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Ransomware Ransom Payments: A Geostrategic Risk

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Dissent

The following is a Google-translated statement addressing the significant and negative impact of ransom payments on the German economy and recommendations to reduce and eliminate the payment of ransoms. In the original German, “Lösegeldzahlungen bei Ransomware-Angriffen: ein geostrategisches Risiko” can be found at https://ransomletter.github.io/: Blackmail Trojans in the form of so-called ransomware have grown into…

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Expensive week for Carnival Corp: a $1.25 million settlement with states over one breach, then a $5 million settlement with New York for violating state cybersecurity regulation

Posted on June 26, 2022 by Dissent

It seems this was the week for following up on Carnival Corporation breaches. Earlier this week, state attorneys general announced a $1.25 million multistate settlement with the cruise line over a 2019 data breach first disclosed in 2020. But there was other news concerning the cruise line this week, too. On Friday, the New York…

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Everything old is new again? Ransomware groups stop encrypting and switch to theft/extortion model.

Posted on June 25, 2022 by Dissent

In a new post at The Register, Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports, in part: ….. Increasingly, however, cybercrime rings still tracked as ransomware operators are turning toward primarily data theft and extortion – and skipping the encryption step altogether. Rather than scramble files and demand payment for the decryption keys, and all the faff in between…

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FTC Finalizes Action Against CafePress for Covering Up Data Breach, Lax Security

Posted on June 25, 2022 by Dissent

CafePress Must Bolster Data Security Protections, Pay Half a Million Dollars The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order against CafePress over allegations that it failed to secure consumers’ sensitive personal data including Social Security numbers and covered up a major data breach. The Commission’s order requires the company to bolster its data security and requires its former…

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USB devices with personal data of all 460,000 Amagasaki residents lost

Posted on June 24, 2022 by Dissent

Kumiko Nakatatsuka reports: An employee who works for an Amagasaki city subcontractor lost USB storage devices containing residents’ personal information after drinking at a restaurant, the city government announced on June 23. The employee works for a company that was subcontracted by the Kansai regional branch of Biprogy Inc. in Osaka to pay pandemic relief subsidies…

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Phishing gang behind several million euros worth of losses busted in Belgium and the Netherlands

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Dissent

A cross-border operation, supported by Europol and involving the Belgian Police (Police Fédérale/Federale Politie) and the Dutch Police (Politie), resulted in the dismantling of an organised crime group involved in phishing, fraud, scams and money laundering. The action day on 21 June 2022 led to: 9 arrests in the Netherlands 24 house searches in the Netherlands…

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