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Industry News: ESG5

    World Bank and Partners Announce New Global Fund for Cybersecurity

    2021-08-16

    World Bank: Digital transformation is accelerating in many countries, offering new opportunities for economic growth and enabling low- and medium-income countries to leapfrog development through increased productivity and improved service delivery across key sectors, including finance, health, education, and agriculture.

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    FINRA Warns of Phishing Campaign Exploiting Imposter Domain Names

    2021-08-16

    IT Pro: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has warned of a new phishing campaign that involves fraudulent emails using domain names pretending to be the financial regulator.

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    Remote Working Brings Benefits, But Also sScurity Fears

    2021-08-12

    Hedge Week: The implications have been profound as it has become more critical than ever for management firms to offer staff – everyone from portfolio managers to back office teams – the ability to access essential systems remotely.

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    $600 Million Gone: The Biggest Crypto Theft in History

    2021-08-12

    CNN Business: Hackers have stolen some $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network, in what it says is the largest theft in the industry’s history. 

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    Ransomware Demands and Payments Hit New Records

    2021-08-10

    Computer Weekly: The average ransom paid by victim organisations has increased by 82% since 2020 to a record  $570,000, as cyber criminals intensify their ransomware efforts with increasingly aggressive tactics, according to data from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 security consulting group.

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    IBM Report: Cost of a Data Breach Hits Record High During Pandemic

    2021-07-28

    Yahoo Finance: IBM Security announced the results of a global study which found that data breaches now cost surveyed companies $4.24 million per incident on average – the highest cost in the 17-year history of the report.

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    Many Widely Exploited Hacks Known to Public for Two Years, Cyber Agencies Warn

    2021-07-28

    Yahoo News: Cybersecurity agencies have revealed the top 30 vulnerabilities exploited by hackers last year in a fresh warning to organisations. The UK and allies in the US and Australia said most exposures were already publicly known during the past two years and are often due to dated software.

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    Cybersecurity Investments Surge In 2021 As VCs Go All In

    2021-07

    TechTarget: Venture capitalists are investing heavily in cybersecurity as low series rounds receive record-setting funding, and analysts say the trend will only continue. 

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    ‘Substantial’ Rise in Fraud and Hacking During Coronavirus Pandemic

    2021-07-22

    Yahoo News: Fraud and hacking soared during the pandemic as criminals “took advantage of behavioural changes” while reports of domestic abuse-related offences also rose, official figures show.

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    The 10 Biggest Cybersecurity Acquisitions Of 2021 (So Far)

    2021-07-22

    CRN: Private equity goliaths, SPACs, and pure-play security mainstays spent nearly $31 billion on the year‘s top cybersecurity acquisitions, placing big bets on securing networks and endpoints as well as managing employee and customer access.

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