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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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Data breach victims increased by 490% since the first half of 2023

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Data breach victims increased by 490% since the first half of 2023

The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has released a report analyzing H1 data breach incidents for 2024. According to the report, there was a 490% rise in data breach victims in H1 of 2024 compared to H1 of 2023. Yet, Q2 had 732 publicly reported data breaches, which represents a 12% decrease from Q1.  Security leaders weigh in  Stephen Kowski, Field CTO at SlashNext:  “The surge in breach victims is likely due to several large-scale…

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Security leaders respond to the AT&T data breach

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Security leaders respond to the AT&T data breach

On July 12, 2024, AT&T announced the records of calls and text messages of almost all AT&T cellular customers were compromised via a third-party cloud platform. According to a statement made by AT&T, the compromised data does not contain the content of the calls and text messages. It also does not contain personally identifiable information such as Social Security numbers, dates of birth or customer names. At this time, AT&T states there is no indication…

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AT&T Hack Exposed ‘Nearly All’ Customer Phone Numbers

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AT&T Hack Exposed ‘Nearly All’ Customer Phone Numbers

AT&T disclosed today that data from “nearly all” of its customers from May 1, 2022 to October 31, 2022 and on January 2, 2023 was exfiltrated to a third-party platform in April 2024. Customers whose data was exposed will be informed. AT&T said the access point through which the cyberattack was conducted has been secured, and the data is no longer available. Threat actor accessed phone numbers and call durations According to AT&T, the threat…

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