Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. We launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party cybersecurity specialists, to determine the nature and scope of the event.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2021

To prevent data breaches, you need to correlate events across multiple threat surfaces. The post How Your Organization Can Prevent Data Breaches appeared first on Radware Blog. The post How Your Organization Can Prevent Data Breaches appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Guardian’s Australian staff were targeted in a sophisticated cyber attack that led to the leak of personal information of 140 current and former staff members. The post Australia entities suffer Cyber Attacks and QUAD update 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. Devaluing Data: Take Away Their Profit.

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

With the ever-present threat of data breaches, organizations need to adopt best practices to help prevent breaches and to respond to them when they occur to limit any damage. And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Phishing often serves as the gateway to cyber attacks, opening the door to impactful follow-on activity like malware and ransomware deployment or access to internal networks, ultimately causing substantial financial losses. For organizations, this can result in account compromise, data loss, data breaches, and operational disruption.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 31, 2019

This week it's a combination of more of the same (travel, events and data breaches), as well as more thoughts on the future of HIBP and Cloudflare's role when it comes to nasty content online.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2024

The new attack vectors that spin out of this chase entice cyber adversaries to continually iterate and improve upon tried-and-true cyber attack tools and techniques, with the goal of gaining unauthorized network access. Will we also see a wave of ransomware attacks that follow? Time will tell.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2023

Ferrari disclosed a data breach after receiving a ransom demand from an unnamed extortion group that gained access to some of its IT systems. Ferrari disclosed a data breach after it received a ransom demand from an unnamed extortion group that breached its IT systems. “Ferrari N.V. .”

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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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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

New York Attorney General Letitia James just announced the settlement of a data breach lawsuit between the AG's office and Dunkin' Donuts. According to state investigators, Dunkin' Donuts failed to respond to a series of successful cyber attacks that left tens of thousands of customer's online accounts vulnerable. "The

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2023

Unfortunately, many organizations fail to educate their employees on the importance of cyber hygiene, leaving them vulnerable to phishing scams, malware infections, data breaches, and other cyber attacks. Logging events is the first step in understanding which services or systems are used within an organization.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

First, a little background Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of only eight major categories.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Being able to continuously assess a constantly evolving set of critical attack vectors would allow organizations to demonstrate risk management and insurance companies to reward such diligence with lower premiums, Antani said. In the meantime, businesses continue to come under costly attacks. Our defenses need to evolve the same way.”.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The most important thing to understand about data breaches and cyberattacks is that they are not a singular event. The post Why The Biggest Cyberattacks Happen Slowly appeared first on Radware Blog. The post Why The Biggest Cyberattacks Happen Slowly appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2025

In 2023 alone, there were 725 hacking-related breaches reported in U.S. Healthcare cybersecurity threats and breaches remain the costliest of any industry with the average data breach in a hospital now costing about $10.93 million per incident? The views and claims expressed belong to the issuing organization.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Cyber insurance offers financial protection and support in the event of a cyber attack, data breach, or other cyber-related incidents. Ironically, the security that insurance brings to policyholders stands in contrast to the shifting, dynamic state of the cyber insurance market in general.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Shockingly, 96% of these attacks come through email. Ransomware Attacks: In 2023, a whopping 72.7% The cost of these attacks could hit $265 billion annually by 2031. of organizations faced ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

Energy management and industrial automation firm Schneider Electric suffered a data breach after a Cactus ransomware attack. BleepingComputer first reported the attack that hit the Sustainability Business division of the company on January 17th. The Cactus ransomware relies on multiple legitimate tools (e.g.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 5, 2021

The beverage company recently gave investors an update on data breach recovery and material impacts: "Molson Coors has made substantial progress in restoring its systems following the recent cybersecurity incident. All three of these events will negatively impact first quarter 2021 financial results.".

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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. The things that follow are based on that data set. What are the top 5 causes of data breaches?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Historically, October has always been an important month for the cybersecurity community and a month of major cybersecurity events. How much do they trust industries to keep their sensitive data secure? How do cyber attacks impact them, and how are they protected? Tue, 10/04/2022 - 05:20.

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Joseph Steinberg

AUGUST 5, 2021

First-party insurance, therefore, typically covers the costs of actions needed after a data breach, extortion, ransomware attack, or other hacker malfeasance. First-party insurers may also pay ransomware ransoms, for the costs of notifying customers of a data breach, and for lost business during incident-related downtime.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2024

The organization is remediating and investigating the security breach with the help of cyber security specialists, along with federal, state and local agencies. “OneBlood, the not-for-profit blood center serving much of the southeastern United States is experiencing a ransomware event that is impacting its software system.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 8, 2022

SALT LAKE CITY–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Medical Review Institute of America (“MRIoA”), an organization providing clinical peer reviews, on behalf of some of its health plan, health care provider and other customers, is notifying certain individuals whose information was affected by a recent data security incident.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Attending their annual global event series, SHIFT , in London recently, he redefined the future of business resilience in his keynote address and positioned the concept of continuous business—a ground-breaking state of perpetual availability and robustness which revolves around four pivotal elements: 1.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

At the time, BleepingComputer contacted Schneider Electric which confirmed the data breach. The attack impacted the services of Schneider Electric’s Resource Advisor cloud platform causing outages. Schneider Electric said that other divisions of the company were not impacted by the cyber attack.

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The State of Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

People have become the primary attack vector for cyber attackers around the world. As the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2022 indicates, it is humans rather than technology that now represent the greatest risk to organizations.

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Cytelligence

MARCH 3, 2023

As technology continues to advance, so do the risks of cyber attacks. It has become increasingly important for businesses of all sizes to protect themselves from cyber threats. From small businesses to large corporations, no company is safe from a cyber attack. A secure network starts with a strong password policy.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2025

Other risks featured in the reports top 10 included extreme weather events, state-based armed conflict and societal polarisation. The WEF also published related material to accompany the Global Risks Report, delving more deeply into cyber risk specifically. The subsequent recovery costs exceeded $26 million.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2022

Healthcare providers are opting to pay a ransom in the event of ransomware attacks, instead of recovering it from data backups. The reason is as it is easy and guarantees 100% encrypted data return- Of course, as per their perspective!

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The 2023 update to our research on the perception of cybersecurity incident and data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk of a cybersecurity incident or data breach instead of what feels right. Source: Verizon DBIR [1] Patterns over time in cybersecurity data breaches.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

The platform lists coupons in multiple categories including health, travel, food, services, events. July 19, 2021 – The actor having the alias “ bl4ckt0r ” has published TicketClub Italy database with over 340,957 users for sale and released several meaningful data dumps which may confirm the breach.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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