Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The charity organization Save the Children International revealed that it was hit by a cyber attack. The BianLian extortion group claims to have stolen 6,8 TB of documents, including International HR data, international personal data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

The year 2020 proved disappointing to many businesses as the lockdown schedules observed across the globe incurred loss to companies in one way or the other. Next in the line will be the online casino industry that lacks adequate measures to mitigate sophisticated cyber risks like DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2021

T-Mobile confirms a breach after threat actors claimed to have obtained records of 100 million of its customers and offered them for sale. T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal information from over 100 million of its US customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2020

” reads the data breach notification published by the company. “At this time, we strongly believe that the incident was the result of a ransomware attack and do not have any evidence that customer or employee data was accessed or exfiltrated, nor do we believe our clients’ networks were impacted.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

In April the information technologies services giant Cognizant Technology suffered a ransomware attack, now it has confirmed also a data breach. This week, Cognizant reported to the Office of the Attorney General of California that intruders were able to exfiltrated “a limited amount of data from Cognizant’s systems.”. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2020

In this post, I decided to share the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from April 05 to April 11, 2020. Below a list of attacks detected this week. April 08 – NASA warns of a significant increase in cyber attacks during COVID19 outbreak. Coronavirus-themed attacks March 15 – March 21, 2020.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2024

” The company is not aware of any impact on Pokémon player data following the cyber attack. In 2020, Nintendo, another co-owner of Pokémon, suffered a data breach , with attackers leaking source code, internal documents, and development tools.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Next time when you are hit by a cyber attack, you better be aware that the UK’s Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) will soon make the information public by posting it on its website. witnessed in the year 2020-21. Wonder how the breached firms will react to such public shaming? . million up from £4.6m

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The security breach was first reported by BleepingComputer that also shared a copy of the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted customers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

This post includes the details of the COVID-19 themed attacks launched from October 1 to December 5, 2020. Below a list of attacks detected between October 1 to December 5, 2020. October 26 – COVID19 vaccine manufacturer suffers a data breach. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, COVID).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

US defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) was hit by a cyber attack, threat actors stole personal information from its email system. US defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) has disclosed a data breach after threat actors hacked their email system. ” concludes the notice.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 15, 2021

Note 3- In March 2020, T mobile data breach exposed customer info of over 2.30 The post Over 100 million customer data stolen in T-Mobile Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. million prepaid customers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A sophisticated cyber attack launched on the visa website of French government has led to a data breach where sensitive info related to applicants such as nationalities, birth dates and passport numbers were exposed to hackers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2021

Mint Mobile, an American Mobile Carrier stated it has become a victim of a cyber attack early last month that ended in a data breach affecting a larger section of its customers. The post Cyber Attack news trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2021

Outsourcing digital security is also more cost-effective as it reduces the risk of future monetary loss from a data breach and lessens the burden on leadership that likely does not have cybersecurity expertise. Data is All-Too Enticing to a Cybercriminal. Unlike encryption, tokenized data is undecipherable and irreversible.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 3, 2021

Universal Health Services (UHS), an American Fortune 500 company that provides healthcare services, recently revealed that it fell victim to a cyberattack in late September 2020 which forced IT networks to be shutdown at multiple hospitals in the US. This is just more proof that cyber risk is a business risk.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. As a leading global content delivery network (CDN), Akamai has a birdseye view of what is coursing through cyber space moment-by-moment. Q: The scale of ‘attacks’ in 2020 is astronomical: 6.3

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

According to a media update released by US Census Bureau, hackers launched a cyber attack on the website database in January 2020 with an intention to access or steal data. The post Citrix Vulnerability leads to Cyber Attack on US Census Database appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Yesterday T-Mobile confirmed a data breach but announced that it was still investigating the extent of the security breach. The company announced to have started a “deep technical review of the situation across our systems to identify the nature of any data that was illegally accessed.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

” According to the company, the attack is part of a multi-year campaign that was the cause of the data breaches disclosed in November 2021, which impacted 1.2 million customers , and March 2020, which exposed data of 28,000 customers. ” concludes the company.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 30, 2023

JD Sports, Britain’s online retailer of branded sportswear, has reportedly become a victim of a cyber attack that leaked information of over 10 million customers. The post Data Breach at Britain JD Sports leaks 10 million customers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

P&N Bank discloses data breach, customer account information, balances exposed. The Australian P&N Bank is notifying its customers a data breach that has exposed personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive account data. pic.twitter.com/BywQtf6qSE — Nick (@vrNicknack) January 15, 2020.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

The FBI has seized the WeLeakInfo.com websites for selling subscriptions to data that were exposed in data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com is a data breach notification service that allows its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right. First, a little background It’s been a little over a year since we first shared our research on the data breach perception problem.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 20, 2020

How do most data breaches occur? Who are the threat actors behind these cyber attacks? And what are key attacker motivations? The 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has the answers. 2020 DBIR cybercrime report and key statistics.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) US agency in charge of secure IT and communication for the White House has disclosed a data breach. The agency sent a data breach notification to its employees last week informing them of a security breach that took place last year between May and July.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

“In light of this, I would urge any customers who have been affected by this breach to be wary of any unexpected communications they might now receive, whether that’s over email, text messages or phone calls. Data breaches continue to be a scourge of enterprises. million – was down 20 percent. million – was down 20 percent.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2021

Dassault Falcon Jet has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal information belonging to current and former employees. In December Dassault, Dassault Falcon Jet (DFJ) was the victim of a cyber attack that may have exposed personal information belonging to current and former employees. ” states the notice.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Cyber insurance premiums have jumped about 12 percent between the beginning of 2018 and the end of 2020. According to a report by credit-rating organization Fitch Ratings, cyber insurance premiums in the United States rose 22 percent year-over-year in 2020, to almost $3 billion. Insurers Assessing Risks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The investigation conducted by News Corporation (News Corp) revealed that attackers remained on its network for two years. In February 2022, the American media and publishing giant News Corp revealed it was the victim of a cyber attack from an advanced persistent threat actor that took place in January 2022.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

In August 2020, the company disclosed a data breach, user information exposed in the incident included email addresses and hashed passwords. We also recommend that you change passwords for any other online services where you may have used the same password.” ” reads the security notice.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2020

KrebsOnSecurity obtained an internal June 20 analysis by the National Fusion Center Association (NFCA), which confirmed the validity of the leaked data. “Additionally, the data dump contains emails and associated attachments,” the alert reads.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

com service that had been previously selling access to data from data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com was a data breach notification service that was allowing its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. ” reads the announcement published by the UK NCA.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

People cited by Bloomberg confirmed that the cyber attack aimed at slowing the agency’s systems down. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyber-attack on its computer system Sunday night during the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. By 2015, Babam was heavily into “carding,” the sale and use of stolen payment card data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

Cybersecurity firm Qualys seems to have suffered a data breach, threat actors allegedly exploited zero-day flaw in their Accellion FTA server. Cybersecurity firm Qualys is the latest victim of a cyber attack, the company was likely hacked by threat actors that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in their Accellion FTA server.

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