Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City experts believe that the group specifically targeted a prioritized list of servers using legitimate Microsoft system administrative tools. Early on the morning of Wednesday, May 03, 2023, the group started executing the ransomware on the City of Dallas. The Dallas City Council has approved a budget of $8.5

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Ransomware Surveillance Healthcare Accountability 109

SiteLock

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The audit process helps the customer ascertain that the provider has implemented and follows all the necessary security procedures, including those that specify rules for interacting with contractors and controlling the work of system administrators.

System Administration 52

System Administration Insurance Penetration Testing Social Engineering 52

Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

Two months after fully restoring its systems, CNA Financial, the leading US insurance company that was attacked by a group using Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware, issued a legal notice of an information security incident to the Consumer Protection Bureau in New Hampshire.

Ransomware 93

Ransomware Unstructured Data Accountability Consumer Protection 93

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Some of the credentials belonged to company leadership, system administrators, and other employees with privileged access.". Establish MFA for creating and updating account information, especially for bank, insurance, and trading accounts, as well as for providing initial account access to financial aggregator services."

Banking 58

Banking Passwords Accountability DDOS 58

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

A lot of business today rely on using these basic tools on a daily basis, for HR to review resumes, to process insurance claims, to open up financial tables, all those kinds of things,” Grafi noted. Employees today receive mixed messages. This then drops a PowerShell script into the memory of the host computer.

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Malware CSO System Administration Financial Services 100

SC Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

For example, amid the heightened COVID-19-related cyberattacks in the initial months of the pandemic, the HHS Office for Civil Rights released a list of privacy and security resources to help providers bolster security defenses and prevent violations of the the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Healthcare 68

Healthcare Cybersecurity CISO Cyber threats 68

Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Always keep your eyes open to control-rights of the senior IT managers or systems administrators with the authority to configure servers, firewalls, cloud storage, and file-sharing (or another network privilege).

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