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Cybersecurity News Round-Up 2024: Top 10 Biggest Stories

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Cybersecurity News Round-Up 2024: Top 10 Biggest Stories

This year has not been quiet for the cybersecurity field. We have seen record-breaking data breaches, huge ransomware payouts, and illuminating studies about the impact of the increasingly complex and ever-evolving threat landscape. As we approach the new year, TechRepublic revisits the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2024. 1.  Midnight Blizzard’s attack on Microsoft In January, Microsoft disclosed that it had been a victim of a nation-state-backed attack beginning in November 2023. The Russian threat actor…

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1.1 Million UK NHS Employee Records Exposed

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1.1 Million UK NHS Employee Records Exposed

Over a million NHS employee records — including email addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses — were exposed online due to a misconfiguration of the low-code website builder Microsoft Power Pages. In September, researchers with the software-as-a-service security platform AppOmni identified a large shared business service provider for the NHS that was allowing unauthorised access to sensitive data through insecure permission settings on Power Pages. Specifically, the permissions on some tables and columns in Power…

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99% of UK Businesses Faced Cyber Attacks in the Last Year

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99% of UK Businesses Faced Cyber Attacks in the Last Year

Nearly all businesses with at least 2,000 employees were breached by cyber attackers in the last 12 months, a new report has found. The biggest risk factor, cited by 46%, was remote and hybrid workers. Dispersed workforces raise the risk of data breaches by elying on unsecured networks and personal devices, and ensuring security protocols across multiple locations while managing access presents significant challenges for IT teams. “Where policies are inconsistent, they can create gaps…

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53% of survey respondents admit to paying over $500,000 ransom

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53% of survey respondents admit to paying over 0,000 ransom

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) security was analyzed in a recent report by Claroty. The findings revealed a significant financial impact, with over a quarter (27%) of organizations reporting a financial impact of $1 million or more from cyberattacks affecting CPS. Several factors contributed to these losses, the most common being lost revenue (selected by 39% of respondents), recovery costs (35%) and employee overtime (33%). Ransomware continues to play a big role in recovery costs, as over…

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Transportation Companies Hit by Cyberattacks Using Lumma Stealer and NetSupport Malware

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Transportation Companies Hit by Cyberattacks Using Lumma Stealer and NetSupport Malware

Sep 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Threat Intelligence Transportation and logistics companies in North America are the target of a new phishing campaign that delivers a variety of information stealers and remote access trojans (RATs). The activity cluster, per Proofpoint, makes use of compromised legitimate email accounts belonging to transportation and shipping companies so as to inject malicious content into existing email conversations. As many as 15 breached email accounts have been identified as used…

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Email Attacks a Problem for National Infrastructure Companies

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Email Attacks a Problem for National Infrastructure Companies

Cyber attackers are repeatedly using malicious emails to infiltrate critical national infrastructure. Up to 80% of CNI companies experienced an email-related security breach in the last year, according to a new report from security solution provider OPSWAT. Compromising CNI, like utilities, transport, telecommunications, and now data centres, can lead to widespread disruption, making it a prime target for cyber attacks. A recent report from Malwarebytes found that the services industry is the worst affected by…

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Security leaders discuss the National Public Data breach

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Security leaders discuss the National Public Data breach

National Public Data, a background checking organization, experienced a breach potentially affecting 2.9 billion individuals. The breach exposed personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, phone numbers, mailing addresses, email addresses and Social Security numbers.  “Organizations rely on the exchange of data for their vitality,” says Clyde Williamson, Product Management, Innovations at Protegrity. “Consumers share their personal identifiable information (PII) like Social Security numbers and emails with the expectation that businesses will protect this data…

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Report Highlights Rising Risks in Sensitive Data Management

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Report Highlights Rising Risks in Sensitive Data Management

The volume of sensitive data that companies are harbouring in non-production environments, like development, testing, analytics, and AI/ML, is rising, according to a new report. Executives are also getting more concerned about protecting it — and feeding it into new AI products is not helping. The “Delphix 2024 State of Data Compliance and Security Report” found that 74% of organisations that handle sensitive data increased the volume kept in non-production, also known as lower, environments…

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National Public Data Breach: 2.7bn Records Leaked on Dark Web

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National Public Data Breach: 2.7bn Records Leaked on Dark Web

In August, a hacker dumped 2.7 billion data records, including social security numbers, on a dark web forum, in one of the biggest breaches in history. The data may have been stolen from background-checking service National Public Data at least four months ago. Each record has a person’s name, mailing address, and SSN, but some also contain other sensitive information, such as names of relatives, according to Bloomberg. How the data was stolen This breach…

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Australian Organisations Experiencing Highest Rate of Data Breaches, Reports Rubrik

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Australian Organisations Experiencing Highest Rate of Data Breaches, Reports Rubrik

Australian organisations have reported the highest rate of data breaches compared with global markets in 2023, according to a new survey. However, they were less likely than their global peers to experience a “significant” cyber attack. Australia’s quicker adoption of technologies, including cloud computing, is part of the story, according to backup and recovery firm Rubrik. The company has urged Australian organisations to review their backups to improve cyber resilience. Approximately 8 in 10 Australian…

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