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The target: The American Land Title Association (ALTA)
The take: Usernames and passwords of insurance agents, abstracters and underwriters.
The attack vector: A threat actor claiming to be an ethical hacker who claimed they had access to over 600 records. They also enacted a phishing campaign asking members to open a PDF listing the membership directory to confirm their information.
Business Standard: An estimated two million cyber attacks in 2018 resulted in more than $45 billion in losses worldwide as local governments struggled to cope with ransomware and other malicious incidents, a study showed.
Reuters: Mozilla said in a statement it was rejecting the UAE’s bid to become a globally recognized internet security watchdog, empowered to certify the safety of websites for Firefox users.
Mozilla said it made the decision because cybersecurity firm DarkMatter would have administered the gatekeeper role and it had been linked by Reuters and other reports to a state-run hacking program.
Financial Review: The venture capital arm of National Australia Bank has led a $US10 million ($14 million) investment in Silicon Valley-based cyber security start-up Digital Shadows, a business which helps brands identify their exposure to cyber threats and better manage their digital assets.
Bloomberg: The cyber attack, which Marriott disclosed last year, exposed information on 339 million guest records, including 7 million related to British residents, the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office said in a statement. It’s the second time in two days the regulator has taken advantage of far-reaching European Union powers after proposing a 183.4 million-pound penalty against British Airways.
CBC: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and its Quebec equivalent said the probes will examine whether Desjardins was in compliance with federal and provincial laws around personal information protection.
Orange: With more than 660 employees, SecureLink reported revenues of 248 million euros in 2018. Today, the company serves more than 2,100 customers from a wide range of industries. SecureLink offers its customers specialist services in cybersecurity consulting, security maintenance and around-the-clock support from its “CyberSOCs” (Cyber Security Operations Centers), as well as advanced incident detection and response capabilities.
Mondaq: The Canadian government’s Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (“CCCS”) has released Baseline cybersecurity controls for small and medium organizations in an effort to help small and medium-sized businesses improve their cybersecurity practices and their overall resiliency to cybersecurity threats.
The target: Attunity, a company that manages and safeguards data.
The take: Passwords and network information about Attunity as well as emails and technology designs from some of its high-profile customers.
The attack vector: Attunity's cloud storage was improperly configured so the sensitive data was publicly visible in plain text. More than a terabyte of data was left unsecured on Amazon Web Services cloud-computer servers.
Israel Hayom: Two Israeli brothers, Eli and Asaf Gigi broke into Bitfinex, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, and stole $100 million from virtual accounts holding bitcoins, the financial daily Globes reported this week. The brothers were arrested by the Israel Police cyber unit on suspicion of committing phishing fraud on an international scale...
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