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Study: Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks

November 7, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, department of health and human services, hhs, leo scanlon, owen graduate school of management, pbs, The Coming Storm, the new england journal of medicine, vanderbilt university, WannaCry

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:48:03 +0000

Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts, a new study posits. Health industry experts say the findings should prompt a larger review of how security — or the lack thereof — may be impacting patient outcomes.

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NCR Barred Mint, QuickBooks from Banking Platform During Account Takeover Storm

November 3, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, credential replay attacks, digital insight, intuit, Mint, ncr corp, quickbooks online, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 21:41:48 +0000

Banking industry giant NCR Corp. [NYSE: NCR] late last month took the unusual step of temporarily blocking third-party financial data aggregators Mint and QuicBooks Online from accessing Digital Insight, an online banking platform used by hundreds of financial institutions. That ban, which came in response to a series of bank account takeovers in which cybercriminals used aggregation sites to surveil and drain consumer accounts, has since been rescinded. But the incident raises fresh questions about the proper role of digital banking platforms in fighting password abuse.

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Breaches at NetworkSolutions, Register.com, and Web.com

October 30, 2019 0 Comments Data Breaches, domainstate.com, networksolutions breach, register.com breach, web.com breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:47:34 +0000

Top domain name registrars NetworkSolutions.com, Register.com and Web.com are asking customers to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion in August 2019 in which customer account information was accessed.

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Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach

October 29, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, andrei barysevich, briansclub breach, Data Breaches, gemini advisory, mastercard, Ne'er-Do-Well News, visa

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:47:58 +0000

Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world’s largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people.

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Cachet Financial Reeling from MyPayrollHR Fraud

October 24, 2019 0 Comments The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:50:44 +0000

When NY based cloud payroll provider MyPayrollHR unexpectedly shuttered its doors last month and disappeared with $26 million worth of customer payroll deposits, its payments processor Cachet Financial Services ended up funding the bank accounts of MyPayrollHR client company employees anyway, graciously eating a $26 million loss which it is now suing to recover.

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Ransomware Hits B2B Payments Firm Billtrust

October 22, 2019 0 Comments billtrust ransomware attack, Data Breaches, steven pinado

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:04:21 +0000

Business-to-business payments provider Billtrust is still recovering from a ransomware attack that began last week. The company said it is in the final stages of bringing all of its systems back online from backups.

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Avast, NordVPN Breaches Tied to Phantom User Accounts

October 21, 2019 0 Comments avast breach, Data Breaches, filehippo, jaya baloo, kenneth white, nordvpn breach, open crypto audit project, secunia personal software inspector, supply chain attack, techcrunch, zack whittaker

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:32:57 +0000

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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When Card Shops Play Dirty, Consumers Win

October 16, 2019 0 Comments briansclub, Data Breaches, mrgreen, Ne'er-Do-Well News

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:13:42 +0000

Cybercrime forums have been abuzz this week over news that BriansClub — one of the underground’s largest shops for stolen credit and debit cards — had been hacked, and its inventory of 26 million cards leaked to security contacts in the banking industry. Now it appears this brazen heist may have been the result of one of BriansClub’s longtime competitors trying to knock out a rival.

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“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

October 15, 2019 0 Comments allison nixon, andrei barysevich, briansclub, briansclub hack, Data Breaches, flashpoint, gemini advisory, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:05:09 +0000

“BriansClub,” a popular underground store for buying stolen credit card data that uses Yours Truly’s likeness in its advertising, has itself been hacked. The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone.

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Patch Tuesday Lowdown, October 2019 Edition

October 9, 2019 0 Comments cve-2019-1367, ivanti, Latest Warnings, remote desktop, security tools, Time to Patch, woody leonhard

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 06:00:58 +0000

On Tuesday Microsoft issued software updates to fix almost five dozen security problems in Windows and software designed to run on top of it. By most accounts, it’s a relatively light patch batch this month. Here’s a look at the highlights.