Data Breach Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Also: Health Entities Affected by Massive Data Breach; Identity Trends In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss why communication is vital to be an effective CISO in 2023, how the hack of Florida-based dental insurer MCNA affects nearly 9 million people, and how CyberArk is securing privileged users with a new browser.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2020

Secret Service warned of “massive fraud” against state unemployment insurance programs , noting that false filings from a well-organized Nigerian crime ring could end up costing the states and federal government hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Meanwhile, a number of U.S. Last week, the U.S. ” STATE WEB SITE WOES.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In addition, insurance providers often help facilitate the payments because the amount demanded ends up being less than what the insurer might have to pay to cover the cost of the affected business being sidelined for days or weeks at a time. jurisdiction) and making it a crime to transact with them.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Apple T2 security chip in new MacBooks disconnects Microphone when lid is closed. Google dorks were the root cause of a catastrophic compromise of CIAs communications. Group-IB and CryptoIns introduce the worlds first insurance against cyber threats for cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Leaked data includes 14 folders and 53,555 files divided into the following categories: Passport scans Flight bookings Hotel bookings Email communications between Airlink International Group employees and customers Insurance policy for international travel. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2024

The company launched an investigation into the security breach with the help of external experts and will notify the impacted customers, BleepingComputer first reported. The company pointed out that the incident doesn’t impact social security numbers, health or financial information. 148 in the Fortune 500 in 2022.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2024

In January 2025, European financial and insurance institutions, their business partners and providers, must comply with DORA. In January 2025, financial and insurance institutions in Europe and any organizations that do business with them must comply with the Digital Operation Resilience Act, also known as DORA. Can this be done?

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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. 10 from Vipin Nair , Wipro’s head of communications. “Wipro has a multilayer security system,” the company wrote.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Add to that, there is the risk of penalties and fines (which are not insurable in most jurisdictions) not only under privacy and data protection regulations but also on the basis of cybersecurity regulations that are now proliferating. What should directors do if a cyberattack happens to the company? there could be reputational damage.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Virtually all companies like to say they take their customers’ privacy and security seriously, make it a top priority, blah blah. That’s because very few of the world’s biggest companies list any security executives in their highest ranks. banks) would have this role in their executive leadership team.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2019

-based PerCSoft is a cloud management provider for Digital Dental Record (DDR), which operates an online data backup service called DDS Safe that archives medical records, charts, insurance documents and other personal information for various dental offices across the United States. PercSoft did not respond to requests for comment.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

system-on-chip maker MaxLinear disclosed a security incident, Maze ransomware operators infected some of its computing systems in May. MaxLinear is an American hardware company that provides highly integrated radio-frequency (RF) analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for broadband communications applications.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“In an effort to deliver high quality services to its community, Advocate Aurora Health uses the services of several third-party vendors to measure and evaluate information concerning the trends and preferences of its patients as they use our websites. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Advocate Aurora Health).

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Security Affairs

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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Shortly after Citrix initially disclosed the intrusion in March 2019, a little-known security company Resecurity claimed it had evidence Iranian hackers were responsible, had been in Citrix’s network for years, and had offloaded terabytes of data. Resecurity also presented evidence that it notified Citrix of the breach as early as Dec.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Comm100 is a provider of customer service and communication products that serves over 200,000 businesses. The malicious installer was used to infect organizations in multiple sectors, including the industrial, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, insurance and telecommunications sectors in North America and Europe.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

Until being contacted by this reporter on Monday, the state of Vermont had at least five separate Salesforce Community sites that allowed guest access to sensitive data, including a Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program that exposed the applicant’s full name, Social Security number, address, phone number, email, and bank account number.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2024

IMS specializes in providing business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology (IT) services specifically tailored for the insurance and financial services industries. McCamish may incur additional costs including indemnities or damages/claims, which are indeterminable at this time.” reads the statement sent to the SEC.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The security researcher Dominic Alvieri was one of the first experts to report the announcement published by the initial access broker on Telegram. The seller said to have had access to the chat services used for internal communications, he also claimed to have access to file servers containing 16 terabytes of data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

– Authentication and Security : APIs may require authentication for access control. Here are a few: Security Vulnerabilities : Unmanaged APIs may have security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malicious actors. – Error Handling : Error messages are provided in the response for issue resolution.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2023

So how will this affect chief information security officers (CISOs) and security programs? Given the perennial skills and staffing shortage in security, it’s unlikely that CISOs will be asked to make deep budget or staffing cuts, yet they may not come out of this period unscathed. Demonstrate secure practices to customers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex Holden is founder of Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm. The CLOP members said one tried-and-true method of infecting healthcare providers involved gathering healthcare insurance and payment data to use in submitting requests for a remote consultation on a patient who has cirrhosis of the liver.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 21, 2023

The French Information and Digital Security Experts Club ( CESIN ) has estimated that 54% of French companies were subject to cyberattacks in 2021, [1] while France Assureurs has put cyberattack risks on top of all other risks for the sixth year in a row. [2] 12-10-1 into the French Insurance code. However, in the end, Article L.12-10-1

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

is perhaps better known as the online identity verification service that many states now use to help staunch the loss of billions of dollars in unemployment insurance and pandemic assistance stolen each year by identity thieves. I went with and would encourage others to use the strongest MFA option — a physical Security Key.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City confirmed the security incident and is working to recover from the ransomware attack that impacted its services, including the police department. million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack appeared first on Security Affairs. In May 2023, a ransomware attack hit the IT systems at the City of Dallas , Texas.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

POLONIUM APT focused only on Israeli targets, it launched attacks against more than a dozen organizations in various industries, including engineering, information technology, law, communications, branding and marketing, media, insurance, and social services. The output is saved to a file. ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2022

Clearly, it is crucial that any digital twins (or other complex systems) are secured at the highest level. Access security challenges. Depending on their security maturity, they may also decide to outsource the risk by having a managed service host their digital twin. They need a comprehensive cybersecurity plan.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Below is the list of mitigations recommended by the FBI: Ensure anti-virus and anti-malware is enabled and security protocols are updated regularly and in a timely manner. Conduct regular network security assessments to stay up to date on compliance standards and regulations. Mitigate vulnerabilities related to third-party vendors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In 2022, the ICICI Bank’s resources were named a “critical information infrastructure” by the Indian government – any harm to it can impact national security. However, despite the critical status of bank infrastructure on the national level, the security of crucial data was not ensured. Thanks for your email.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Security experts shared lists of organizations that were infected with the SolarWinds Sunburst backdoor after decoding the DGA mechanism. Security experts started analyzing the DGA mechanism used by threat actors behind the SolarWinds hack to control the Sunburst / Solarigate backdoor and published the list of targeted organizations.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Apodis Pharma is a company that offers a digital supply chain management platform and other software solutions created for pharmacies, healthcare institutions, pharmaceutical laboratories, and health insurance companies. Our follow-up communications were left unanswered as well. The database discovered by CyberNews contains over 1.7

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 10, 2022

Checklist for Getting Cyber Insurance Coverage. The necessity for cyber-insurance coverage. With cyber attacks amounting to a question of when and not if, cyber insurance becomes crucial for ensuring business continuity and mitigating the business impact of attacks – should they occur. Tue, 05/10/2022 - 05:43.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

based cyber intelligence firm Hold Security has been monitoring the communications between and among a businesses ID theft gang apparently operating in Georgia and Florida but targeting businesses throughout the United States. For the past several months, Milwaukee, Wisc. ” PHANTOM OFFICES. . ” PHANTOM OFFICES.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

Prometei has been observed to be active in systems across a variety of industries, including: Finance, Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing, Utilities, Travel, and Construction.” The post Prometei botnet is targeting ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange flaws appeared first on Security Affairs. ” concludes the report.

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