There is a market for hackers – that is why the cyber security is very real for large and small organisations- although many smaller organisations hit will just be collateral damage. Hackers selling access to 576 corporate networks for $4 million (bleepingcomputer.com)
What can you do if you get infected by ransomware?
Fall back and use your ransomware resilient back-up to recover your encrypted information – and hope that your data classification and segregation has protected your most sensitive information from exfiltration and exposure in the public domain. Or you could hope that the Dutch police have recovered the ransomware decryption key …
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BreachForums is more popular than ever with threat actors
BreachForums is a site that shares stolen data between threat actors – and it is expanding mainly due to the “billion record Chinese hack” being shared there: Billion-record Chinese data leak’s host booms • The Register Don’t let your organisation’s information end up there!
LendingTree suffers a data breach
This a data breach of sensitive client information from the finance company LendingTree – the data is apparently for sale on the Dark Web: LendingTree denies connection to data breach affecting 200,000, but confirms a different one – The Record by Recorded Future
Are you trying to improve your organisation’s cyber security? Lessons from the largest data theft ever. UPDATED 11 July 2022.
This post was first published on 5 July 2022. The Chinese President, Xi Jinping, is calling for improved cyber security, in the country following the unprecedented alleged data theft by ChinaDan: Security warning after sale of stolen Chinese data – BBC News Details of the theft are starting to be …
