Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2020

When a reliable method of scamming money out of people, companies or governments becomes widely known, underground forums and chat networks tend to light up with activity as more fraudsters pile on to claim their share. Agari said this group has been filing hundreds of successful claims, all effectively using the same email address.

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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. Group-IB , a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has analyzed key recent changes to the global cyberthreat landscape.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2019

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. “What’s the takeaway? . “ There’s five layers to go.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “This trend is believed to be a response to the encouragement from ALPHV Blackcat administrators, who urged affiliates to focus their efforts on hospitals following operational actions against the group and its infrastructure in early December 2023.” reads the press release. “To

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

Greylock McKinnon Associates (GMA) provides expert economic analysis and litigation support to a diverse group of domestic and international clients in the legal profession, the business community, and government agencies, including the Department of Justice (DoJ).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The ransomware group claimed the theft of 2.6 Texas Tech University is notifying individuals whose information may be involved in this incident and out of an abundance of caution in offering them access to complimentary credit monitoring services. terabytes of data, including patient data, medical research, and a large set of SQL databases.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In a press statement, the Ministry said that systems have been restored to their backups including systems at Kuwait Cancer Control Center and administrative systems, like the health insurance and expatriate check-up systems.” At this time, no ransomware group has taken credit for the cyber incident.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

. “The defendants at one time possessed a target list of over 1,800 online accounts, including accounts belonging to organizations and companies involved in aerospace or satellite technology and international government organizations in Australia, Israel, Singapore, the United States, and the United Kingdom.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2023

The compromised information varied for each person and could have included: name, contact information, Social Security Number, date of birth, health information, insurance information, and medical identification numbers. On May 25, 2023, the AlphV/ BlackCat group claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

MCNA Dental is one of the largest US dental care and oral health insurance providers. The security breach exposed the personal information of current or former provider of dental/orthodontic care to members of certain state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs, for which MCNA provides dental benefits and services.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A BlackCat ransomware attack hit UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum causing an outage impacting the Change Healthcare payment exchange platform. A ransomware attack hit the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum leading to an outage impacting the Change Healthcare payment exchange platform. ” reads the Reuters.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. The company has operations in 25 countries, more than 4,000 employees, and billions in revenue annually.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The Government organization disclosed a data breach that impacted about 1.3 The software vulnerability was exploited by a group of cybercriminals and allowed them to access and download files belonging to certain agencies in the State of Maine between May 28, 2023, and May 29, 2023.” million individuals. million Genworth 2.5

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“Sources said the county is in the process of paying the $500,000 ransom as it’s insured for such attacks.” Early November, the DoppelPaymer ransomware disrupted IT operations in the territory of Nunavut (Canada), all government services requiring access to electronic data were impacted. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

The SEC says First American derives nearly 92 percent of its revenue from its title insurance segment, earning $7.1 Title insurance protects homebuyers from the prospect of someone contesting their legitimacy as the new homeowner. Title insurance is not mandated by law, but most lenders require it as part of any mortgage transaction.

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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. ” Read the full ProPublica piece here. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

MILES/CBS NEWS TEXAS The Royal ransomware group is behind the attack and threatens to publish stolen data if the City will not meet its ransom demand. Once obtained access to the City’s network, the group performed reconnaissance and information-gathering activities using legitimate third-party remote management tools.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

In some cases, attackers are even leveraging the threat of regulatory actions or causing cyber insurance policies to be rendered moot by reporting lapses in security on the part of the victim to regulators and insurers. In fact, the cost to victims from ransomware attacks is estimated to reach $265 billion (USD) annually by 2031.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2019

On July 6, a ransomware attack brought down government computer systems at La Porte County, Indiana, finally, the county decided to pay $130,000 ransom. For at least three days, government systems were not working forcing the County officials to evaluate the option to pay the ransom. ” reported the WSBT.

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Collibra

MARCH 26, 2025

This is why we offer certified Data Citizen User Groups in the Collibra Community to keep the conversation and inspiration going among all of you our customers. What are Data Citizens User Groups? Our Data Citizen User Groups are interactive, real-time opportunities for our customers to connect.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Cyber Insurance: US cyber insurance premiums soared by 50% in 2022, reaching $7.2 Cyber Security Spending: Global cyber security spending is projected to reach $172 billion in 2024, reflecting the increasing prioritization of cyber security by businesses and governments worldwide. million, up 15% in three years.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to the 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. A web shell is a code, often written in typical web development programming languages (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Immediately after detecting the intrusion, the company launched an investigation with the help of leading third-party cybersecurity experts and is also coordinating with its insurers. The investigation is still ongoing and aims at determining the scope of the incident. ” reads the article published by CNN.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

CNA Financial (March 2021) – CNA Financial, one of the largest insurance companies in the US, reportedly paid a $40 ransom to restore access to its files following a ransomware attack that took place in March.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 23, 2019

federal government shutdown is having a tangible, negative impact on cybercrime investigations, according to interviews with federal law enforcement investigators and a report issued this week by a group representing the interests of FBI agents. The shutdown may impact government and civilian cybersecurity efforts in other ways.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Head Mare hacktivist group targets Russia and Belarus Zyxel fixed critical OS command injection flaw in multiple routers VMware fixed a code execution flaw in Fusion hypervisor U.S. Replace them!

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IT Governance

AUGUST 25, 2022

Lloyd’s of London has announced that its insurance policies will no longer cover losses resulting from certain nation-state cyber attacks or acts of war. In a memo sent to the organisation’s insurance syndicates , Underwriting Director Tony Chaudhry said that Lloyd’s remains “strongly supportive” of policies that cover cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

China-linked cyber espionage group APT20 has been bypassing two-factor authentication (2FA) in recent attacks, cyber-security firm Fox-IT warns. Security experts from cyber-security firm Fox-IT warns of a new wave of attacks, tracked as Operation Wocao, carried out by China-linked cyber espionage group APT20 that has been bypassing 2FA.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2022

The researchers at cybersecurity firm AdbIntel state that currently at least three autonomous threat groups are adopting and independently developing their own targeted phishing tactics derived from the call back phishing methodology. The third iteration of the BazarCall group was observed in late June 20 and goes by the name of Roy/Zeon.

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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. ThreatLabz found Dark Angels has conducted some of the largest ransomware attacks to date, and yet little is known about the group.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2021

Group-IB detected an unconventional post on several carding forums containing links to a file containing 1 million compromised cards. On August 2, Group-IB Threat Intelligence & Attribution system detected an unconventional post on several carding forums. It’s especially unusual for a previously unknown market player.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

authorities have seized the darknet websites run by LockBit , a prolific and destructive ransomware group that has claimed more than 2,000 victims worldwide and extorted over $120 million in payments. This prompted several XSS members to start posting memes taunting the group about the security failure. ” one denizen quipped.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

An APT group tracked as Polonium employed custom backdoors in attacks aimed at Israelian entities since at least September 2021. This circumstance is confirmed by revelations that emerged in the last couple of years that the Iranian government is using cyber mercenaries for its operations. ” reads the report published by ESET.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

based supplier of identity access management (IAM) systems, which recently announced a partnership with Omada, a Copenhagen-based provider of identity governance administration (IGA) solutions. Governance and attestation quickly became a very big deal. Compliance became a huge driver for governance and attestation,” Curcio said. “It

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2020

The database seems to belong to members of the Student Advocates Group, which an FTC press release named as a student loan debt relief scheme that “bilked millions out of consumers by charging illegal upfront fees and falsely promising to lower or even eliminate consumers’ loan payments or balances.”. What data is in the bucket?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

T-Mobile confirms Lapsus$ had access its systems Are you using Java 15/16/17 or 18 in production? Patch them now!

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2021

One fraud-fighting group is intercepting hundreds to thousands of these per day. For the past year, BWare has maintained contact with an insider from the criminal group that’s been sending daily lists of would-be victims who are to receive counterfeit checks printed using the real bank account information of legitimate companies.

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