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Under Armor announced this week that approximately 150 million users of the diet and fitness app MyFitnessPal had their personal information acquired by an unauthorized third party sometime in February 2018. As Reuters noted, it is the largest data bre… Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: MyFitnessPal Breach, Carbanak Leader Arrested
One of the biggest data breach announcements of the past week belonged to Orbitz, which said on Tuesday that as many as 880,000 customers may have had their payment card and other personal information compromised due to unauthorized access to a legacy … Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Orbitz Breach, Facebook Privacy Fallout
On Thursday, the U.S. government imposed sanctions against five entities and 19 individuals for their role in “destabilizing activities” ranging from interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to carrying out destructive cyber-attac… Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Russia Sanctions, Mossack Fonseca Shutdown, Equifax Insider Trading
This past week saw the announcement of several new payment card breaches, including a point-of-sale breach at Applebee’s restaurants that affected 167 locations across 15 states. The malware, which was discovered on February 13, 2018, was “… Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Payment Card Breaches, Encryption Debate, and Breach Notification Laws
Last week, researchers observed a 1.35 Tbps distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS) attack targeting GitHub. It was the largest DDoS attack ever recorded, surpassing the 1.2 Tbps attack against DNS provider Dyn in October 2016. The attack leveraged… Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Record-Setting DDoS Attacks, Data Breach Costs
The FBI is once again warning organizations that there has been an increase in phishing campaigns targeting employee W-2 information. In addition, this week saw new breach notifications related to W-2 theft, as well as reports of a threat actor targeti… Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: W-2 Theft, BEC Scams, and SEC Guidance
More information was revealed this week about the Olympic Destroyer malware and how it was used to disrupt the availability of the Pyeonchang Olympic’s official website for a 12-hour period earlier this month. It appears that back in December, a … Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Olympic Malware and Russian Cybercrime
Cryptocurrency continued to make headlines this past week for a variety of cybercrime-related activities. For starters, researchers discovered a new cryptocurrency miner, dubbed ADB.Miner, that infected nearly 7,000 Android devices such as smartphones,… Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Cryptocurrency Attacks and a Major Cybercriminal Indictment
Several cryptocurrency exchanges were among the week’s top trending cybercrime targets due to a variety of different currency thefts, data breaches, and warnings from researchers. The most impactful incident occurred at the bitcoin mining platfor… Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Bitcoin Attacks Dominate Headlines, New Phishing Warnings
Uber was the week’s top trending cybercrime target due to the announcement of a year-old breach that affects 57 million customers and drivers. In addition, the company admitted to paying the hackers $100,000 in an effort to keep the breach out th… Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Uber’s Breach Woes, Major Cybercriminals Prosecuted