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American Insurance firm State Farm victim of credential stuffing attacks

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The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm disclosed a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July. The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm revealed that it was the victim of a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July. The experts detected 8.3

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The FCC imposes $200 million in fines on four US carriers for unlawfully sharing user location data

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.” The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau launched an investigation after Missouri Sheriff Cory Hutcheson misused a “location-finding service” provided by Securus, a communications service provider for correctional facilities, to access the location data of wireless carrier customers without their consent from 2014 to 2017.

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Group-IB and CryptoIns introduce the world’s first insurance against cyber threats for cryptocurrency exchanges

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Group-IB and Swiss insurance broker ASPIS that owns CryptoIns project, have developed the world’s first scoring model for assessing cryptocurrency exchanges. According to CryptoIns analysts, the crypto assets insurance market is expected to reach $7 billion by 2023. Why do crypto exchanges’ users need insurance?

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Dark Overlord hacking crew publishes first batch of confidential 9/11 files

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The Dark Overlord hacking group claims to have stolen a huge trove of documents from the British insurance company Hiscox, Hackers stole “hundreds of thousands of documents,” including tens of thousands files related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In October 2017, the group broke into the celeb London Bridge Plastic Surgery clinic.

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SilverTerrier gang uses COVID-19 lures in BEC attacks against healthcare, government organizations

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SilverTerrier has been active since at least 2014, it is a collective of over hundreds of individual threat actors. A few weeks later, threat actors launched multiple attacks that attempted to exploit the CVE 2017-11882 Office flaw to run a malicious executable. billion in global losses. “Over the past 90 days (Jan.

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Norsk Hydro estimates March cyber attack cost at $50 Million

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I can tell you that potential damages could be very expensive for companies, for example, the transportation giant Maersk announced in 2017 that it would incur hundreds of millions in U.S. The good news for the investors is that the company has a robust cyber insurance in place with recognized insurers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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France data protection agency fines Uber 400k Euros Over 2016 Data Breach

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In November 2017, the Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced that hackers broke into the company database and accessed the personal data (names, email addresses and cellphone numbers) of 57 million of its users, the disconcerting revelation was that the company covered up the hack for more than a year. Pierluigi Paganini.