Adam Levin

AUGUST 15, 2019

Hacker Paige Thomson, main suspect in the recent Capital One data breach, may also be responsible for hacking as many as 30 other companies and organizations. . The Capital One data breach compromised over 144,000 Social Security numbers and a million Canadian Social Insurance numbers from credit card applications.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The disclosure comes almost a year after Citrix acknowledged that digital intruders had broken in by probing its employee accounts for weak passwords. Iranian hackers recently have been blamed for hacking VPN servers around the world in a bid to plant backdoors in large corporate networks.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

The explosion of ransomware and similar cyber incidents along with rising associated costs is convincing a growing number of insurance companies to raise the premiums on their cyber insurance policies or reduce coverage, moves that could further squeeze organizations under siege from hackers. Insurers Assessing Risks.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

That’s where cyber insurance may be able to help. For that reason, most experts now recognize that a complete cybersecurity strategy not only includes technological solutions aimed at preventing, detecting, and mitigating attacks, it should also include cyber insurance to help manage the associated financial risks. That’s a 29.1%

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently laid down the hammer charging and fining four prominent cybersecurity vendors for making misleading claims in connection with the SolarWinds hack. Other companies may continue to rely on hiding the ball, scapegoating and relying on insurance to cover the losses.

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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. That second computer had the ability to manage National Bank customer accounts and their use of ATMs and bank cards. The hackers used hundreds of ATMs across North America to dispense funds from customer accounts. million total.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The data in this story come from a trusted source in the security industry who has visibility into a network of hacked machines that fraudsters in just about every corner of the Internet are using to anonymize their malicious Web traffic. Why go after hotel or airline rewards? ” The Gift Card Gang’s Footprint.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 4, 2019

. “AMCA’s affected system also included credit card or bank account information that was provided by the consumer to AMCA (for those who sought to pay their balance),” the filing reads. AMCA has advised LabCorp that Social Security Numbers and insurance identification information are not stored or maintained for LabCorp consumers.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Non-profit health insurer Point32Health suffered a ransomware attack and has taken systems offline in response to the incident. Non-profit health insurer Point32Health has taken systems offline in response to a ransomware attack that took place on April 17. ” reads the statement published by the insurer.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2024

Related: How weak service accounts factored into SolarWinds hack By comparison, almost nothing has been done to strengthen service accounts – the user IDs and passwords set up to authenticate all the backend, machine-to-machine connections of our digital world. LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2024

CISA adds Fortinet products and Ivanti CSA bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Nation-state actor exploited three Ivanti CSA zero-days Dutch police dismantled dual dark web market ‘Bohemia/Cannabia’ macOS HM Surf flaw in TCC allows bypass Safari privacy settings Iran-linked actors target critical infrastructure organizations (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm disclosed a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July. The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm revealed that it was the victim of a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2025

Threat actors potentially accessed and/or acquired some of customers’ information, including names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account numbers and health insurance information. At this time, it is unclear if the exposed information includes any donor data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2022

When security fails, cyber insurance can become crucial for ensuring continuity. Our reliance on digital technology and the inherited risk is a key driving factor for buying cyber risk insurance. If the technology were to become unavailable, the resulting business impact could be mitigated with cyber insurance.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2024

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. said investigators determined the breach began on Aug.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

AutoZone disclosed a data breach resulting from the hack of their MOVEit Transfer installation. The car parts giant is notifying 184,995 individuals that the massive MOVEit hacking campaign compromised their personal information. million Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America 2.6 million Genworth 2.5 million “U.S.-based

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2019

US DoJ indicted a member of sophisticated China-based hacking group for series of computer intrusions. The group is also responsible for the 2015 Health Insurer Anthem data breach. Member of Sophisticated China-Based Hacking Group Indicted for Series of Computer Intrusions, Including 2015 Data Breach of Health Insurer Anthem Inc.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Group-IB and Swiss insurance broker ASPIS that owns CryptoIns project, have developed the world’s first scoring model for assessing cryptocurrency exchanges. According to CryptoIns analysts, the crypto assets insurance market is expected to reach $7 billion by 2023. Why do crypto exchanges’ users need insurance?

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2024

The threat actors accessed the employee email accounts on May 23 and May 29. AIn response to the incident, the organization blocked the IP address used by the attackers, and forced a password reset on the impacted accounts. The organization disabled the impacted accounts to prevent unauthorized access.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Toyota Financial Services discloses unauthorized activity on systems after the Medusa ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the company. TFS offers various financial products, including auto loans, leases, and insurance solutions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now fresh reports are in that a Chinese sponsored hacking group aka APT has stolen $20 million from US Covid relief funds, and the figure might vary as the probe in still underway on this note. The post Chinese hacking stories trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

Today’s special columnist, Scott Register of Keysight Technologies, says government and industry must come together to secure the nation’s critical infrastructure in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack. That in itself has evolved, as insurers and insured learn just how expensive that fallout can be.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2024

For example, the government estimates that 560,000 fraudulent unemployment insurance claims originated from compromised Internet addresses, resulting in a confirmed fraudulent loss exceeding $5.9 Ten days later, 911 S5 closed up shop, claiming it had been hacked. The prices page for 911 S5, circa July 2022. $28

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2025

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,data breach) At this time, not ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Preliminary analysis made by security experts of AAH revealed hackers accessed the following info, such as IP address, dates and times of scheduled appointments, gist of patient’s medical history, insurance data and proxy account info. million patients. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2025

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,data breach) “We discovered unauthorized access to our network that resulted in the unauthorized access to, or acquisition of, certain files by an unauthorized actor.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 26, 2021

The objective is to reassess the coverage provided by the Federal Cyber Terrorism Risk Insurance Program( TRIP) in the event of cyber-terrorist activities on the IT infrastructure hosted by public and private properties. The post Congress to review Federal Cyber Terrorism Risk Insurance Program appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2024

For instance, organizations can leverage DSPM to detect and catalog personally identifiable information (PII) spread across the organization’s data stores, SaaS services, or multi-cloud accounts. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, DSPM)

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” user account — this one on Verified[.]ru Prior to that, akafitis@gmail.com was used as the email address for the account “ Fitis ,” which was active on Exploit between September 2006 and May 2007.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

For both dormant and existing businesses, the fraudsters attempt to create or modify the target company’s accounts at Dun & Bradstreet. She shared with me a copy of the lease, which included a fraudulent ID and even a vehicle insurance card for a Land Cruiser we got rid of like 15 years ago. ” PHANTOM OFFICES.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. Hackers posing as Coincheck.com employees contacted the company’s customers and requested their account credentials. That spells trouble if you’re the one that gets hacked. What Can Be Done?

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

million users lifted from DriveSure data on the Raidforums hacking forum late last month. The information leaked was prime for exploitation by other threat actors, especially for insurance scams, the researchers said. million DriveSure clients exposed on hacking forum appeared first on SC Media. Hackers published data on 3.2

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Once the number has been transferred, the criminal has control of any accounts that are identified by caller ID (including many financial institutions) as well as any accounts protected by two-factor authentication. It is believed this was the method used to recently hack Jack Dempsey’s Twitter account. . What You Can Do.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication. healthcare organizations. ”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2018

The criminals who hacked into Pune, India-based Cosmos Bank executed their two-pronged heist the following day, sending co-conspirators to fan out and withdraw a total of about $11.5 The Blacksburg bank is now suing its insurance provider for refusing to fully cover the loss. The FBI put out its alert on Friday, Aug.

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