by Hunter Feybusch
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by Hunter Feybusch
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- Stealthlabs Cybersecurity reports that malicious employee caused data security breaches are up 47%
- Recent example of employees using their access o valuable data for monetary gain include
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which has a large plant in phoenix, with intent to sell the information to competitors
- The US Army reported that soldier, Taylor Adam Lee, was arrested for allegedly for attempting to sell top secret design details of the M21A2 Abrams tank to Russian government
- Montefiore Hospital of Bronx, New York announced that former employee, Wilkins Estrella, was arrested for stealing the PHI of more than 4,000 patients to file fraudulent gov assistance claims totaling more than $1.6 million.
- Mr. Estrella facing up to 30 years in prison
- (Konica Minolta offers Breach Alert which monitors all copies, prints, scans, faxes, and emails which can help prevent incidents like these)
Research published by Cenuswide and Semperis Cybersecurity 77% of healthcare organizations were targeted with ransomware in past 12 months 60% report multiple attack attempts 53% pay the ransom to hackers 62% of the time, hackers threaten to release PHI
Rapid7 Cybersecurity announced its researchers found “two flaws affecting Xerox Versalink MFP’s (Versalink A3 MFPs are manufactured by Fujifilm) Could allow hackers to steal login credentials Malicious actor could alter the MFP’s configurations Also may hijack the MFP’s scan to file feature Potentially compromising Windows Active Directory Xerox issued patches to rectify
Cloudflare Cybersecurity reports a record-breaking DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack that peaked on 7.3 Terabits per second (Tbps) The attack attempted to deliver 37.4 terabytes of network traffic equivalent of over 9,000 high definition full length movies attack lasted on 45 seconds “The attack carpet bombed an aver of 21,925 destination ports of a […]
The FBI announced that China has opened the PLA information Support Force Engineering University in Wuhan, China Will offer undergraduate majors to create AI-powered cyber terrorists Includes artificial intelligence warfare programs to teach students how to hack into organizations in the U.S. Will deploy autonomous cyber weapons capable of adapting and evolving to penetrate customer […]
