Tag: helix22
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90 British Pension Orgs Report Data Exposure Due to 3rd Party Vendor Capita
90 organisations to date have reported breaches of personal data held by Capita, the outsourcing giant, according to The Information Commissioners Office (ICO), the privacy and data watchdo. The company suffered a cyber attack in March this year and it then emerged that Capita had left a pool of data unsecured online. Hundreds of thousands… Read more
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Moonlighter Satellite Hacking Sandbox Is Going To The ISS
Six miniature satellites called CubeSats are set to launch on SpaceX’s 28th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission to the International Space Station (ISS), where they will be deployed. Among them, the Aerospace Corporation will launch Moonlighter, the world’s first and only hacking sandbox in space. A hacking sandbox is a form of cyber security technology… Read more
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Hackers Demand $3,000,000 from SAS Airlines
Hacker group Anonymous Sudan have escalated their ransom demand up to to $3 million to halt distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) on Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) websites. Despite claiming to be politically-motivated hacktivists, Anonymous Sudan is clearly not above resorting to using extortion tactics for financial gain. The hackers said on their Telegram channel that the airline’s… Read more
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Augusta Georgia Suffers Serious Ransomware Attack
BlackByte group has claimed responsibility for a ransomware attack on Augusta, Georgia. The ransomware group has posted 10GB of sample data for free and claimed they have a lot more data available. “We have lots of sensitive data. Many people would like to see that as well as the media. You were given time to connect us but it… Read more
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2023 Global Threat Intelligence Report From Blackberry – 12 Attacks Per Minute Tracked
Blackberry has publish their annual Global Threat Intelligence Report. Key highlights of this report include: 90 days by the numbers. From December 2022 to February 2023, we observed up to 12 attacks per minute, and the number of unique attacks using new malware samples skyrocketed by 50 percent—from one per minute in the previous report to… Read more
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The #StopRansomwareGuide From CISA, FBI, NSA and MS-ISAC
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) published the #StopRansomware Guide—an updated version of the 2020 guide containing additional recommended actions, resources, and tools. This publication was produced through the Joint Ransomware Task Force (JRTF), an interagency body… Read more
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61% of CISO’s Feel Unprepared To Cope With a Targeted Cyber Attack
Proofpoint, Inc., Voice of the CISO report, which explores key challenges, expectations and priorities of chief information security officers (CISOs). Sixty-eight percent of surveyed CISOs feel at risk of a material cyber attack, compared to 48% the year before, when they may have felt a brief sense of calm after adapting to the chaos of… Read more
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Insurance Claims Show Ransomware Costs Are Skyrocketing
Based on insurance claims reports, there was a definite “resurgence” in ransomware activity over the back half of last year, as paying (or at least publicly reporting) ransoms has become more difficult, with economic sanctions placed on a number of ransomware groups that would make it illegal. Data from cryptocurrency tracking firm Chainalysis showed a… Read more
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DISH Network Pays Ransom To Keep Data From Being Published
The American satellite broadcast provider Dish Network went offline on February 24, 2023, the outage impacted Dish.com, Dish Anywhere app, and many other services owned by the company. In early February, the company admitted that the outage was caused by a ransomware attack. It has been reported that the company was a victim of the Black Basta ransomware… Read more
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Meta Fined $1.3 Billion Over Data Handling
In a record for European Union privacy violations, Meta has been fined $1.3 billion over its handling of users’ data, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission announced Monday. Meta was previously warned by the EU for transferring Facebook users’ data to US servers, saying that it was not sufficiently protected from American spy agencies. It has now been ordered… Read more