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Industry News: ESG5

    How to Help Spoil the Cybercrime Economy

    2020-08-11

    DarkReading: The key commodities prices of oil, grains, sugar, and cotton don't just affect business sectors as they rise and fall with supply and demand: They also drive global trading activity and form the foundation of the world economy. The same applies to cybercrime.

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    Network Security Is Not Data Security

    2020-08-11

    Cyber Defense Magazine: Data is an organization’s most valuable asset, yet data loss is one of the biggest repercussions of a cyber attack. In 2019, more than 15 billion records were exposed in data breaches, amounting to more than $3.5 billion lost to cybercrime.

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    Cybercriminals Are Developing and Boosting Their Attacks

    2020-08-06

    Help Net Security: An INTERPOL assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on cybercrime has shown a significant target shift from individuals and small businesses to major corporations, governments and critical infrastructure.

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    ‘Year of the Phish’? Socially-Engineered Attacks Populate Crypto in 2020

    2020-08-06

    Finance Magnates: When it comes to cryptocurrency-related crime, every year seems to have its own particular ‘flavor’. 2018 was the year of massive exchange hacks (remember Coincheck?); 2019 was seasoned with an air of massive ponzi schemes (PlusToken, OneCoin) with a few scandals thrown in the mix (QuadrigaCX, anyone?)

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    Record Cybersecurity Attacks Strike ‘Particularly Vulnerable’ Hedge Funds

    2020-08-04

    Financial News: Cybersecurity companies are warning that they’ve seen an exponential rise in attempted “phishing”, banking-email compromises, and illegal cryptocurrency mining. And it’s hedge funds that may be most vulnerable.

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    The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Cybersecurity

    2020-07-30

    Businesswire: The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for hackers and online scammers, and cybersecurity professionals saw a 63 percent increase in cyber-attacks related to the pandemic, according to a survey released by the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and independent industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). As the global impact of COVID-19 manifested itself in the middle of March, ESG and ISSA conducted an in-depth survey in April 2020 as a point in time assessment of challenges posed by the pandemic.

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    Kaspersky Finds Lazarus is Now Operating its Own Ransomware

    2020-07-28

    Kaspersky: Incident analysis by Kaspersky of two cases in Europe and Asia has uncovered that VHD ransomware – first discussed in public in spring 2020 – is owned and operated by Lazarus, a prominent APT group. The move by Lazarus to create and distribute ransomware signifies a change of strategy and indicates a willingness to engage in big game hunting in pursuit of financial gain, which is highly unusual among state-sponsored APT groups.

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    Are Insurtech Startups Undervalued?

    2020-07-22

    Tech Crunch: In the heels Hippo’s funding round and our exploration of how the private markets appear to be more conservative than public investors at the moment, we’re asking a new question: are a bunch of insurtech startups undervalued?

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    COVID-19 Crisis Shifts Cybersecurity Priorities and Budgets

    2020-07-21

    McKinsey: Few corporate functions shifted priorities so much and so quickly when the COVID-19 crisis struck as corporate cybersecurity operations and the technology providers that support them did. As legions of employees suddenly found themselves in a work-from-home model, chief information-security officers (CISOs) adjusted, pivoting from working on routine tasks and toward long-term goals to establishing secure connections for newly minted remote workforces.

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    Russian Group Targeted COVID-19 Vaccine Research in Canada, U.S. and U.K., Say Intelligence Agencies

    2020-07-16

    CBC: The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), responsible for Canada's foreign signals intelligence, said APT29 — also known as Cozy Bear and the Dukes — is behind the malicious activity.

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