A Seattle, Washington-based community health center operator is facing a class action lawsuit in the aftermath of a data exfiltration incident reported last year as affecting more than 650,000 individuals. The breach also involved data allegedly found posted for sale on the Marketo data leak site.
In 2021, there was a spike in cybercrime, and the focus changed for threat actors from several countries, particularly Russia and China. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike provides an overview of the changes, analyzes the takedown of Russian threat actor REvil and adds to its list of adversaries.
If the ransomware threat is inevitable, then what can enterprises do to harden their infrastructures, ensure detection capabilities and devise a proactive, practiced response? Josh Zelonis of Palo Alto Networks shares insights and discusses the emerging role of XDR in ransomware defense.
The Department of Justice has named Eun Young Choi as its first National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team's director, and the FBI formed the Virtual Asset Exploitation Unit to assist with blockchain analysis for theft and extortion crimes that have connections to crypto.
Healthcare entities should implement a "proactive preparedness" approach for protecting their electronic health record systems, which are an increasingly attractive target for cyberattacks and other breaches, federal authorities warn.
Botnet attacks have affected multiple organizations recently, resulting in web scraping as well as theft of financial information. They include a massive bot attack to scrape data from a job listing site and a TrickBot malware attack targeting 60 high-profile companies.
Are data breaches getting worse? So far for 2021, the number of records that were reportedly exposed declined slightly, while the total number of reported data breaches increased both in the U.S. and globally.
In the latest weekly update, four ISMG editors discuss how ransomware attacks got worse in 2021, the backlash from privacy experts sparked by the IRS' decision - now changed - to use facial recognition technology on American taxpayers, and why cybersecurity fosters competitive advantage.
According to a new threat report from Expel, business email compromise should now be viewed as "public enemy #1." Jonathan Hencinski of Expel is joined by Theodore Peterson of Datasite to support that claim and discuss how best to strategize against these schemes.
Budget constraints are the reason many enterprises have not been able to move to the next stage in applying data analytics for fraud and risk management, says Andi McNeal, director of research at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Thursday held a daylong hearing on cybersecurity threats posed by Xi Jinping-led China, including the nation's expansive cyberespionage and disinformation capabilities, along with its technical prowess in cyberwarfare.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of takedowns of multiple Russian-language cybercrime markets and communities by Russian authorities. It also describes the role of cryptocurrencies in the banking sector and how the identity market will evolve in 2022.
Cyberattacks in the aviation sector over the past several years have been tied to a single advanced persistent threat group named TA2541, which - since at least 2017 - has consistently used more than a dozen remote access Trojans to control compromised machines, according to a report from Proofpoint.
The ability to evade detection by traditional endpoint detection tools, easy availability of valid credentials, access to code vulnerabilities, increased persistence and ease of lateral movement are causing an increasing number of threat actors to choose malware-free options, CrowdStrike says.
Two recent hacking breaches affecting hundreds of thousands of individuals - one reported by a firm that provides services to health plans and the other by a government contractor - serve as the latest reminders of the risks involving vendors that handle sensitive personal data.
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