Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2024

Kootenai Health suffered a data breach impacting over 464,000 patients following a 3AM ransomware attack. Kootenai Health disclosed a data breach impacting over 464,088 patients following the leak of their personal information by the ThreeAM (3AM) ransomware gang. ” reads the data breach notification letter.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Compared to 2023, healthcare providers are facing a higher frequency of ransomware incidents, impacting their ability to deliver essential services and protect sensitive patient data. As of the first three quarters of 2024, there were already 264 ransomware incidents affecting healthcare providers—nearly matching all of 2023's figures.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2024

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Canadian government discloses a data breach after threat actors hacked two of its contractors. “On October 19 th , 2023, Brookfield Global Relocation Services (BGRS) informed the Government of Canada of a breach involving Government of Canada information held by BGRS and SIRVA Canada systems.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2024

Toyota has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor leaked 240GB of data stolen from its infrastructure on a cybercrime forum. Toyota disclosed a data breach after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of data stolen from its systems on a cybercrime forum, BleepingComputer reported.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

Western Digital is notifying its customers of a data breach that exposed their sensitive personal information, the incident took place in March. reads the status page of the company on April 2, 2023. “We On March 26, 2023, Western Digital identified a network security incident involving Western Digital’s systems.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In other news, both LockBit and the Akira ransomware gang, the latter of which has tallied 125 victims since we first began tracking them in April 2023, were confirmed last month to be exploiting a specific zero-day flaw ( CVE-2023-20269 ) in Cisco VPN appliances. Create offsite, offline backups.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Before this sudden increase in attacks, we had been observing an average decrease of 20 attacks a month from the group since April 2023. Data stretching back to March 2022, for example, places their median number of attacks at around 67 a month. Create offsite, offline backups. Don’t get attacked twice.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The average cost of a cybersecurity breach was $4.45 million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. Nonprofits are equally at risk, and often lack cybersecurity measures.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The regulations were most recently updated on November 1, 2023, with phased effective dates starting on December 1, 2023. Update the incident response plan to include procedures such as the internal process for responding to cybersecurity events, recovery from backups, and conducting a root cause analysis after an event.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. They also explained that organizations can protect against the destruction of backups taking offline backups.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Image Source: AI Generated Recent data breaches have exposed sensitive information from millions of customers across healthcare, financial services, and technology sectors. These data breaches highlight significant vulnerabilities in vendor relationships and supply chain security. million per incident in 2023.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

20, 2023 that identity and authentication giant Okta had suffered a breach in its customer support department, Okta said the intrusion allowed hackers to steal sensitive data from fewer than one percent of its 18,000+ customers. When KrebsOnSecurity broke the news on Oct. In a previous disclosure on Nov.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

According to a September 20, 2023 joint advisory from the FBI and the U.S. “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. According to Constella Intelligence , a data breach and threat actor research platform, a user named Semen7907 registered in 2017 on the Russian-language programming forum pawno[.]ru

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. They also explained that organizations can protect against the destruction of backups taking offline backups.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

On February 17, 2023, the attacker infiltrated a system that held information about ongoing investigations, including personally identifiable information (PII) of fugitives, staff, and third parties. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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Javvad Malik

JULY 5, 2024

Oliver’s story is a reminder that behind every data breach, there are real people whose lives are thrown into turmoil. IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report showed the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

About 25% of all data breaches are caused by human error. So, let’s take a look at notable phishing awareness training […] The post Phishing Awareness Training: Best Providers 2023 first appeared on SpinOne. Phishing attacks are one of the main cyber threats involving mistakes by workers.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2023

Between April 2022 and March 2023, France was one of the most attacked countries by ransomware gangs. A few months later, in mid-November, French defense and technology group Thales confirmed a data breach affecting contracts and partnerships in Malaysia and Italy.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2023

Satellite TV giant Dish Network has confirmed that the recent outage was caused by a ransomware attack, it also disclosed a data breach. The American satellite broadcast provider went offline on February 24, 2023, the outage impacted Dish.com, Dish Anywhere app, and many other services owned by the company.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9 Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The group claims to have stolen 5TB of patients’ and employee’s information, backups, PII documents, and more. The gang also published a sample as proof of the stolen data. So far this year, 29 US health systems with 90 hospitals between them have been impacted by #ransomware , and at least 23/29 had data stolen.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 28, 2023

An investigation concluded that at some point between January 16 and February 22, 2023, a cyberattack took place. Certain files in the PurFoods network were encrypted, and investigators also noticed tools present which can be used for data exfiltration. Create offsite, offline backups. Don’t get attacked twice.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Organizations that invest in employee data security training can considerably mitigate the risk of data breaches and minimize the potential consequences of security incidents. Keep these copies on two separate types of media: hard disks, cloud storage , and tape backups.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

CISA adds Microsoft Windows, Zyxel device flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for February 2025 ficed 2 actively exploited bugs Hacking Attackers exploit a new zero-day to hijack Fortinet firewalls Security OpenSSL patched high-severity flaw CVE-2024-12797 Progress Software fixed multiple high-severity (..)

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As the holidays put people closer to family and friends (and ransomware gangs closer to attacking— seriously, watch out for that ), Malwarebytes Labs is sharing some of the brighter moments of 2023 in which ransomware gangs didn’t get what they wanted. Here are four times ransomware gangs failed in 2023. million people.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 20, 2024

In 2023, an astonishing 50 per cent of companies in the UK reported experiencing some form of cybersecurity breach or attack. Today, common cyber threats include phishing, ransomware, and malware attacks, each capable of significantly disrupting operations and compromising sensitive data.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 19, 2023

It will be available for viewing through August 2023. Bottom line, essentially, when it comes to ransomware, as we know, it's pretty well tied to data breaches," McQuiggan said. They're looking to install root kits, escalate privileges, they're deleting backups (which corrupts and affects backups)."

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The gang claims to have stolen a huge amount of sensitive data from the company and threatens to publish it if Boeing does not contact them within the initial deadline (02 Nov, 2023 13:25:39 UTC, later postponed to 10 Nov, 2023). Most recent documents in the leaked data are dated back to October 22.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2023

Organizations must prioritize email security measures that block malicious attachments, educate employees about ransomware threats, and establish robust data backup and recovery processes. Insider threats: Insider threats arise from employees accidentally or intentionally causing security breaches by mishandling sensitive information.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Cybersecurity firm Wiz discovered that the Microsoft AI research division accidentally leaked 38TB of sensitive while publishing a bucket of open-source training data on GitHub. ” Wiz Research Team discovered the repository while scanning the Internet for misconfigured storage containers exposing cloud-hosted data. 5, 2021 Oct.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If Sony has been breached then its customers will be understandably concerned to safeguard their data. With information so thin on the ground it's too early to offer specific advice, but we suggest you read our guide to what you need to know if you're involved in a data breach. Create offsite, offline backups.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Apple has announced three new security features focused on protecting user data in the cloud: iMessage Contact Key Verification, Security Keys for Apple ID, and Advanced Data Protection for iCloud. iMessage Contact Key Verification and Security Keys for Apple ID will be available globally in 2023. 3 new features.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Ohio History Connection (OHC) has posted a breach notification in which it discloses that a ransomware attack successfully encrypted internal data servers. During the attack, the cybercriminals may have had access to names, addresses, and Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of current and former OHC employees (from 2009 to 2023).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Availability & Reliability Cloud storage service outages affect business operations and hinder access to crucial data. Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Make the default data storage settings private. million records exposed.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2023

Following criticism, Google has decided to bring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to its Google Authenticator cloud backups. On April 24, 2023, Google announced an update across both iOS and Android, which added the ability to safely backup the secrets used to generate OTPs to your Google Account.

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