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Zdnet: Over 2.3 billion files -- including sensitive data like payroll information, credit card details, medical data and patents for intellectual property -- are exposed publicly online, putting both people and organisations at risk of data theft, cybercrime, espionage and other malicious activities. Analysis by researchers at cybersecurity company Digital Shadows found the highly sensitive information stored alongside other data in publicly exposed or misconfigured online storage and cloud services, including SMB file shares, rsync servers, and Amazon S3 buckets....
Reuters: Police in six countries have dismantled a complex cybercrime network that operated from Eastern Europe and fleeced victims - including small businesses and charities - of some $100 million, Europe’s police agency said on Thursday. The GozNym network, led by a man from Tbilisi, Georgia, used phishing emails to infect the computers of more than 41,000 victims with malware. Specialised members of the group in Bulgaria and Ukraine then seized control of victims’ online bank accounts and tranferred their funds to laundering accounts...
TheTelegraph: WhatsApp has urged users to update their messaging app after concerns were raised that hackers could inject spy software on to phones via the call function. The Facebook-owned company said the spyware was spread by an “advanced cyber actor”, and infected multiple mobile phones using a major vulnerability in the app. The spyware, developed by the secretive Israeli spyware company NSO Group, has the ability to give hackers full access to a phone remotely, allowing them to read messages, see contacts and activate the camera...
Globe Newswire: The healthcare organizations are increasingly adopting cyber security solutions to keep cybercriminals at bay. The healthcare providers are taking more precautions in securing devices and connected networks, which, in turn, is increasing the popularity of healthcare cyber security tools and solutions. The key factors driving the cyber security in healthcare market is the increasing number of cyber-attack threats, as the medical records contain huge volumes of information that can be used to perform identity fraud...
CNBC: Hackers have stolen over $40 million worth of bitcoin from Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, the company said on Tuesday. Binance said the hackers ran off with over 7,000 bitcoin and used a variety of attack methods to carry out the "large scale security breach" which occurred on Tuesday...
FinancialPost: A federal grand jury has indicted two members of “extremely sophisticated” hacking group operating from China in the 2014-2015 theft of the personal information of nearly 79 million customers of insurer Anthem Inc., the biggest known health care hack in U.S. history. The Justice Department said the two also hacked three other U.S.-based companies it did not name, one in the technology sector, the others in basic materials and communications...
Forbes: Financial institutions face a complex array of threats — from the immediate such as synthetic identities which have been used to defraud individual firms multiple times. But they also should be looking around and ahead, said Valerie Abend, managing director, Accenture Security and co-author with Howard Marshall, principal director at Accenture Security, of a report entitled “Extreme but Plausible Threat Scenarios In Financial Services.”...
Euronews: Losses from the theft of cryptocurrencies from exchanges and fraud-related activities surged in the first quarter of the year to $1.2 billion (920.67 million pounds), or 70 percent of the level for all of 2018, cybersecurity firm CipherTrace said on Tuesday. The value of losses from crime in the digital currency sector in 2018 hit $1.7 billion. But cryptocurrency crime has ballooned as the market has slowed down, prices have plunged and business activity has stalled...
BobsGuide: Hackers are exploiting inherent weaknesses in mature hedge funds on a daily basis, say a security vendor and the chief technology officer of an established fund, leading to huge boosts in cybersecurity spending. “Hedge funds are being targeted simply because of cash movements where frequent large transfers are normal at a small business that doesn’t necessarily have all the controls in place,” says Jason Elmer, managing partner at Drawbridge, the cybersecurity consultancy...
Forbes: Research published on Monday by cyber threat intelligence company Intsights paints a bleak picture for cybersecurity across the global financial services industry. According to the report, more than 25% of all malware attacks hit banks and other financial services organizations, more than any other industry, and there were huge year-on-year increases in the numbers of compromised credit cards (212%), in credential leaks (129%) and in malicious apps (102%)...
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