Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang has been active since November 2021, the list of its victims is long and includes industrial explosives manufacturer SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA , the US defense contractor NJVC , gas pipeline Creos Luxembourg S.A. , the fashion giant Moncler , the Swissport , NCR , and Western Digital.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

Starting from May 2023, researchers from Cofense discovered a large-scale phishing campaign using QR codes in attacks aimed at stealing the Microsoft credentials of users from multiple industries One of the organizations targeted by hackers is a notable energy company in the US. ” reads Cofense’s report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

Wabtec Corporation is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999. It manufactures products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles, and builds new locomotives up to 6,000 horsepower.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

Now the financial institution is suing its insurance provider for refusing to fully cover the losses. In its lawsuit (PDF), National Bank says it had an insurance policy with Everest National Insurance Company for two types of coverage or “riders” to protect it against cybercrime losses. million total. THE LAWSUIT.

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Insurance Computer and Electronics Phishing Access 199

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.

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Risk Insurance Energy and Utilities Marketing 189

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Optum Solutions is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, a leading health insurance company in the United States. A ransomware attack hit the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum leading to an outage impacting the Change Healthcare payment exchange platform. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.”

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Menlo Security warns that a social engineering campaign is using the EvilProxy phishing kit to target senior executives across a range of industries, including banking and financial services, insurance, property management and real estate, and manufacturing.

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Phishing Financial Services Insurance Manufacturing 119

Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2021

Early this year the group announced that it will no longer attack organizations in the healthcare industry, companies involved in the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, and funeral service organizations. The alert provides technical details and mitigations related to the activity of Darkside ransomware gang. .”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

is an Italian eyewear conglomerate and the world’s largest company in the eyewear industry. As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com.

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IT Governance

JULY 30, 2024

According to Parametrix , an insurance company specialising in Cloud outages, cyber insurance policies likely cover up to 10–20% of losses only. If using encryption adds an extra step to the recovery, is that why security-conscious industries were hit harder than others? Then there’s insurance. of its share price.

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Insurance Risk Encryption Manufacturing 112

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compliance and Legal Risks : In regulated industries, failure to maintain APIs in compliance with industry standards and legal requirements can result in legal and regulatory risks, including fines and legal actions. He has experience with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 implementation and maintenance.

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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 victimology is quite random and opportunistic rather than highly targeted, which makes it even more dangerous and widespread.

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Mining Retail Insurance Manufacturing 248

Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

ICICI Bank’s response Threat to financial accounts Finance and insurance are one of the most targeted industries by cybercriminals. Last year, with a total share of 18% of all cyberattacks, it was the second most targeted industry, following manufacturing.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

A chance meeting – in an elevator, no less – led to Kim veering over to the cybersecurity industry. DataLocker honed its patented approach to manufacturing encrypted portable drives and landed some key military and government clients early on; the company has continued branching out ever since. LW: What’s the market for this?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Known records breached Up to 3,806 organisations with DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) servers Source (New) Healthcare Unknown Unknown >59 million Akumin Source (New) Healthcare USA Yes 5 TB AMCO Proteins Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 4 TB Norton Healthcare Source (New) Healthcare USA Yes 2.5 and Robert W.

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Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 97

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

18, 2023 – Salvador Technologies , the pioneering cyber-attack recovery platform provider for critical infrastructures and industrial organizations, today announced that it has secured $6m in funding. Rehovot, Israel Dec. We are thrilled to announce this round of financing and welcome additional investors to our journey,” added Yevtushenko.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

35 TB of data exfiltrated from Henry Schein, plus ALPHV/BlackCat re-encrypted the newly restored files As we first reported last month , the US healthcare solutions provider Henry Schein announced on 15 October that it had suffered a cyber attack that caused disruption to its manufacturing and distribution businesses.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Fidelity Communications (ISP) NetBios HTTP Backdoor 2020-06-02 fisherbartoninc.com The Fisher Barton Group (Blade Manufacturer) NetBios HTTP Backdoor 2020-05-15 fmtn.ad TE Connectivity (Sensor manufacturer) NetBios HTTP Backdoor 2020-05-13 thx8xb NetBios HTTP Backdoor 2020-06-16 tx.org NetBios HTTP Backdoor 2020-07-15 usd373.org

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this episode of the podcast (#117), we go deep on one of the hottest sectors around: cyber insurance. In the first segment, we talk with Thomas Harvey of the firm RMS about the problem of “silent cyber” risk to insurers and how better modeling of cyber incidents is helping to address that threat. Read the whole entry. »

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Info Source

AUGUST 31, 2022

The dominant theme in Africa’s print industry is currently logistics and supply. Like the critical shortages we have seen in the chip industry, there simply is not enough stock of printers and much print-related equipment. This is a tight industry across the continent. Chris de Beer.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 20, 2019

We talk to Bruce McDonnell of the East West Institute about how insurers are responding. Related Stories Episode 155: Disinformation is a Cyber Weapon and APTs warm to Mobile Malware Podcast Episode 117: Insurance Industry Confronts Silent Cyber Risk, Converged Threats NotPetya Horror Story Highlights Need for Holistic Security.

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Insurance Risk Healthcare Manufacturing 40

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JUNE 4, 2021

Increased scrutiny over connected car and automobile industry data from Chinese regulators, including push towards data localisation. Data localisation of personal information and important data: the regulators expect personal information and important data of the automobile industry to be processed and stored in Mainland China.

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Personal data Compliance Big data Insurance 66

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 26, 2019

Pick any company in any vertical – financial services, government, defense, manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, retailing, travel and hospitality – and you’ll find employees, partners, third-party suppliers and customers all demanding remote access to an expanding menu of apps — using their smartphones and laptops.

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CGI

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Insurers’ digital focus is looking through the wrong ‘lens’. Read any article on digital insurance and it seems to me that it is all about the insurers! This again causes consumer dissatisfaction with the industry as a whole and drives unwanted consumer behaviours at the point of claim. harini.kottees…. Add new comment.

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KnowBe4

MAY 16, 2023

[link] Munich Re: '3X Growth Estimated in Cyber Crime Costs Over the Next 4 Years' As cyber attacks continue to grow in sophistication and frequency, cyber insurers are expecting their market to double in the next two years. I've spent a lot of time here educating you on attack specifics, industry trends, and the impacts felt by attacks.

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Phishing Insurance Passwords Ransomware 104

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Toronto residents’ CERB payments on hold after fraudulent employment insurance claims (700) Kentucky’s unemployment system suffers another breach (unknown) Defence supplier PULAU Corporation says it has been hacked (unknown) American Payroll Association notifying those affected by cyber attack (unknown). Cyber attacks. Hitachi Chemical Co.

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Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Manufacturing 122

OpenText Information Management

MARCH 31, 2025

introduced crucial enhancements that support compliance, security, and productivity across industries. In addition, OpenText Content Management (Extended ECM) for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) provided a single source of truth across the enterprise and supply chain, streamlining manufacturing processes from product design to development.

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Cloud Archiving ECM Compliance 52

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. A major focus of cybersecurity as an industry is its efforts to detect, root out, and respond to potential fraudsters attempting to trick companies and people out of their money, data, or both. Finance and insurance finished a close second at 22.4%. billion in reported losses.

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Energy and Utilities Phishing Blockchain Cybersecurity 121

The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In this spotlight edition* of The Security Ledger Podcast, Steve Hanna of Infineon joins us to talk about the growing risk of cyber attacks on industrial systems and critical infrastructure. Industry 4.0" “Industry 4.0” ”Industrial IoT or Industry 4.0 We talk about how that might be.

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IT Governance

JULY 7, 2021

Patients’ names, dates of birth, addresses, medical record numbers, patient account numbers, medical diagnoses, treatment and/or clinical information, test results, prescription information and health insurance details were all affected. Meanwhile, the researchers found that the most attacked industries are IT, healthcare and manufacturing.

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Phishing Manufacturing Insurance Data breaches 98

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Related: HBO hack spurs cyber insurance market. Irdeto’s suite of products helps set-top box manufacturers protect high-value content; its technology also is used by live sports broadcasters to deter hackers from siphoning off pay-for-view sporting events. Makes sense, though. Here are the big takeaways: Making it too expensive.

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IoT Security Digital transformation Cloud 133

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 29, 2024

Organized by industry analysts KuppingerCole , this flagship event will bring together more than 1,500 delegates from around the world: C-suite IAM leaders, cyber professionals, and experts from enterprise and mid-market organizations.

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B2B Insurance Customer Experience B2C 62

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The idea of walling off the most critical assets in a network is a particularly good fit for critical infrastructure and industrial IoT, in which a wide range of legacy devices simply aren’t able to run traditional EDR software. Also read: How to Implement Microsegmentation. Critical Infrastructure, IIoT a Good Fit.

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Communications IoT Access Marketing 128

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In its 2021 Threat Force Intelligence Index , IBM reported that manufacturing and financial services were the two industries most at risk for attack, making up 23.2% The healthcare industry is a similarly high-value target thanks to the incredibly sensitive personal details they keep on patients and customers.

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Analytics Risk Authentication Financial Services 115

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Professional services USA Yes 11,556 Poder Judicial de Santa Cruz Source (New) Legal Argentina Yes 8,732 J.D.

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Data Privacy Privacy Insurance Security 76

IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

Firm that built NHS Nightingale Hospital hit by cyber attack (unknown) People’s Energy data breach affects every customer (270,000) Exmo crypto exchange halts all withdrawals after cyber attack (unknown) Scottish Environment Protection Agency targeted in a cyber attack (unknown) Hackers breach Israeli insurance company Shirbit (unknown) Jewellers Stuller (..)

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Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Computer and Electronics 116

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

And once a soft target is identified, hackers tend to do campaigns by industry, or organization types.” Eventually, governments will address the risk by beefing up security and purchasing cyber insurance, which go hand in glove. Ransomware attacks against local government entities at some point will run its course.

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Ransomware Government Security Retail 153