Magecart or skimming attacks are a regular tool of the trade for cybercriminals and the data that they collect often ends up for sale on the Dark Web.
Hackers steal credit card information from Michigan State University’s online store
Unauthorized party accesses FHN employee emails
Not only will this cause customer anger, this breach will also incur a potentially substantial HIPPA violation penalty. Placing better protections, including multifactor authentication, on systems that handle sensitive data can prevent incidents like this from happening.
Hackers steal 1TB of Brown-Forman corporate data
Ransomware often makes its way into company inboxes in the form of a phishing email. Phishing resistance training must be a crucial component of any company’s cybersecurity strategy.
Vishing Scams to Avoid
What is Vishing?
By now, you and your employees should be aware of phishing scams and how to avoid them. There are new tricks scammers are trying to use and it is something that can get lost in the day-to-day grind of the work day. Vishing is a phone scam type of phishing attack and can come from spoofed phone numbers or a blocked number and impersonate a legitimate person or organization.
UberEats data dump exposes personal information to 679 customers and delivery drivers
This breach is especially troubling because it is unacknowledged and it was discovered by Dark Web analysts instead of internal IT, putting in question the company’s transparency about security and attention to small security issues.