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FBI Warns of Cyberattacks Targeting Healthcare Payment Processors

September 15, 2022 7:14 pm

Advertisement As part of such attacks, threat actors rely on publicly-available personally identifiable information (PII) and social engineering to impersonate victims and access payment information, healthcare portals, and more. “Recent reporting indicates cyber criminals will continue targeting healthcare payment processors through a variety of techniques, such as phishing campaigns and social engineering, to spoof support...

The Advantages of Threat Intelligence for Combating Fraud

September 7, 2022 10:51 pm

Advertisement Leveraging threat intelligence to combat nation state espionage threats is a common practice for cybersecurity teams. However, outside of common types of fraud seen in darkweb or closed forums, the same threat intelligence often is not leveraged to combat enterprise fraud. If you are a target of APT threats by espionage actors, buying access...

Personal Information of 123K Individuals Exposed in City of Tucson Data Breach

Issued by: Security Week

The incident was identified at the end of May 2022, but the city concluded its investigation only last month. In a data breach notice on its website, the city says that the incident was the result of compromised network account credentials that allowed the attackers...

Cisco Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Communications, Networking Products

Issued by: Security Week

The company has informed customers that its Expressway series and TelePresence Video Communication Server software is affected by two high-severity vulnerabilities. One of them, tracked as CVE-2022-20814 and related to improper certificate validation, can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to access sensitive data through a...

Insurance Giant Lloyd’s of London Investigating Cybersecurity Incident

Issued by: Security Week

The company says it has detected unusual activity and decided to ‘reset’ its network and systems as a precaution. It shut down all external connectivity, including its delegated authority platforms, in response to the incident. “Following the unusual activity detected on Lloyd’s network, our precautionary...

US Government Details Tools Used by APTs in Defense Organization Attack

Issued by: Security Week

The information was collected when CISA investigated the hacking of a defense industrial base organization’s enterprise network between November 2021 and January 2022. The investigation, conducted in collaboration with a third-party incident response firm, revealed that multiple threat groups had compromised the victim’s network and...

Canadian NetWalker Ransomware Affiliate Gets 20-Year Prison Sentence in US

Issued by: Security Week

The man, Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, 35, of Gatineau, Quebec, pleaded guilty in June 2022 to participating in the ransomware scheme. Initially spotted in 2019, NetWalker was being offered under the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) business model and has been used in attacks against tens of organizations worldwide, including...

RealDefense Raises $30 Million to Acquire More Privacy, Cybersecurity Firms

Issued by: Security Week

Founded in 2017, the Pasadena, California-based firm provides organizations with privacy, cybersecurity, and optimization solutions for PC, Mac, and mobile devices. The firm offers software and services tailored for consumers and small businesses and has a global presence in 33 countries, claiming to have more...

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