Data Breach Today

JULY 14, 2023

ISMG Summit Speaker Phil Englert of H-ISAC on Emerging Security Healthcare Issues Life sciences firms, including pharmaceutical companies, are facing growing challenges in securing complex sets of sensitive data, including genomic information, said H-ISAC's Phil Englert, one of many high-profile speakers who will discuss industry trends at ISMG's upcoming (..)

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Data Breach Today

MAY 5, 2020

Password-Spraying' Campaigns Aimed at Stealing Research Data, US and UK Authorities Warn Authorities in the U.S. are warning medical institutions, pharmaceutical companies, universities and others about "password-spraying campaigns" by advance persistent threat groups seeking to steal COVID-19 research data.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Prosecutors: Websites Spoofed Pharmaceutical Firms for ID Theft Federal investigators have seized two domains impersonating the pharmaceutical firms Moderna, which has begun shipping a COVID-19 vaccine, and Regeneron, which developed a treatment, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Reported Attempt at Stealing COVID-19 Data Comes in Wake of Global Warnings South Korean intelligence officials allege that North Korean hackers attempted to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment data by hacking the U.S. pharmaceutical firm Pfizer.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Also, the credentials could have been used to gain initial access into corporate networks to deploy ransomware, steal or sabotage internal documents, or gain access to user data. The data was publicly accessible for 5 months, as the leak was first indexed by IoT search engines on January 31st, 2023.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Threat actors attempted data exfiltration, capturing the ntds.dit file. “Researchers from Mandiant for instance observed APT41 targeting US pharmaceutical entities in early 2020, meanwhile APT18 or APT10 have been historically tied to even older breaches affecting this vertical.” ” concludes the report.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 20, 2022

Alert Comes as Other Ransomware Assaults, Data Leaks Plague Medical Providers Federal authorities are alerting healthcare sector entities of threats posed by Russian state-sponsored cyber groups, including some linked to attacks on pharmaceutical and related firms. medical facilities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The cyber espionage activity attacks are aimed at organizations in the satellite, defense, and pharmaceutical sectors. Peach Sandstorm is an Iranian nation-state threat actor who has recently pursued organizations in the satellite, defense, and pharmaceutical sectors around the globe.” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The business of Omiya Kasei is divided into four major areas, manufacturing and designing chemical and industrial products, designing electronic materials, pharmaceutical development, and factory manufacturing. At this time, the ransomware gang has yet to publish samples of the alleged stolen documents.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Noisy 'Peach Sandstorm' Password Spraying Campaign Is Followed by Stealth Iranian state threat actor "Peach Sandstorm" is growing in sophistication, warns Microsoft in an alert about a campaign of password hacking targeting the satellite, defense and pharmaceutical sectors.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The cyber espionage activity attacks are aimed at organizations in the satellite, defense, and pharmaceutical sectors. Peach Sandstorm is an Iranian nation-state threat actor who has recently pursued organizations in the satellite, defense, and pharmaceutical sectors around the globe.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

The data reveals a concerning trend impacting worldwide citizens’ personal and sensitive information, based on Ransomfeed datasets. The industrial and consulting sectors, including pharmaceutical, mechanical, and electronic industries, were among the most targeted in the country.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 11, 2022

New Attack Surface Management Tool Should Help Reach New Clients New CEO Bryan Ware plans to leverage LookingGlass' nascent attack surface management capabilities to capture clients in verticals such as pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and utilities.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Apparently, before a child reaches the age of 13, advertisers will have gathered more 72 million data points on them. I knew I'd seen a metric about this sometime recently, so I went looking for "7,000", which perfectly illustrates how unaware we are of the extent of data collection on all of us. Does it matter?

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

Compliance Expert Thomas Fox on the Role Data Analytics Can Play Incidents of fraud at pharmaceutical giant Novartis that resulted in over $1 billion in fines worldwide might have been avoided if the company's compliance team used data analytics to detect patterns, says Thomas Fox, a compliance evangelist and author.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

Trend Micro also discovered that at least two prominent cybercriminal groups and the Russia-linked APT group Pawn Storm used the botnet. ” reported Trend Micro. “Apart from the EdgeRouter devices, we also found compromised Raspberry Pi and other internet-facing devices in the botnet. ” reported Trend Micro.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With the escalation of cyberattacks on the healthcare sector during the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain partners need to strengthen their security controls and defenses, say Vishwas Gadgil of pharmaceutical firm Merck and Ed Gaudet of the consultancy Censinet. They describe updated guidance on the subject.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

While the pandemic is spreading on a global scale, threat actors continue to target government organizations and entities in the pharmaceutical industry. The links to the documents have been shared by a newly created profile which was used only for the alleged data leak. ” reported the analysis published by Cyble. .

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 30, 2022

Takeda's Head of Security Authentication Discusses the Process and Challenges Markus Kalka, head of security authentication services at Takeda, talks about the challenges of changing identity service providers and shares the experience of consolidating three services into one at his company, a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2024

Pharma company Cencora confirmed the theft of personal and health information following the February 2024 data breach. Pharmaceutical giant Cencora confirmed that the threat actors had access to personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) following the February 2024 cyberattack.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 21, 2023

Learn how this technology revolutionized their workflow and what it mean for the future of the pharmaceutical industry. How Merck Used Bots to Assist With Regulatory Filings in 23 Geographies Discover how Merck, a traditional global pharma giant, achieved efficiency by embracing RPA and bots for regulatory documentation.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 8, 2022

Peter Gankin, head of identity and access management at Takeda, a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical company, shares his views. Peter Gankin of Takeda Shares His Company's Journey What are some challenges of shifting on-premises PAM to the cloud, and how should one go about it?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Since August, FIN11 started targeting organizations in many industries, including defense, energy, finance, healthcare, legal, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, technology, and transportation. “Recently, FIN11 has deployed CLOP ransomware and threatened to publish exfiltrated data to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Targeted sectors include: Automotive Clothing Conglomerates Electronics Engineering General Trading Company Government Industrial Products Managed Service Providers Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Professional Services. The latest campaign has been active since mid-October in 2019 and appears to be still ongoing. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2023

Experts found new MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection flaws The University of Manchester suffered a cyber attack and suspects a data breach Russians charged with hacking Mt. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Threat actors continue to trade critical medical data in the Dark Web while organizations are involved in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cybercrime organizations continue to be very active while pharmaceutical organizations are involved in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine and medicines to cure the infections. ” .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Lockean group used multiple tools for lateral movements, including AdFind , BITSAdmin , and BloodHound , and the RClone utility for data exfiltration. CERT-FR published a detailed report on the activity of the Lockean ransomware gang that has been active since June 2020. ” reads the report published by CERT-FR.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

Malicious Chrome browser extensions were used in a massive surveillance campaign aimed at users working in the financial services, oil and gas, media and entertainment, healthcare, government organizations, and pharmaceuticals. ” reads the analysis published by Awake Security.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 6, 2020

The reader said the apparent culprit was the Snake ransomware , a relatively new strain first detailed earlier this year that is being used to shake down large businesses, holding their IT systems and data hostage in exchange for payment in a digital currency such as bitcoin.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 28, 2020

As cyberthreats to medical research on COVID-19 - and other intellectual property - grow, organzations must take critical steps to prevent the theft of their "innovation capital," says Russell Koste, chief security officer of Alexion Pharmaceuticals.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2022

The freight logs of two major Chinese shipping ports have been leaking data, a problem which if left unresolved could disrupt the supply chain of up to 70,000 tonnes of cargo a day, with potentially serious consequences for international shipping. Source Maritime intelligence.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. “Our telemetry data shows Earth Lusca sending spear phishing emails containing malicious links to one of their targets — a media company.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. “Based on previous knowledge and targeting of the Winnti Group, we assess that this sample was likely used to target Gravity Co., a South Korean video game company.”

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Insights from IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report on the Pharmaceutical Industry shows that while the overall cost has improved, there are clear areas of risk that need to be addressed.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

The ransomware targets South Korean healthcare, industrial, and pharmaceutical companies, its name comes from the name of the author ‘Gwisin’ (ghost in Korean). That includes identifying and stealing sensitive data for use in so-called “double extortion” campaigns.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Both Remcos and NanoCore are used for information gathering, data exfiltration, surveillance, and control of the victims’ computers. . The group focuses on Shipping/Logistics, Manufacturing, Business Services, Pharmaceutical, and Energy entities, among others. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2024

A ransomware group called Dark Angels made headlines this past week when it was revealed the crime group recently received a record $75 million data ransom payment from a Fortune 50 company. ” Most ransomware groups maintain flashy victim leak sites which threaten to publish the target’s stolen data unless a ransom demand is paid.

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