SecureWorld News

APRIL 23, 2025

Phishing accounted for nearly 25% of all breaches. The DBIR breaks down breach trends across industries: Financial and Insurance: Heavily targeted by credential stuffing and phishing; fastest detection rates. Healthcare: Insider threats and error-related breaches dominate. And it's not slowing down."

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Malicious cyberattacks caused the majority of these security incidents, accounting for 73% of all breaches. Unauthorized access or disclosure accounted for another 22%, and the remaining 5% were caused by smaller thefts, losses, or improper disposals. More than 22.8 Another 20.7% were attributed to extortion.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Cyber Insurance: US cyber insurance premiums soared by 50% in 2022, reaching $7.2 Cyber Skills Gap: By 2025, there could be 3.5 million unfilled cyber security jobs, showing a big need for skilled professionals. Soaring Cyber Crime Costs: Cyber crime costs are expected to hit $10.5

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BH Consulting

JULY 17, 2024

One of the largest tech companies, Amazon Web Services, has now made it mandatory for privileged accounts. Security Week reported that Mandiant’s investigation traced the incident back to stolen credentials and found that targeted accounts weren’t using MFA. MFA is seen as a critical control in reducing the risk of account takeovers.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 19, 2024

They address data privacy and the escalating threat of cyberattacks targeting healthcare institutions. The new healthcare cyber regulations will go into effect in October 2025. Specific attention is given to email-based threats, which are responsible for a growing number of security incidents in healthcare.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Cyber Insurance companies used to simply provide lists of potential vendors approved by the insurer, but with the rising costs of breaches, insurers need to control costs. We can also hold them accountable for any mistakes they make and push some of the potential liability in their direction.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 14, 2021

While various sectors in Australia were noted to be particularly targeted, the Avaddon strain has been instrumental in the successful network compromise of the Asian division of the AXA Group , one of the biggest cyber insurance companies in the world. A domino effect?

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Other children had been successfully signed up for an electric company account. The school district’s cyber insurance provided free credit monitoring, but many parents were still puzzled by how to report the problem and what steps they should take next to protect their children.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. Luria said the increasingly common practice in highly regulated industries (such as financial services and healthcare) is to create and implement their own customized database solutions and tie them to their particularized IT compliance requirements. Health data and patient data in the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Specializing in seed and Series A opportunities, the San Francisco-based firm has an extensive consumer, enterprise, and healthcare investments portfolio. Insight’s portfolio goes beyond cybersecurity, serving IT verticals in data, fintech, healthcare, and logistics. New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Redpoint Ventures.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Ransomware attacks increased by 80% year-over-year, accounting for all ransomware payloads observed in the Zscaler cloud. Some industries saw particularly high growth of double-extortion attacks, including healthcare (643%), food service (460%), mining (229%), education (225%), media (200%), and manufacturing (190%). Key Findings.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

“The intent of the notification is to communicate to individuals that their data was compromised, but there is no obligation to provide any insight, or information, on how the breach occurred,” said Corinne Smith, a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act attorney and shareholder of Winstead PC.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. It can shut down your business – in the case of healthcare organizations that can be life-threatening for patients – damage your reputation with customers and employees, and invite further attacks as cybercriminals view your organization as an easy mark. Ransomware facts.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2023

The new NIST framework takes those challenges into account, but as always, it comes down to the humans to adhere to these guiding principles. Timothy Morris, Chief Security Advisor, Tanium: "It is good to see these updates and the expansion of the framework beyond critical infrastructures (banks, energy, healthcare, etc.)

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors. Current cybersecurity trends show that attackers are now targeting critical infrastructure, healthcare, and financial services, leading to massive disruptions.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Attempt access to file and SQL servers with privileged accounts. Some can’t afford not to pay, and some are covered by cyber insurance. Should I get a ransomware cyber insurance policy? Many organizations have used cyber insurance to recover from ransomware attacks.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 9, 2024

The top five countries and regions for the highest average cost of a cyber security breach in 2023 were as follows: the US ($9.4 Uneven Impact on Industries The healthcare sector bears the heaviest burden, with an average cloud data breach cost of $10.10 million), the Middle East ($8.07 million), Canada ($5.13 million), Germany ($4.67

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

This demand leads to the development of cybersecurity predictions which must take into account underlying drivers of the attackers, defenders, and technology where the battles will play out. The highly controversial regulation took effect at the end of 2023 and publicly owned businesses in 2024 are now held accountable for compliance.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In fact, one report shows that business email compromises are 23% of cyber insurance claims. Enforce password changes of network accounts – As a proactive measure in case sensitive data or passwords have been leaked, enforce a password change of all accounts across the board.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 11, 2022

The post A week in security (July 4 – July 10) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Don’t worry though, there's already an insurance policy for that. What is Cyber Liability Insurance? Cyber liability insurance, sometimes known as cyber insurance, is distinct from traditional commercial general liability and property insurance policies.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Deduce is an identity-focused cybersecurity startup with two core solutions: Customer Alerts for protecting users and their data from account takeover and compromise, and Identity Insights for validating legitimate users and stopping fraud. Cowbell Cyber. Also read: Antivirus vs. EPP vs. EDR: How to Secure Your Endpoints.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

However, the rank and file of Conti were in Ukraine, had a different opinion, and decided to speak up against Conti in and in favor of Ukraine in a Twitter account named Conti Leaks. The account owner wrote: “My comments are coming from the bottom of my heart which is breaking over my dear Ukraine and my people. By no means.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Agencies and their suppliers will need to amend their security strategies to account for these new requirements. Regulators who oversee other industries will adopt these requirements for healthcare, financial services, utilities, etc., It will be interesting to see if vendors choose to only deploy changes to their Federal products.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

Sectors like energy, healthcare, transportation, utilities, and financial systems are increasingly at risk because they are integral to national security and daily life. Cyber Insurance Cyber insurance will become an essential component of risk management strategies.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2021

Cybersecurity experts at both Microsoft and SecureWorks said that the hacker group – called Nobelium by Microsoft but which also is known as APT29 – accessed the Constant Contact email marketing account used by the U.S. Microsoft officials said the attack targeted 3,000 email accounts at 150 organizations.

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