Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

In December 2023, Elliptic and Corvus Insurance published a joint research that revealed the group accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022. Most of the victims are in the manufacturing, engineering and construction, and retail sectors. ” reads the CSA. The average ransom payment was $1.2

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The phishing attacks were aimed at senior executives across various industries, primarily in Banking, Financial, Insurance, Property Management and Real Estate, and Manufacturing sectors. The campaign was observed between July and August, threat actors used the phishing kit ‘ EvilProxy.’

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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. The attack took place from at least September 27, 2022 through the morning of September 29, 2022.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

.” PIONEER KITTEN hackers to date have focused their attacks against entities in North American and Israeli, while targeted sectors include technology, government, defense, healthcare, aviation, media, academic, engineering, consulting and professional services, chemical, manufacturing, financial services, insurance, and retail. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A joint research by Elliptic and Corvus Insurance revealed that the group accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022. ” Most of the victims are in the manufacturing, engineering and construction, and retail sectors. The average ransom payment was $1.2 61,9% of the victims are in the US, 15.8%

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

It manufactures products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles, and builds new locomotives up to 6,000 horsepower. rail and locomotive company Wabtec Corporation disclosed a data breach after it was hit with Lockbit ransomware attack. The company employs approximately 25,000 people and has 50 plants all over the world.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2024

ZeroSevenGroup extracted a huge quantity of information from Toyota’s environments, including network information and credentials, “We have hacked a branch in United States to one of the biggest automotive manufacturer in the world (TOYOTA). We are really glad to share the files with you here for free.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

Other top 4 targeted industries include Manufacturing, Insurance, Technology, and Financial Services seeing 15%, 9%, 7%, and 6% of the campaign traffic respectively.” Experts warn that the Energy sector was a major focus of this campaign, followed by manufacturing, and insurance. ” continues the report.

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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

JULY 21, 2023

Suzuki or otherwise, buying a new vehicle is an intense experience with complicated credit, insurance, documentation, and contracts. Rarely do car manufacturers sell their cars directly. Databases and credentials exposed Suzuki Motor Corporation is the tenth largest car manufacturer worldwide, with a net worth of $17.6

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2024

The suit said those two companies then sold these scores to insurance companies. Insurance companies can use data to see how many times people exceeded a speed limit or obeyed other traffic laws. Some insurance firms ask customers if they want to voluntarily opt-in to such programs, promising lower rates for safer drivers.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

According to the notice published on the website of the OAG on August 07, 2023, exposed personal information includes names, addresses, social security information, health information, and health insurance information. The Dallas City Council has approved a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the ransomware attack.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

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. Luxottica Group S.p.A. ” On October 27th, the company began to notify affected users.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In the video, the REvil representative stated that the most desirable targets for the group were agriculture companies, manufacturers, insurance firms, and law firms. The REvil actor claimed that on average roughly one in three of its victims agrees to pay an extortion fee.

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Dark Reading

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A well-organized email spoofing campaign has been seen targeting financial services, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, and telecom.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

Compromised organizations operate in different business verticals, including manufacturing, wealth management, insurance providers, and pharmaceuticals. The researchers noticed that the path contains the same mutex name as the Babuk ransomware, a circumstance that suggests the malware borrows Babuk’s leaked source code.

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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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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Over the course of his 20+ years of IT and Security, Ross has served in a variety of operations and infosec roles for companies in the manufacturing, healthcare, real estate, business insurance, and technology sectors. He has experience with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 implementation and maintenance.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The government says Russian national Artur Sungatov used LockBit ransomware against victims in manufacturing, logistics, insurance and other companies throughout the United States. The DOJ today unsealed indictments against two Russian men alleged to be active members of LockBit. Ivan Gennadievich Kondratyev , a.k.a.

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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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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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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Malicious Comm100 files have been found scattered throughout North America, and across sectors including tech, healthcare, manufacturing, telecom, insurance, and others.

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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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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2024

The second campaign, called “Eqoop,” can bypass multifactor authentication and is targeting entities in the logistics, finance, petroleum, manufacturing, higher education, and research sectors. The breadth and depth of these breaches signal an alarming escalation in cyber warfare.” LegalQloud targets investment banks as a second focus.”

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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 Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

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. Co-founder Jay took a business trip to South Korea in the fall of 2007. You can pop it on a thumb drive, set the password, and overnight it.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 14, 2014

On October 8, 2014, the Department of Homeland Security reported that over the course of several months, the network of a large critical manufacturing company was compromised. The incident raises some issues for cyber insurance. That the incident occurred over several months suggests that trigger dates for cyber insurance be examined.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Hunton & Williams Insurance Litigation & Counseling partner Lon Berk reports: The recently publicized Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) bug affecting Apple Inc. products raises a question regarding insurance coverage that is likely to become increasingly relevant as “The Internet of Things” expands.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The company’s rapidly expanding customer base includes multi-national manufacturing corporations in the chemical, food, automotive and aerospace industries as well as critical infrastructure organizations, such as national maritime ports, healthcare centers, water and energy providers in multiple geographies.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The arrival of autonomous vehicles in Canada will raise a number of liability-related questions that touch on the areas of owner liability, product liability, and auto insurance. In this post, we discuss the allocation of liability in incidents involving AVs and the future of auto insurance.

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CGI

MAY 27, 2016

Time and tide waits for no man – IoT in Insurance. This old saying could also be applied for what is happening in the insurance market with IoT and that given the drive behind IoT in both the consumer and business markets. For example, car insurance could be varied between theft and fully comprehensive when the Car is not being used.

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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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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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