The State of Ransomware in Retail 2025
361 IT and cybersecurity leaders reveal the ransomware realities for retail businesses today.
Nancy Eff Presnell, Gene F. Price, and Matthew R. Schantz write: A recent high-profile incident illustrates the growing litigation and regulatory risks that financial institutions face from vendor-driven data breaches. Within weeks of a national bank confirming a data security incident at a third-party service provider, at least two putative class actions were filed, though……
Aman Shukla reports: Niva Bupa Health Insurance Company Ltd has recently informed exchanges that the company received an email from an anonymous sender claiming a potential customer data breach. The company is actively investigating the matter and implementing preventive measures to mitigate risks. … In the exchange filing, the company shared, “We have received communication(s)…
Chad Van Alstin reports: Last year, 92% of all healthcare organizations—systems, hospitals, and provider groups—were targeted by a cyberattack, according to a new report from vendor Fortified Health Security. Further, 70% of those that reported experiencing an incident said patient care was impacted in some form, signaling that even an unsuccessful data breach can result in…
The following is a machine translation from a report in Ukrainian by the country’s national police cyber department: A 35-year-old man hacked more than 5,000 customer accounts of a world-famous hosting company to generate cryptocurrency on the organization’s servers. The defendant faces up to 15 years in prison. Police officers determined that a 35-year-old native…
Threat actors affiliated with Russian Intelligence Services are conducting phishing campaigns to compromise commercial messaging applications (CMAs) like WhatsApp and Signal to seize control of accounts belonging to individuals with high intelligence value, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Friday. “The campaign
In a special edition of “No need to hack when it’s leaking,” DataBreaches reports on a software vendor that, despite multiple attempts by multiple parties, continues to expose confidential and sealed court records. Overview As a matter of policy, DataBreaches does not publish unredacted stolen or leaked data if it would expose personally identifiable or……