SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The popular trading app Robinhood has just been hit with a major data breach affecting millions of its users. The company says an unauthorized third party socially engineered a customer support employee while talking on the phone, obtaining access to some customer support systems.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

According to this cyber wonderkid, they used social engineering to pull off the hack. This incident is yet another example of how easy it is for malicious threat actors to use social engineering to gain access to an organization's internal systems. Uber's response to being breached. September 16, 2022.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Succession Wealth, a financial wealth management service offering company, has released a press statement that a cyber attack targeted its servers and it can only reveal details after the investigation gets concluded. Prima Facie revealed that hackers accessed no client data in the attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Stanford University, one of the top ranked Universities of the United States and world, has become a victim to a cyber attack leading to data leak or unauthorized access of sensitive information. Details are in that the data leak of students pursuing Economics PH.D

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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. France-based media channels report that the incident could be a state funded attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In a letter sent to members, Christina Salcido, vice president of mission operations for GSOC, confirmed that attackers may have accessed to names, birth dates, home addresses, insurance policy numbers and health history for some members. Experts warn of possible social-engineering-based cyber attacks leveraging the exposed info.

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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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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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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2023

As per the details available to our Cybersecurity Insiders in the Port of Halifax, located in Nova Scotia, the Ports at Montreal and Quebec, both based in province of Quebec, were digitally disrupted by a cyber-attack. Presently, preliminary analysis suggests that there is a data breach in their network.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 23, 2022

What are DDOS attack tools? DDOS attacks are cyber- attacks targeted at rendering certain computers, network systems and servers non-functional. Attackers have to carry out a long series of actions that involve social engineering, data breaches and sometimes even system testing.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2023

MongoDB on Saturday disclosed it is investigating a cyber attack against certain corporate systems. The cyber attack was discovered on December 13, 2023, and led to the exposure of customer account metadata and contact information. .” ” reads the alert published by the company.”

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Jane Frankland

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

When data breaches escalate, cyber-attacks grow more sophisticated, nation states ramp up their digital warfare, and regulations tighten the noose, staying ahead isnt just an optionits your only line of defence. The AI Question AI is on everyones lips and theres no denying that its revolutionising the way we do business.

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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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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A security expert monitoring the currency stealing campaigns digitally says that cyber crooks are stealing smaller amounts from victims, but targeting many of them to make their cash bells ringing. The post Cyber Attacks in UK leading to Silent Stealing appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2024

Keeping these systems up to date and installing the latest security patches can help minimize the frequency and severity of data breaches among organizations. Ransomware: This attack involves criminals holding a network and its precious data hostage until the enterprise pays the demanded amount. Strengthen authentication.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 18, 2023

As data breaches and cyber attacks continue to rise, the traditional method of securing online accounts using passwords is becoming increasingly ineffective. Hackers can easily crack simple and commonly used passwords, or even use social engineering tactics to trick users into giving away their login credentials.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 24, 2023

Today, bad actors are ruthlessly skilled at cracking passwords – whether through phishing attacks, social engineering, brute force, or buying them on the dark web. In fact, according to Verizon’s most recent data breach report, approximately 80 percent of all breaches are caused by phishing and stolen credentials.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. Social engineering scams leverage psychological manipulation to deceive individuals and exploit the victims’ trust.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2023

School districts are constantly being targeted by cyber attacks, leading to data breaches and information misuse. Following basic cybersecurity hygiene by students and staff while sharing the data is also important, as it avoids being targeted by phishing scams or other type of social engineering attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 15, 2023

Australian firm Latitude Financial Services is hitting news headlines as a cyber attack on its servers has led to the data breach of 225,000 customers. Among the stolen data, a majority of the documents are related to driving licenses, employee login details, and such. The company which has over 2.8

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 20, 2024

Impact of cyber attacks The financial toll of cyber incidents can be staggering. The average cost of a data breach ballooned to $4.88 “As cyber threats become more sophisticated, the cost of not investing in cybersecurity training escalates exponentially,” explains Dara Warn, CEO of INE Security.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

A cyberattack crippled the IT infrastructure of the City of Saint John Hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities have their naked photos and videos leaked online Romanians arrested for running underground malware services Threat actor shared a list of 49,577 IPs vulnerable Fortinet VPNs Computer Security and Data Privacy, the perfect alliance (..)

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Now the Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) is sending breach notification letters to tens of thousands of veterans impacted by a recent data breach. What do we know about the VA data breach against veterans? How large was the VA data breach? How do I know if I am part of the VA data breach?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 29, 2022

What are DDOS attack tools? DDOS attacks are cyber- attacks targeted at rendering certain computers, network systems and servers non-functional. Attackers have to carry out a long series of actions that involve social engineering, data breaches and sometimes even system testing.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Quishing, an insidious threat to electric car owners Google fixed actively exploited Android flaw CVE-2024-32896 Discontinued D-Link DIR-846 routers are affected by code execution flaws.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2022

Cyber criminals are also evolving with technology to satisfy their nefarious goals. Attacks are increasing in volume and sophistication and are becoming costlier for all businesses. The IBM Cost of Data Breach 2021 report indicates that data breaches have become more expensive by 10% compared to 2020, amounting to $4.24

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2023

Experts found new MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection flaws The University of Manchester suffered a cyber attack and suspects a data breach Russians charged with hacking Mt. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Compromised logins continue to facilitate cyber attacks at all levels, from phishing ruses to credential stuffing to enabling hackers to probe deep inside of a breached network. Verizon has been doing this very substantive report, in which it culls hard evidence collected in actual data breach investigations, for 12 years.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

More threats were detected on iOS than Android devices; 68% of Australian CISOs expect their organization to suffer a material cyber-attack within the next year. Mobile devices pave the way to launch ransomware attacks on Australian businesses of every scale and domain. Common Trends Among the Australian Mobile Threats.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems. This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Category News, Social Engineering. All of the attacks were carried out with relatively simple phishing and social engineering techniques. So far in September, IHG , Uber , and Rockstar Games have all been victims of major independent cyber attacks. Risk Level. The common theme?

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