool.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Inova is an actuarial consultancy company, which means they compile statistical analysis and calculate insurance risks and premiums. Document sent to the insurance company by the victim’s lawyer. Inova has been operating since 2012 and has handled thousands of cases since then. Sketch of the accident from the police report.

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SecureList

JUNE 26, 2023

According to a report by the Barracuda cybersecurity company, in 2021, businesses with fewer than 100 employees experienced far more social engineering attacks than larger ones. One of the methods often utilized to hack into employees’ smartphones is so-called “ smishing ” (a combination of SMS and phishing).

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Security experts have warned for years about the possibility of social engineering attacks with deepfakes, and the technology has matured enough for 2023 to see hackers successfully leverage it. Cyber insurance trends in 2023. Fostering workforce security education at all levels reduces risk.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

A prime example is the healthcare sector, where the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates encryption to protect patient health information. A report by Verizon found that organizations that provided security awareness training experienced a 70% decrease in successful phishing attacks.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 23, 2023

The email was sent from what appeared to be a trusted contact of the enterprise to an escrow officer at an insurance company. Mark Parkin of Vulcan Cyber said: "Social engineering attacks like this, originating in email, have only been getting worse over the last few years. The sender's domain name, however, ended in [.cam]

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

Educating users to prevent common phishing attacks and auditing external-facing assets for vulnerabilities can help block LockBits likely tactics. By mid-2024, Scattered Spiders hallmark tactics, including social engineering and SIM-swapping, were evident in RansomHubs double extortion attacks, cementing their collaboration.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

Consider that the average cost for a ransomware attack against a business is about $4,400, and your run of the mill phishing incident weighs in at a much less hefty $500. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing? That is exponentially more expensive than other cyber events. billion in BEC scam-related losses the year before.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Together, they use native English speakers to execute sophisticated social engineering operations, contributing significantly to their newfound dominance. To counter these methods, organizations should prioritize educating users on phishing and social engineering techniques. compared to Q3 2023.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Is it just us, or is phishing everywhere right now? Banks and insurance companies are telling customers to be wary of scam messages. Social engineering techniques, such as phishing, target not the systems but the people using them. A copywriter by trade, Nick looked at phishing messages with his professional eye.

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