Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

The most targeted country in the world: the USA Ransomlooker data shows that the most targeted countries over the past four years are the same top five countries: the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and France. This group primarily focused its attacks on the construction, manufacturing/industrial, and retail industries.

Ransomware 355

Ransomware Manufacturing Retail Insurance 355

Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

.” The CPU will address critical vulnerabilities in Oracle Essbase, Graph Server and Client, Secure Backup, Communications Applications, Communications, Construction and Engineering, Enterprise Manager, Financial Services Applications, Fusion Middleware, Insurance Applications, PeopleSoft, Support Tools, and Utilities Applications.

Communications 313

Communications Financial Services Big data Retail 313

Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

Artificial Intelligence 313

Artificial Intelligence Security Data breaches Ransomware 313

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A data breach suffered by Luxottica has exposed the personal and health information of patients of LensCrafters, Target Optical, and EyeMed. The exposed financial data includes budgets, marketing forecast analysis, and other sensitive data. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Luxottica Group S.p.A.

Data breaches 219

Data breaches Insurance Retail Ransomware 219

Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2021

Overall, fraud accounts for 73% of all online attacks: 56% are scams (fraud that results in the victim voluntarily disclosing sensitive data) and 17% are phishing attacks (theft of bank card details). Insurance companies around the world are now suffering from phishing.

Phishing 330

Phishing Retail Insurance Risk 330

Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2021

The group has been active since 2016, it leverages known malware such as PUNCHTRACK and BADHATCH to infect PoS systems and steal payment card data. The group focuses on organizations in the insurance, retail, technology, and chemical industries in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Italy.

Retail 341

Retail Insurance Cybersecurity Phishing 341

Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Medibank Extortionists Prove Their Hack and Vinomofo Data Turns Up on Forum Australia's data breach debacle expanded on Thursday. Cyber extortionists who attacked Australian health insurer Medibank provided proof of their hack of medical data.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Retail Insurance Sales 130

Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2020

Cybersecurity experts say the raid included the charging of a major carding kingpin thought to be tied to dozens of carding shops and to some of the bigger data breaches targeting western retailers over the past decade. Flint is among the biggest players in the crowded underground market for stolen credit card data, according to a U.S.

Retail 323

Retail Insurance Cybersecurity Data breaches 323

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

was originally launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers who might be eligible for discounts at various retail establishments, such as veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. -based ID.me These days, ID.me Some of the primary and secondary documents requested by ID.me.

Access 364

Access Insurance Authentication Government 364

Threatpost

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Big-box behemoth retailer Costco is offering victims 12 months of credit monitoring, a $1 million insurance reimbursement policy and ID theft recovery services.

Retail 109

Retail Insurance 109

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2020

Part I of this series ended with Ngo in handcuffs after disembarking a flight from his native Vietnam to Guam, where he believed he was going to meet another cybercriminal who’d promised to hook him up with the mother of all consumer data caches. After all, few people know as well as he does how best to exploit access to identity data.

Retail 349

Retail Government Access Insurance 349

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said today it will be transitioning away from requiring biometric data from taxpayers who wish to access their records at the agency’s website. as a condition of receiving state or federal financial assistance, such as unemployment insurance, child tax credit payments, and pandemic assistance funds.

Access 252

Access Authentication Insurance Personal data 252

Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2024

The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling clues suggesting the intrusion was carried out by the same Russian hacking crew that stole of millions of payment card records from big box retailers like Home Depot and Target in the years that followed. state tax database, without naming the state. .”

Sales 298

Sales Retail Insurance IT 298

The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

London, July 13, 2023 — Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, today published its latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023. For the insurance industry, working with clients to help them tackle these challenges is vital to ensuring businesses operate in as safe an environment as possible.

Risk 189

Risk Insurance Energy and Utilities Marketing 189

Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2019

TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. and which used emails with subjects pertaining to finance or urgent concerns on insurance policies. The emails used in these campaigns used subjects pertaining to finance or urgent concerns on insurance policies.” XLS or VBA.DOC macros.”

e-Delivery 256

e-Delivery Insurance Retail Government 256

Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The attackers seek to steal documents that contain commercial secrets and employee personal data. The report includes details about the group’s kill chain discovered by Group-IB’s DFIR specialists , as well as unique data that Group-IB collected during incident response operations related to campaigns attributed to RedCurl.

Cloud 363

Cloud Phishing Analytics Access 363

Schneier on Security

APRIL 12, 2018

Good article about how difficult it is to insure an organization against Internet attacks, and how expensive the insurance is. Companies like retailers, banks, and healthcare providers began seeking out cyberinsurance in the early 2000s, when states first passed data breach notification laws. BoingBoing article.

Insurance 60

Insurance Cybersecurity Data breaches Retail 60

CGI

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The growing importance of dynamic pricing and rating in insurance. On June 20, 2016, CGI held a roundtable discussion on dynamic rating and pricing in the insurance industry that involved nearly all major Dutch insurers. This is in contrast to the traditional cost-plus approach to pricing in the insurance industry.

Insurance 69

Insurance Retail Sales Risk 69

Data Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

On January 18, 2019, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued Circular Letter 2019-1 (the Circular Letter), addressing insurers’ use of external consumer data and information sources in underwriting for life insurance. Unlawful Discrimination.

Insurance 67

Insurance Financial Services Compliance Retail 67

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The threat actor mainly targets insurance, consulting, and construction companies. The architectural features of 5G (compared to 1/2/3/4G), such as superfast data transfers and other advantages of the new technology, are mainly implemented using software rather than hardware platforms. Bank card compromise, carding, and data leaks.

IT 308

IT Military Cybersecurity Phishing 308

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. According to CyberNews , more than 300 million data records were compromised, including 21,000 telephone numbers and 31,000 email addresses. Some payment card data was also exposed.

Data Privacy 100

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 100

erwin

APRIL 11, 2019

Keeping up with new data protection regulations can be difficult, and the latest – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – isn’t the only new data protection regulation organizations should be aware of. A number of high-profile data breaches and scandals have increased public awareness of the issue.

GDPR 100

GDPR Compliance e-Discovery Metadata 100

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. BianLian claims to have exfiltrated 5 TB of data, comprising millions of sensitive documents. Data breached: 5 TB.

Data Privacy 97

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 97

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 14, 2024

2024 Thales Global Data Threat Report: Trends in Financial Services madhav Tue, 10/15/2024 - 05:17 Financial services (FinServ) firms are key players in the global economy. Among these businesses, human error was cited as the leading cause of cloud-based data breaches at 41% (10 points higher than the global number).

Financial Services 62

Financial Services Cloud Compliance Authentication 62

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

Welcome to our new-look list of data breaches and cyber attacks. So, each month, we’ll update this page with the latest figures and links, so be sure to bookmark it to keep an eye out for the latest data breach news. In August 2020, it was embroiled in a data breach affecting more than 800,000 EyeMed and Lenscrafters patients.

Data breaches 121

Data breaches Insurance Personal data Ransomware 121

IT Governance

JUNE 30, 2022

Welcome to our June 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. million) Brazilian retailer Fast Shop confirms cyber attack (unknown) ADM Associates announces security incident (unknown) Guardian Fueling Technologies has been hacked (unknown) Pape-Dawson Engineers, Inc. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

Data breaches 136

Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Blockchain 136

Collibra

MARCH 4, 2020

The data is in, and we all get it: It’s a strategic asset. We’re almost at the point where data can be officially listed, even quantified, on the balance sheet as a competitive advantage. . Companies use data to achieve digital transformation. Their initial role had a lot to with ensuring compliance and securing all data assets.

Marketing 105

Marketing Insurance Analytics Digital transformation 105

John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 22, 2018

A theme of my writing over the past ten or so years has been the role of data in society. No, this post is about the business of health insurance. Last week ProPublica published a story titled Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates. Before, and after?

Insurance 80

Insurance Personal data Education Government 80

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

Welcome to our May 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breaches. We identified 77 security incidents during the month, resulting in 49,782,129 compromised records. You can find the full list below, with incidents affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 126

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Education 126

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Yet, considering how much marketing (think consumer/customer data) and human resources (think employee personal/financial data) are impacted by your average data breach, it’s somewhat remarkable that more companies don’t list their chief security personnel among their top ranks. .” Source: Accenture.

Security 257

Security Marketing Cybersecurity Data breaches 257

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Big Yellow and Avira weren’t the only established brands cashing in on crypto hype as a way to appeal to a broader audience: The venerable electronics retailer RadioShack wasted no time in announcing plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

Passwords 296

Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Access 296

Adam Levin

APRIL 10, 2019

A security analysis of 30 major banking and financial apps has shown major security holes and a lax approach to protecting user data. Among the most alarming finding was the practice of embedding and hard-coding of private certificates and API keys into banking apps.

Retail 74

Retail Security Insurance Encryption 74

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Welcome to our November 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. Elsewhere, we assess data breaches at a cancer research facility and the US retailer Bed Bath & Beyond.

Phishing 118

Phishing Retail Data breaches Insurance 118

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

There are dozens of private companies that specialize in providing consumer credit reports and scores to specific industries, including real estate brokers, landlords, insurers, debt buyers, employers, banks, casinos and retail stores. My guess is the vast majority of Americans have never heard of most of these companies.

Access 250

Access Security Military Retail 250

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. One cannot overstate the importance of data privacy for businesses today. The app heavily encrypts all user financial data.

Data Privacy 78

Data Privacy Privacy GDPR Personal data 78

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. Now toss in the fact that digital transformation is redoubling software development and data handling complexities.

Digital transformation 193

Digital transformation Marketing Analytics Risk 193

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Cybersecurity laws and regulations encompass a range of legal requirements designed to protect information systems and data from cyber threats. These laws aim to establish standards for securing data, ensuring privacy, and mitigating risks associated with digital information. What are Federal Cybersecurity Regulations?

Cybersecurity 121

Cybersecurity Computer and Electronics Compliance Privacy 121