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Clorox and Johnson Controls Collectively Paid $76 Million to Cover 2023 Data Breach Costs
Clorox paid about $49 million and Johnson Controls paid about $27 million to cover data breach costs in 2023. The total of nearly $76 million is in actual money paid for contracting and assorted remediation measures.
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Deepfake Scams Reach the Next Level as HK$200 Million Is Stolen in Hong Kong Fraud Case
A fake video conference managed to net threat actors HK$200 million in a first-of-its-kind deepfake scam. The attackers were able to simulate video for a virtual room full of company executives, apparently using nothing but existing public sources.
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Asia Pacific Job Boards Raided by “ResumeLooters” Hacking Group
An unusual hacking group that focuses on resumes has been on a spree in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, compromising at least 65 websites and gathering up over half a million in total.
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Number of Data Breaches Continues to Surge, Pushed by Zero Days and Supply Chain Attacks
The ITRC has been tracking data breaches for nearly two decades now and has never seen a year as bad as 2023 before, with 72% more than the previous record year’s total.
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Beijing Law Enforcement Claims to Have Broken AirDrop Sharing Encryption
Justice Bureau of Beijing has claimed it has the capacity to unmask the email addresses and phone numbers of senders using Apple’s AirDrop sharing.
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To What Extent Are Chinese Hackers Still in US Critical Infrastructure? FBI Issues a Strong Warning
The plan for Chinese hackers appears to be a focus on the critical infrastructure that supports military installations, but Wray warns that these groups are also likely to make more general attacks aimed at causing chaos in the lives of US civilians.
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US Takes On Volt Typhoon, Chinese Hacking Group That Has Nested in Critical Infrastructure Companies
The FBI and DOJ are on the offensive against a Chinese hacking group thought to have infiltrated US critical infrastructure. Its activity highlights the need for vigilance in keeping an updated inventory of outdated and known vulnerable devices.
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Cyber Events Hold Their Place as Top Risk to Businesses in Annual Survey
The 2024 Allianz survey of top risks set at least one new record for its thirteen-year history: this is the first time that every size of business reported cyber events as their leading concern.
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Russian Hackers Keeping Busy as HPE Deals With Email Security Breach
The perpetrator of a recent attack on Microsoft also seems to have been behind a December security breach of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the second time it hit the company in the space of a year.
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Data Leaks Become Even More Centralized With “Mother of All Breaches” Spanning 26 Billion Records
The new MOAB is by far the largest COMB or “combo file” spans some 26 billion records in total and seems to include nearly all of the big data leaks of the past decade and beyond.