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Health care hit hard by attacks
July 23, 2021
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Health care hit hard by attacks

Healthcare suffered more from cyberattacks than other industries during the pandemic. The cost per attack rose by 12% in the healthcare sector, which is the highest across all industries; Healthcare is also the industry most likely to suffer from other non-monetary damage, such as: B. application downtime. A new study by EfficientIP and the International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that the healthcare industry experienced the devastating effects of DNS attacks far more than any other industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that the average cost per attack in the healthcare sector rose to 707.357 euros ...

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5G: Security challenge for smart factory environments
June 21, 2021
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5G: Security challenge for smart factory environments

Study: 5G poses a security challenge for smart factory environments. Trend Micro Research highlights various proof-of-concept attacks on connected systems in the study “Attacks From 4G/5G Core Networks: Risks of the Industrial IoT in Compromised Campus Network ”. Trend Micro, one of the world's leading providers of cybersecurity solutions, has released a detailed study revealing emerging threats to 4G/5G campus networks. Many of these take advantage of the difficulties organizations face when patching critical OT environments. Attack scenarios on 5G networks The study describes several attack scenarios and possible protective measures. The test environment mimics the conditions of a smart factory campus network. "The…

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Increasing number of attacks on OT systems
June 14, 2021
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Increasing number of attacks on OT systems

New opportunities for hackers: Increasing number of less sophisticated attacks on OT systems. Mandiant has been monitoring groups of hackers who claim to broker or sell access to Internet-enabled OT systems since at least 2012, but the incidence and relative severity of the incidents have increased significantly in recent years. An analysis. Attacks on control processes in operational technology (OT) are considered to be very complex, because the targeted disruption or modification of a control process for a specific purpose is usually not only very complicated, but also time-consuming and resource-consuming. More attacks - but ...

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Most frequent attacks: Denial of service and password login
20 May 2021
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F5 news

Most common attacks: Denial of Service (DoS) and password login. According to the new F5 study, financial services and many European companies are particularly hard hit. Denial-of-service (DoS) and password login attacks such as brute force and credential stuffing attacks are on the rise. This is shown by a new study by F5 Labs1. The analysis is based on incidents over the past three years that have been reported to the F5 Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). As a result, attacks on APIs (Application Programming Interface) are also increasing. DoS attacks are ubiquitous According to F5 Labs, almost one in three (32%) incidents reported annually was a DoS attack. The percentage increases slightly ...

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Plus 800 percent: Attacks on high-ranking organizations
12 May 2021
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Kaspersky_news

Ransomware 2019-2020: Targeted attacks on high-profile organizations up almost eight times. However, the total number of generic attacks on Kaspersky users fell by 29 percent. The number of attacks on Kaspersky users by targeted ransomware - malware that is used to extort ransom money from high-ranking targets such as corporations, government agencies and municipal organizations for the release of encrypted data - increased by 2019 percent between 2020 and 767. At the same time, the total number of affected users of Kaspersky solutions who were compromised by generic types of ransomware fell by 29 percent - with WannaCry still ...

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Industrial cybersecurity in Germany
3 May 2021
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Industrial cybersecurity in Germany

Industrial cybersecurity in Germany: fewer attacks, but more complex. Most of the Internet and email threats. However: 33 percent more attacks on ICS computers worldwide. Current Kaspersky analyzes for the second half of 2020 show that the number of cyber attacks on German industrial companies has decreased slightly since 2019, but these are becoming increasingly targeted and dangerous. The reasons: fewer attacks using spyware and agents from various botnets, crypto miners and aggressive adware - the number of computers infected with old, self-spreading malware in the form of worms is also falling ...

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247 million RDP brute force attacks in 12 months 
8 April 2021
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Millions of people have been working from home for a year. In the course of this, the use of remote access tools has increased enormously - and with it a massive increase in brute force attacks against the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), one of the most popular remote access tools for workstations and servers. In such attacks, cyber criminals test different usernames and passwords until they find the right combination and then get remote access to the computer within the network; possible consequences: espionage or theft of information. Remote desktop attacks remain high Even at the beginning of the corona pandemic ...

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10 groups of hackers attack Exchange vulnerabilities
March 12, 2021
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10 groups of hackers attack Exchange vulnerabilities

More than ten groups of hackers attack Microsoft Exchange security holes. ESET has already identified more than 5.000 infected email servers, mainly in Germany. The recently publicized vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange are making waves. The researchers at the IT security manufacturer ESET discovered more than ten different APT (Advanced Persistent Threats) groups that are currently increasingly exploiting the vulnerabilities to compromise e-mail servers and gain access to company data. So the threat is not limited to the Chinese hafnium group, as previously suspected. ESET identified around 5.000 corporate and government email servers that were compromised around the world. The…

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Healthcare Breach Report: 26 million people affected
March 11, 2021
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Bitglass Healthcare Breach Report: More than 26 million people affected last year. U.S. healthcare data breaches up 2020 percent in 55,2.

Bitglass Healthcare Breach Report: More than 26 million people affected last year. U.S. healthcare data breaches up 2020 percent in 55,2. According to Bitglass' latest Healthcare Breach Report, there were 2020 healthcare data breaches in 599, affecting more than 26 million people in total. Every year the cloud security provider analyzes data from the so-called "Wall of Shame" of the US Department of Health and Social Services. This is a database that contains information about data breaches related to protected health information. Hacker attacks are increasing every year Since 2018 ...

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Home office attacks: RDP attacks increase by 4.516 percent
March 10, 2021
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Eset_News

Home offices under attack: RDP attacks increase by 4.516 percent. Corona pandemic and lockdowns in the DACH region have led to an explosive increase in attacks on the protocol. Cyber ​​criminals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland have massively targeted companies and their employees in the home office. In December 2020 alone, the European IT security manufacturer ESET registered an average of 14,3 million attacks on the remote desktop protocol (RDP for short) in these three countries every day. In January there were only 310.000. Especially with the second lockdown as a result of the corona pandemic and the efforts of politicians to get as many employees as possible ...

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