Here are the latest updates on the major hacks and attacks this week that will keep you abreast of the recent threat factors and help plan your phishing prevention strategies.
Conti Ransomware Gang Attacks Sandhills Global
US-based information processing firm Sandhills Global recently underwent a ransomware attack that disrupted its business operations and brought down all hosted websites. Its trade magazines include Truck Paper, TractorHouse, RentalYard, Machinery Trader, AuctionTime, Machinery Trader Auction Results, Charter Hub, Controller, and Executive Controller. Users who visited the Sandhills website during this downtime received a Cloudflare Origin DNS error page. In the interim, Sandhills Global’s phones were un-operational as well.
Ransomware attacks have increased ominously over the last couple of years, and you would be surprised to know how innovative cyber adversaries have become in their modus operandi. Ensuring phishing protection becomes problematic when the attackers don’t stick to one strategy or name, and that is where the role of keeping abreast of the latest data breaches comes in. Following are the major data breaches in the past week.
Threat actors continue to launch phishing campaigns and ransomware attacks to lure netizens into giving away PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and other critical information. The best prevention against such threats is keeping oneself abreast of the latest methods that they adopt to launch cyber attacks. To that end, here are the major phishing and data breach events of this week.
Phishing is a recurrent problem in the cyber world, and if you are connected to the internet, then chances are you have witnessed or undergone some form of a phishing attack; whether you fell for it or thwarted it is another story. Here are the phishing headlines in the spotlight this week to help you plan your phishing prevention strategies and maintain robust cyber hygiene:
Threat actors continue with their nefarious activities to target organizations around the world. The following news headlines highlight the major phishing attacks in the past week and the mitigation measures adopted by concerned authorities.
AVOS Locker Ransomware Attacks Pacific City Bank
The Pacific City Bank is a leading American bank providing commercial banking services to Korean-Americans based in California. The Bank recently underwent a ransomware attack, and the AVOS Locker Ransomware gang was behind the attack. Several sensitive files were stolen from the organization’s servers, and threat actors warn of leaking them.
Phishing attack prevention is a global struggle, and cyber security experts strive to reduce the attack ratio every day. However, some adversaries continue to seem to be a step ahead. Here are phishing headlines of this week that lay down the importance of adopting adequate anti-phishing measures.
Dallas Independent School District Announces Data Breach
The Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD) discovered a data breach in its systems on 8th August 2021 and disclosed it in a data breach notice on 2nd September 2021. As per the details revealed, the data breach affected the records of employees and students associated with Dallas ISD since 2010. The adversaries gained access to the school district’s network, stole files, and stored them on an encrypted cloud site. Dallas ISD did everything in its capacity to ensure anti-phishing protection and address the vulnerabilities.
Ransomware and phishing scams together account for a majority of the cyberattacks that happen every year. This week’s news headlines cover the major phishing scams from the past few days and re-emphasize the importance of anti-phishing measures for individuals and organizations.
Ransomware Hits Lojas Renner
Brazil’s largest clothing department store chain with over 600 stores across three countries – Lojas Renner recently underwent a ransomware attack that affected its online shopping portal. As per reports, the RansomExx gang is responsible for this attack on Renner, which brought down its IT infrastructure. Some chaos and misinformation were being spread when Renner first disclosed the breach on the Brazilian stock market on 26th August 2021. However, the enterprise confirmed that none of its offline stores were impacted by the breach and that outlets were still open for shoppers.
Ransomware and phishing continue to remain some of the major causes of concern for global organizations. This week’s phishing headlines highlight the most significant data breaches and other cyber attacks that you need to read about to keep yourself updated so you can learn to thwart such attacks.
Ransomware Hits ForHousing and Liberty
The Salford-based social housing group ForHousing and Liberty recently underwent a ransomware attack in which attackers stole some of its data. While no staff or tenant data was affected, a small portion of data from the enterprise’s systems was stolen. The group had to bring down its systems for some time to ensure protection against phishing.
There can never be an assurance of complete phishing attack prevention attached to any cybersecurity solution. Cyber adversaries are getting sophisticated and innovative by the day, and a mere click on a link received in a spam email is enough to jeopardize your information assets today. However, it does not mean that organizations must not take any measures. One of these crucial measures includes studying recent cyberattacks that can help you devise a comprehensive phishing attack prevention strategy. Here are the top phishing headlines from last week.
While an enterprise may agree to pay the demanded ransom, there remains the risk of attackers putting up the organization’s sensitive data for sale on the dark web. Therefore, it is necessary to stop ransomware and phishing attacks at their root. The easiest way to do that is by keeping abreast of the latest phishing news and adopting phishing protection measures beforehand. Here are the top phishing and ransomware headlines of this week.
Data breaches are a typical news headline in most cybersecurity updates today. There is no guarantee that ransomware attackers won’t steal data from a system before giving away the decryption key. As such, organizations must adopt phishing attack prevention measures from the beginning so that the adversaries are left with any vulnerabilities or loopholes to exploit. The following cyber headlines throw light on the significant data breaches and phishing attacks that have occurred over the week
Phishing prevention is one of the most significant challenges businesses face today; the worrying part for business owners is that threat actors do not just target large conglomerates anymore. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are as lucrative a target for them as the larger organizations, given SMEs have limited budgets, and they can allocate only so much to robust anti-phishing measures. Hence, one of the easiest and most effective ways to thwart phishing attacks is to keep oneself updated and educated on the latest phishing and cyber trends. Here is how the past week in the cyber world looked like.
Phishing headlines are unlikely to leave the cybersecurity news any time soon. This week’s cybersecurity updates indicate the surge in ransomware attacks, data thefts, and financial fraud, throwing light on the importance of adopting the right anti-phishing solutions to keep your and your organization’s critical information assets secure.
WooCommerce Patches Critical Vulnerability
The WooCommerce administrators urge all users of the e-commerce plugin for the WordPress content management system to update their plugins to version 5.5.51. This is because over 90 versions of the 5.5.0 plugin were vulnerable to a severe bug that adversaries could exploit without authentication.
This week’s phishing news headlines cover a wide range of cyberattacks on organizations and institutes that highlight the significance of adopting phishing prevention best practices to ensure safety from the latest cyber attacks in today’s times.
Ransomware Hits Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG)
Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG) is a Fortune 500 firm providing risk management and global insurance brokerage services. An unidentified ransomware gang accessed its network between 3rd June 2020 and 26th September 2020, and this exposed the personal information of around 7,376 individuals. AJG is now informing all affected individuals of the incident via breach notification letters. The firm has also informed the data regulatory authorities and is currently working with cybersecurity and forensic specialists to investigate the attack.
The need to adopt robust phishing protection solutions is more than ever before, as threat actors continue to invent new ways to lure users into divulging their critical information. The following phishing headlines from the world over indicate that anti-phishing protection involves a lot more than just email spam filters or cybersecurity awareness and why it is important to keep yourself abreast of the latest modus operandi malicious actors adopt to steal off your credentials.
There is not much one can do when threat actors have infiltrated their information assets and robbed them of their identity by stealing their Personally Identifiable Information (PII). This is why it is crucial to keep oneself abreast of the latest tricks and techniques malicious actors employ to attack users. Incorporating robust strategies from each cyber incident you may come across can go a long way in helping you in phishing awareness, ensuring protection from multiple threat actors. The following weekly phishing headlines have been written to help you with the same.
Phishing is one of the most effective entry points for threats to inject malware into users’ systems. This week’s headlines are all about them. Read on to know why it is essential to pay heed to phishing prevention tips.
Ransomware Hits Stillwater Medical Center
The Stillwater Medical Center in Oklahoma serves several Oklahoma hospitals, clinics, care sites, and specialist offices. In an unfortunate ransomware attack targeting Stillwater on 13th June, all of its operations were brought down. However, as the medical center undergoes an electronic health record downtime, its IT team has proactively accessed the affected systems and informed law enforcement.
In today’s times, it has become necessary to keep yourself abreast of the latest cyber-attacks, and various ways threat actors adopt to attack users and rob them of their monetary or digital assets. For instance, a mere click on the wrong link is enough for the threat to access your credentials and other critical information. Simply keeping yourself updated is one of the best phishing attack prevention strategies and can help you avoid the majority of phishing attacks. Here are the latest headlines from this past week.
Cyber adversaries who launch phishing attacks leverage the mindset of the unaware users; for instance, they assume the phishing email to be coming from a legitimate source and end up disclosing their critical information to the threat actor. The bad news is that there is no one-hundred-percent full-proof phishing prevention strategy, but the good news is that the majority of phishing scams can be avoided if users keep themselves abreast of the latest techniques and modus operandi of threat actors, which is why we bring you the top phishing headlines this week
Cyberattacks and data breaches have rapidly increased over the past year. Hundreds of thousands of users lose their data to phishing attacks even today. Here are the top phishing headlines from the last week to enable an organization to accept and incorporate the best phishing prevention tips.
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