Cyberattacks: Page 23

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    5 cybersecurity trends to watch in 2024

    Preventative measures remain woefully unmet, the scourge of ransomware is as bad as its ever been, and a wave of new incident reporting and compliance regulations are taking hold. Buckle up, 2024 is here.

    By , • Jan. 10, 2024
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    Fidelity National Financial cyberattack impacts up to 1.3M customers

    While data was stolen and the company faces lawsuits, it does not consider the attack material to the business.

    By • Jan. 10, 2024
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    DDoS attack traffic surged in 2023, Cloudflare finds

    Elevated malicious DDoS activity coincided with mass exploits of the novel zero-day vulnerability HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, which threat actors used to launch DDoS attacks last year.

    By • Jan. 9, 2024
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    LoanDepot caught in mortgage industry cyberattack spree

    The non-bank mortgage lender is the fourth major real estate industry organization hit by a cyberattack since late October.

    By • Jan. 8, 2024
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    Merck reaches settlement in closely watched NotPetya insurance case

    The pharmaceutical giant previously won a New Jersey court decision involving $700 million of a $1.4 billion dispute over war-exclusions language related to the attack.

    By • Jan. 8, 2024
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    Extent of a cyber specialist law firm’s data breach grows

    A two-week long breach exposed a trove of highly sensitive information on Orrick’s clients. The pool of victims quadrupled between its July and December disclosures.

    By • Jan. 5, 2024
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    Xerox discloses a subsidiary’s breach following ransomware claim of data theft

    Inc, a relatively new threat group, previously claimed to have stolen company data.

    By • Jan. 3, 2024
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    First American Financial confirms threat actors stole and encrypted data

    The title insurance giant said the cyberattack is contained, but it is still working to determine whether the incident will have a material impact.

    By • Updated Jan. 4, 2024
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    Fleeting fake delivery phishing campaign targets last-minute shoppers

    Text messages disguised as urgent or failed delivery notifications can create tension between impersonated delivery service companies and legitimate customers.

    By • Dec. 22, 2023
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    First American Financial takes systems offline after cyber incident

    The incident comes just weeks after the title insurance firm reached a $1 million settlement with New York state financial regulators for a massive 2019 data breach that impacted 885 million customer records.

    By • Updated Dec. 27, 2023
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    Notorious ransomware group tussles with law enforcement, regenerates after takedown

    The on-again, off-again appearance of AlphV’s threats on the dark web underscore the difficulties law enforcement agencies confront in their disruption efforts.

    By • Dec. 20, 2023
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    US leads AlphV ransomware infrastructure takedown

    Law enforcement released a decryptor for the prolific threat group and ransomware affiliate service behind some of 2023’s most high-profile attacks.

    By • Dec. 19, 2023
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    Comcast’s Xfinity discloses massive data breach linked to CitrixBleed vulnerability

    The breach, involving 35.9 million customers, took place just a week after Citrix released a patch for a critical flaw.

    By • Dec. 19, 2023
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    Cyberattack on VF Corp. disrupts order fulfillment

    The attack on the company last week, which owns Vans and The North Face, also resulted in data theft. 

    By Laurel Deppen • Dec. 18, 2023
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    Mr. Cooper cyberattack hits every current — and former — customer

    The mortgage servicer expects vendor expenses related to its response and recovery to reach $25 million this quarter. Almost 14.7 million people were impacted.

    By • Dec. 18, 2023
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    State-linked cyber actors behind SolarWinds plant seeds for new malicious campaign

    U.S. authorities are raising alarms that the 2020 Sunburst attack threat actors are exploiting a CVE in JetBrains TeamCity in preparation for future supply chain compromises.

    By • Dec. 15, 2023
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    Kraft Heinz probes ransomware attack claim

    The food and beverage company attributed the potential attack to a decommissioned marketing site and said internal systems are operating normally.

    By • Dec. 15, 2023
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    Credit unions recover from outages caused by third-party ransomware attack

    While Ongoing Operations said some of its data was compromised and notified impacted customers, credit unions have yet to disclose damages downstream.

    By • Dec. 14, 2023
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    Check Point Software in SEC settlement talks in connection with SolarWinds probe

    The cybersecurity firm provided documents and other information related to the 2020 supply chain hack of the SolarWinds Orion platform.

    By • Dec. 13, 2023
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    Henry Schein says 29K people affected in September cyberattack

    The ransomware group AlphV/BlackCat claimed responsibility for the data breach and a second incident involving the company.

    By Susan Kelly • Dec. 11, 2023
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    Red Roof claims cybersecurity incident did not involve guest data

    The hotel company experienced a ransomware attack in September that targeted personal data.

    By Jenna Graber • Dec. 11, 2023
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    Norton Healthcare ransomware attack exposes 2.5M people

    Ransomware attacks are soaring in the healthcare sector, impacting more than 88 million people in the first 10 months of 2023, according to HHS.

    By • Dec. 11, 2023
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    White House wants to set minimum cyber standards for hospitals, healthcare

    The sector has faced a wave of ransomware linked to the critical CitrixBleed vulnerability, which has led to major attacks from LockBit and other threat groups.

    By • Dec. 11, 2023
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    Court approves Cargill’s $2.4M settlement of Kronos outage wage claims

    Employees alleged that the Kronos Private Cloud ransomware attack resulted in unpaid wages and overtime, among other damages.

    By Ryan Golden • Dec. 8, 2023
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    Data breaches fallout reach new heights as the number of exposed records soars

    The increased threat to and exposure of personal data is linked to two key factors: a rise in ransomware and attacks against vendors, an MIT study found.

    By • Dec. 8, 2023