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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 00:16:06 +0000
Payroll software provider Apex Human Capital Management suffered a ransomware attack this week that severed payroll management services for hundreds of the company’s customers for nearly three days. Faced with the threat of an extended outage, Apex chose to pay the ransom demand and begin the process of restoring service to customers.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:51:01 +0000
The U.S. government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. But to date, the specifics of exactly how that attack went down and who was hit have remained shrouded in secrecy. This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:33:31 +0000
Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling “catastrophic destruction” at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company’s primary and backup data in the United States. The firm’s founder says he now fears some 18 years’ worth of customer email may be gone forever.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 18:32:37 +0000
Cloud hosting provider Dataresolution.net is struggling to bring its systems back online after suffering a ransomware infestation on Christmas Eve, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company says its systems were hit by the Ryuk ransomware, the same malware strain that crippled printing and delivery operations for multiple major U.S. newspapers over the weekend.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Logan Strain| Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 16:00:00 +0000
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| To get a sense of the grim state of data security today, take a look at this infographic from TruthFinder that explains why 2018 was the year of the data breach tsunami. Categories: Tags: breach remediationdata breachdata breachesidentity theftinfographicpersonally identifiable informationPII |
The post 2018: The year of the data breach tsunami appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2018 17:25:58 +0000
The parent firm of bling retailers Jared and Kay Jewelers has fixed a bug in the Web sites of both companies that exposed the order information for all of their online customers.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 21:16:13 +0000
We don’t yet know the root cause(s) that forced Marriott this week to disclose a four-year-long breach involving the personal and financial information of 500 million guests of its Starwood hotel properties. But anytime we see such a colossal intrusion go undetected for so long, the ultimate cause is usually a failure to adopt the most important principle in cybersecurity defense that applies to both corporations and consumers: Assume you are compromised.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:47:51 +0000
Hospitality giant Marriott today disclosed a massive data breach exposing the personal and financial information on as many as a half billion customers who made reservations at any of its Starwood properties over the past four years.
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