Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

Experts from BadPackets pointed out that attackers might have exploited the Pulse Secure VPN CVE-2019-11510 to compromise the company. BadPackets reported that SeaChange had a Pulse Secure VPN server ( [link] ) vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510 from April 24, 2019 until March 24, 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 12, 2021

The security breach affected a subsidiary Audi and authorized dealers in the U.S. According to a letter sent by the company to the Maine Attorney General and reported by TechCrunch , the subsidiary company left customer data spanning 2014 to 2019 unsecured online between August 2019 and May 2021. million of its customers.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The company disclosed this security breach this week, data was stored on an unsecured external storage service and they were accessed by an external party. The company pointed out that the data breach did not expose Social Security numbers or financial account information. million Texas drivers appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. Securities and Exchange Commission settled its investigation into the matter after the Fortune 500 company agreed to pay a paltry penalty of less than $500,000. This week, the U.S. billion last year.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

billion in 2019. The “RCM” portion of its name refers to “revenue cycle management,” an industry which tracks profits throughout the life cycle of each patient, including patient registration, insurance and benefit verification, medical treatment documentation, and bill preparation and collection from patients.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Iranian hacker group has been attacking corporate VPNs over the past months, they have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world targeting Pulse Secure , Fortinet , Palo Alto Networks , and Citrix VPNs. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike. Pierluigi Paganini. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MAY 13, 2020

Magellan Health, a for-profit managed health care and insurance firm, was the victim of a ransomware attack. Magellan Health is a for-profit managed health care and insurance firm that ranks 417 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest US corporations by total revenue. Magellan Health Inc. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . According to a joint report published by RiskIQ and FlashPoint in 2019 , some groups are more advanced than others, in particular, the gang tracked as Group 4 appears to be very sophisticated. The malware was completely removed on November 11, 2019.

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MAY 1, 2020

The hackers claim to have compromised the Banco BCR’s network in August 2019, and had the opportunity to exfiltrate its information before encrypting the files. Banco BCR has yet to disclose the security breach. Please vote Security Affairs for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS [link].

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

Specifically, the Company estimates a negative impact from the cyber security issue in September of approximately $100 million to Adjusted Property EBITDAR for the Las Vegas Strip Resorts and Regional Operations, collectively.” For a limited number of customers, Social Security numbers and passport numbers were exposed.

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

Stolen data spans from 2006 and 2019, local media outlets have confirmed their authenticity. “The cybercriminals put up for sale for $ 800 a database of 50 million lines with the data of drivers that were registered in Moscow and the Moscow region from 2006 to 2019. . ” continues the post. Pierluigi Paganini.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

The chief executive of insurance giant Zurich warns that cyber attacks, rather than natural catastrophes, will become uninsurable. Mario Greco, chief executive of insurer giant Zurich, has warned that cyber attacks will become soon “uninsurable.”. What will become uninsurable is going to be cyber,” Mario Greco told the Financial Times.

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MAY 31, 2019

That measure, which went into effect in March 2019 and is considered among the toughest in the nation, requires financial companies to regularly audit and report on how they protect sensitive data, and provides for fines in cases where violations were reckless or willful. No authentication was needed to access the digitized records.

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JUNE 27, 2020

In 2019, Burkov was accused of running the online criminal marketplace, Cardplanet, according to the investigators, the site helped crooks to organize more than $20 million in credit card fraud. The membership also requested a sum of money, normally $5,000, as insurance. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cardplanet).

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

These images include a screenshot of folders on a SeaChange server compromised by the gang, insurance certificates, a driver’s license, and a cover letter for a proposal sent to the Pentagon. BadPackets reported that SeaChange had a Pulse Secure VPN server ( [link] ) vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510 from April 24, 2019 until March 24, 2020.

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OCTOBER 21, 2018

. “The system that was hacked is used by insurance agents and brokers to directly enroll customers. Starting November 1, people can log in to HealthCare.gov, fill out an application, and enroll in a 2019 Marketplace health plan. All other sign-up systems are working.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2019

The internal IT staff has been working with security consultants to restore the operations, but according to them the only way to decrypt the information was to pay the ransom. . On Monday, city officials participating to a rapid meeting unanimously voted to use the city’s insurance to pay a ransom of 65 bitcoins (~$603,000).

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

BEC attacks continue to threaten organizations worldwide, according to the last Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report , the FBI recorded 23,775 BEC attacks in 2019 that resulted in an estimated US$1.77 Please vote Security Affairs for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS [link]. billion in global losses.

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MAY 9, 2019

The group is also responsible for the 2015 Health Insurer Anthem data breach. The US Department of Justice indicted Fujie Wang (32), a member of sophisticated Chinese hacking group that breached at several US companies, including the health insurer Anthem Inc. back in 2015. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission , LabCorp. 1, 2018 and March 30, 2019. AMCA has advised LabCorp that Social Security Numbers and insurance identification information are not stored or maintained for LabCorp consumers.” But today’s disclosure by LabCorp. In a filing today with the U.S. ” ANALYSIS.

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JUNE 5, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Quest revealed that the attackers broke into the web payment portal of the American Medical Collection Agency between August 1, 2018 and March 30, 2019. The security breach has impacted roughly 12 million of Quest Diagnostics ‘ patients and roughly 7.7 A filing with the U.S.

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JUNE 26, 2019

“On Monday June 10th, 2019, the City of Lake City was targeted by a malware attack known as ‘Triple Threat.'” Crooks made a request of a ransom a week after the initial infection, they contacted the Lake City’s insurance provider, the League of Cities, which negotiated a payment of 42 bitcoins.

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MAY 8, 2019

The good news for the customers is that its Secure Asset Fund for Users ( SAFU ) emergency insurance fund will cover the incident in full. “We have discovered a large scale security breach today, May 7, 2019 at 17:15:24 (UTC). . — CZ Binance (@cz_binance) May 8, 2019. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Dear Bitrue Users, First of all, please let us assure you that this situation is under control, 100% of lost funds will be returned to users, and we are reviewing our security measures and policies to ensure this does not happen again. — Bitrue (@BitrueOfficial) June 27, 2019. — Bitrue (@BitrueOfficial) June 27, 2019.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2019

The security experts said Wipro’s customers traced malicious and suspicious network reconnaissance activity back to partner systems that were communicating directly with Wipro’s network. “Wipro has a multilayer security system,” the company wrote. On Friday, Apr. “A total of 44.4 “A total of 44.4

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Exposed data include names, addresses, dates of birth, medical record numbers, health insurance information and diagnosis and treatment details information. Attackers also accessed Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers for some patients. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The hacking campaign has been active since July 2015 and continued until at least February 2019. . According to a recently published CISA’s report , Iranian hackers from an unnamed APT group are employing several known web shells, in attacks on IT, government, healthcare, financial, and insurance organizations across the United States.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with George Wrenn, founder and CEO of CyberSaint Security , a cybersecurity software firm that plays directly in this space. Then you have the folks whose security programs have run out of steam and they’re looking for a way to prove that they’re doing due care,” Wrenn said.

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JUNE 20, 2019

.” Individuals impacted by the data breach were enrolled in the department’s welfare and children services programs at the time of the security incident. The department was hit by a phishing campaign on January 8, 2019, and at least nine employees have been deceived in the attack. ” reads the Associated Press.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Group-IB, has analyzed key recent changes to the global cyberthreat landscape in the “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020” report. According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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MAY 27, 2019

The US real-estate insurance biz, First American Financial, accidentally leaked customers’ highly personal files online, hundreds of millions of documents. The US real-estate insurance company First American Financial Corp. At the time of writing, First American Financial has updated its website and secured the documents.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 6, 2019

On August 2, 2019, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed into law SB 194 (the “Bill”), which requires insurers licensed in the state (“licensees”) to put in place data security programs and report cybersecurity events. Key provisions of the Bill include: Information Security Program. Incident Response Plan.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

The hospital chain hasn’t revealed the amount it has paid to the crooks to decrypt the data, it seems that an insurance covered the cost. “As time goes by, and we determine the full impact of this, we will be very grateful we had cyber insurance in place.” ” continues the post. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

“MIS worked over the weekend with the city’s cybersecurity insurer “to develop a detailed plan to restore and recover systems without spreading the ransomware,” according to a statement from Powell. “We The post The city of Racine was offline following a ransomware attack appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

The cardshop has been operating since at least April 2019, and by March 2021, it had more than 12K user base and over 600K payment card records on sale. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. The total amount deposited on all the accounts was at $18,145.73 ever since. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

The security loophole resulted in millions of private documents being revealed to the public. Researchers found about 435,000 payslips, 300 tax filings, 3,800 insurance payment documents, and 21,000 salary sheets belonging to various companies using the HR platform’s services. adrotate banner=”5″].

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JULY 9, 2021

Tracey Santor is the bond product manager for Travelers , which insures a large number of financial institutions against this type of crime. In 2019, the average amount stolen in a traditional bank robbery was just $1,797, according to the FBI. In nearly all cases, the perpetrators are done in less than five minutes.

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