Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

Researchers at cybernews.com recently uncovered an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket that contains more than 36,000 documents, including scans of passports, credit cards, and health insurance cards. What data is in the bucket? At the time of discovery, the data bucket contained 7,515 PDF and 25,895 JPG files.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Recent reporting indicates cyber criminals will continue targeting healthcare payment processors through a variety of techniques, such as phishing campaigns and social engineering, to spoof support centers and obtain user access.” Require all accounts with password logins (e.g., ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

According to the investigation conducted by the FBI and Brunswick police, hackers broke into the parish’s email system, likely via a phishing attack. The parish submitted an insurance claim in the attempt of recovering the stolen money. The parish submitted an insurance claim in the attempt of recovering the stolen money.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The second campaign from 2021 to 2022, targeted high-profile victims in the defense, aviation, insurance, and urban development industries in Taiwan, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Ukraine. . The new APT group used spear-phishing emails as an attack vector to deliver Earth Longhzhi’s malware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

Since then, it has conducted 26 targeted attacks on commercial organizations alone, including companies in the fields of construction , finance , consulting , retail , banking , insurance , law ,and travel. As with all subsequent campaigns, the initial compromise vector was a well-written phishing email. Who are you, Mr. Pentester?

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KnowBe4

MAY 16, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #20 | May 16th, 2023 [Foot in the Door] The Q1 2023's Top-Clicked Phishing Scams | INFOGRAPHIC KnowBe4's latest reports on top-clicked phishing email subjects have been released for Q1 2023. Building up your organization's human firewall by fostering a strong security culture is essential to outsmart bad actors.

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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. Anyone could have retrieved passwords and secret tokens for accessing user data, business management tools, or managing websites. We’ve grown to trust our local car sellers. So, what does it all mean?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

For the past three years, the source — we’ll call him “Bill” to preserve his requested anonymity — has been watching one group of threat actors that is mass-testing millions of usernames and passwords against the world’s major email providers each day. ” The Gift Card Gang’s Footprint. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The threat actors obtained the VPN credentials through phishing attacks. “The actors have leveraged privileged accounts to gain access to VMware vCenter Server and reset account passwords [ T1098 ] for ESXi servers in the environment. ” reads the alert. If you use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), secure and monitor it.

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IT Governance

JUNE 15, 2022

Phishing is the most cost-effective and low-tech way to compromise sensitive data. When that happens, organisations must rely on people’s ability to spot the signs of a phishing email. This is a security mechanism that requires people to enter a second piece of information in addition to a password in order to log on.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 | March 28th, 2023 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks Users need to adapt to an evolving threat landscape in which attackers can use AI tools like ChatGPT to craft extremely convincing phishing emails, according to Matthew Tyson at CSO. "A We must ask: 'Is the email expected?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. ” SEPTEMBER. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

Since Carnival was licensed by the Department to sell insurance in NY State, it was treated as a covered entity under the Cybersecurity Regulation. In addition to the monetary penalty of $5 million, NYDFS also accepted Carnival’s surrender of its insurance producer license; thus, Carnival has ceased selling insurance in New York.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Could be phished credentials. as well as insurance and merchant accounts, to commit insurance fraud and wire fraud. Sascha Fahrbach , cybersecurity evangelist, Fudo Security : Our personal data has immense value to cyber criminals; it is very likely that hackers will now weaponize this data to create advanced phishing attacks.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 7, 2020

Want to stay up to date with the latest phishing scams ? Latest PayPal phishing scam goes for more than just your login details. It begins with a standard phishing email, but victims end up handing over financial and personal details in addition to their login credentials. Login vs log in.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2022

Cyber Insurer Provides Help. As Spectra Logic had the foresight to take out cyber insurance , Chubb representatives were professional and helpful, according to Mendoza. Forensic analysis of the breach came to a quick conclusion – a phishing attempt had tricked a user with privileged access into clicking on a malicious link.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 6, 2019

phishing emails every week. There’s plenty of advice on how to spot phishing scams , but without any real-world examples that explain how they work, it can be easy to see the threat as purely theoretical. That’s why we’ve decided to review phishing attacks in practice. Your employees receive an average of 4.8 What’s the lesson?

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IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

If you’re interested in detailed breakdowns of these incidents, why not subscribe to our Weekly Round-up or visit our blog , where we have a dedicated series on phishing scams ? Louis Community College caught out by phishing scam (5,100). Gambling firm Golden Entertainment discloses details of phishing scam (unknown).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 20, 2024

Use Strong, Unique Passwords Weak passwords are easy for hackers to guess or crack, especially if they’re common or reused across multiple sites. When creating passwords, use at least 12 characters, combining uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special symbols.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

Grimes Teaches You Phishing Mitigation Phishing attacks have come a long way from the spray-and-pray emails of just a few decades ago. Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, where he'll share a comprehensive strategy for phishing mitigation. They are prominent techniques used by phishing scammers everywhere.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

Soon, the CEO of security firm Adversa AI had GPT-4 spouting homophobic statements, creating phishing emails, and supporting violence." Blog post with (lots of) links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Users beware.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Gone are the days when criminals had to try a one attack variant at a time, or one username/password combination at a time. A: One of the main drivers is the constant flow of new username and password combinations that are sourced back to data breaches and phishing campaigns. Automation is what is driving the large numbers.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. Phishing complaints were reported over 300,000 times in 2021 to IC3, the only Internet crime to crack 100,000+ complaints. Technological tactics.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Ransomware. See the Top Rootkit Scanners.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2020

Cyber insurance has in some regions encouraged victims to pay as it is cheaper than remediation in some cases. With better audio and video simulations, phishing will move on from email and text to things like Facebook videos. Weak passwords will continue to be exploited as attackers monetise credentials.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Check your cyber insurance policy. Ensure good password hygiene. Ensure passwords are regularly changed and meet minimum length and complexity requirements (e.g. by forced password reset after a set period). Remind staff that they should never use the same passwords for access to business and personal resources.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

MCNA Insurance MCNA Insurance, also known as MCNA Dental, was caught up in a cyber hacking incident last week, in which 112 covered entities were affected. MCNA Insurance later confirmed that 8,923,662 people were affected in the incident and said the breach was a result of a ransomware attack.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. But even when passwords are secure, it’s not enough. Recently, hackers leaked 87,000 Fortinet VPN passwords , mostly from companies who hadn’t yet patched a two-year-old vulnerability. MFA can be hacked.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

Dashlane Password Manager provides companies with everything they need to onboard new employees, manage permissions and monitor security issues all from one place. It needs to be maintained for various types of cyber threats like Ransomware, Malware, Social Engineering, and Phishing. Try it for free on unlimited endpoints for 30 days.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. A single neglected server that was not protected by a dual password scheme was the last line of defense standing between the hacker and the exposed data. Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The compromised data included contact details, national insurance numbers and bank account details, as well as special category data, including ethnic origin, religion, details of any disabilities, sexual orientation and health information.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

According to the settlement agreement, the threat actor obtained access to the EyeMed email account on approximately June 24, 2020 and not only obtained access to six years’ worth of information, but also began sending 2,000 phishing emails on July 1. In total, information for approximately 2.1

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IT Governance

JANUARY 29, 2019

Monster 773 million-record breach list contains plaintext passwords. Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center notifies patients of phishing incident. Kent County Community Mental Health Authority notifies 2,284 patients after phishing attack. WSU employees fall victim to phishing scam, lose paychecks. Another data breach?

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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. In other cases, it’s trivial for anyone to sign up for these services.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Meanwhile, the bastion of password security, LastPass, announced that its systems had been breached – although the organisation is confident that customers’ details remain secure. In total, we identified 112 publicly disclosed security incidents in August, resulting in 97,456,345 compromised records. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Centinela Valley Union High School District notifies employees of W-2 phishing incident. Memorial Hospital at Gulfport phishing incident exposed 30,000 patients’ information. DataCamp notifies users of hack, forces password reset. Francis notifying patients after employees fall for phishing attack. Financial information.

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