The global shift to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic and massive downsizing have catalyzed a spike in cybercrime. In 2020, the majority of cybercriminal groups switched to ransomware attacks, which helped them gain more with easier technical...
South Country Health Alliance (SCHA), a public health department in Minnesota, suffered a security incident that may have affected the personal information of some SCHA community members. SCHA discovered unauthorized access to an employee email account on June 25,...
Data Privacy is a big concern for governments and institutions. There are many debates about data residency, data stewardship, data ownership, and data privacy on the cloud. The introduction of acts/laws such as GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and industry standards...
Axio, a cyber risk management service provider, in the wake of the SolarWinds event, has come up with a limited time offer to perform rapid analysis of insurance coverage by making the Axio360 policy analysis engine available to anyone...
Misconfigured S3 buckets have led to major hacking incidents, for which the Magecart Group has been largely responsible. The Capital One data breach (100 million customers impacted), Facebook data breach, the Honda database leak, and the data breaches at...
As we say goodbye to 2020, here are some 2021 cybersecurity predictions on ransomware, synthetic media, hacking for hire, and remote working for organizations worldwide.
By James Muir, Threat Intelligence Research Lead, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
1. Ransomware continues its march;...
The David vs Goliath
The “Goliath” Apple had taken on the “David” Corellium in August last year when the former filed a lawsuit against the cybersecurity startup regarding a copyright infringement of its iPhone software. The tech giant claimed that...
Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries has confirmed a security breach after unknown threat actors illicitly obtained access to its internal networks by exploiting servers located overseas. The authorities stated that some critical information may have been exposed to third-party vendors.
“The...
The year that has been 2020 has been a cornucopia for cybercriminals who have been able to feast off an extended attack surface, a weakened edge, and networks under enormous strain. If this was the Hunger Games, it could...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has launched a detection tool to identify any unusual or malicious activities in an Azure/Microsoft O365 environment. The agency stated the free detection tool, dubbed Sparrow, is created in response to the...
