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Payment card breaches were back in the news again this week as Forever 21 announced that it is investigating a point-of-sale breach (POS) at some of its stores, and several other organizations issued breach announcements related to stolen payment card … Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: More Payment Card Breaches and Dark Web Arrests
October’s Bad Rabbit ransomware attacks were back in the news this week due to a report that a series of phishing attacks occurred at the same time as the Bad Rabbit outbreak, and the parallel attacks may have been carried out by the same group. The discovery also suggests that Ukraine may have been a… Read More
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The Spanish government was the week’s top trending cybercrime target due to a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and other attacks that were orchestrated by the hacktivist group Anonymous. The Anonymous’ campaign against the Spanish government comes on the heels of Catalonia’s recent referendum on independence. As Miguel-Anxo Murado wrote in The New York Review… Read More
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The week’s top trending event was the outbreak of Bad Rabbit ransomware, which quickly spread across Russia and Eastern Europe before most of the infrastructure behind the attack was taken offline hours later. Bad Rabbit was largely spread via watering hole attacks using compromised news media websites that prompted users to install a fake “Flash… Read More
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The Swedish Transportation Administration and other related agencies were among the week’s top trending cybercrime targets due to a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that led to services being disrupted earlier this month. The DDoS attacks against the Swedish Transportation Administration affected all of its web-based systems, including the IT system that manages train orders,… Read More
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The National Security Agency and Kaspersky Lab were once again among the week’s top trending targets due to continued reporting around Kaspersky’s alleged involvement in the 2015 theft of classified materials from the home computer of an NSA employee. As we noted last week, sources told the The Wall Street Journal that a contractor took… Read More
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