An elite team of Iranian state-sponsored hackers successfully infiltrated hundreds of thousands of employee accounts at US companies and government agencies, according to the Feds, as part of a multiyear cyber espionage campaign aimed at stealing military secrets. The US Departments of Treasury and State are among those compromised in the elaborate campaign, which lasted […]
One in five UK companies has had potentially sensitive corporate data exposed via employee use of generative AI (GenAI), a new report has revealed. London-headquartered cybersecurity services provider RiverSafe polled 250 CISOs nationwide to compile its new report, Underfunded and Under Reported: Threats, Breaches, and Budgets. The data leak risks of unmanaged GenAI use help […]
Employee fraud grew significantly last year thanks to the opportunities afforded by remote working and the pressures of a cost-of-living crisis in the UK, according to Cifas. The anti-fraud non-profit claimed that the number of individuals recorded in its cross-sector Insider Threat Database (ITD) increased 14% year-on-year (YoY) in 2023, with the most common reason […]
The malware is being distributed through emails pretending to be from an IRS employee, with recipients unknowingly downloading the QakBot DLL when attempting to view a PDF attachment.
According to recent research on employee offboarding, 70% of IT professionals say they’ve experienced the negative effects of incomplete IT offboarding, whether in the form of a security incident tied to an account that wasn’t deprovisioned, a surprise bill for resources that aren’t in use anymore, or a missed handoff of a critical resource or […]
Five Canadian hospitals have confirmed that patient and employee data that was stolen in a ransomware attack has been leaked online. The data breach impacts Bluewater Health, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare, and Windsor Regional Hospital, along with service provider TransForm Shared Service Organization. A shared drive was compromised as part […]
The company discovered suspicious activity in employee email accounts in January 2023 and determined that the breach occurred between December 2022 and January 2023. The stolen data includes names, SSNs, and financial account information.
Top executives — the employee group most targeted by threat actors — are frequently provided unfettered access to valuable data sources and networked assets, according to Ivanti. Executives access unauthorized work data While 96% of leaders say they are at least moderately supportive and invested in their organization’s cybersecurity mandate, the reality is that 49% […]
Oct 24, 2023NewsroomCyber Espionage / Data Safety A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has pleaded guilty to charges accusing him of attempting to transmit classified defense information to Russia. Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 31, served as an Information Systems Security Designer for the NSA from June 6, 2022, to July 1, 2022, […]
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