Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup
Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: MyFitnessPal Breach, Carbanak Leader Arrested
Under Armor announced this week that approximately 150 million users of the diet and fitness app MyFitnessPal had their personal information acquired by an unauthorized third party sometime in February 2018. As ...
Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Orbitz Breach, Facebook Privacy Fallout
One of the biggest data breach announcements of the past week belonged to Orbitz, which said on Tuesday that as many as 880,000 customers may have had their payment card and other ...
Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Russia Sanctions, Mossack Fonseca Shutdown, Equifax Insider Trading
On Thursday, the U.S. government imposed sanctions against five entities and 19 individuals for their role in “destabilizing activities” ranging from interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to carrying out destructive ...
Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Payment Card Breaches, Encryption Debate, and Breach Notification Laws
This past week saw the announcement of several new payment card breaches, including a point-of-sale breach at Applebee’s restaurants that affected 167 locations across 15 states. The malware, which was discovered on ...
Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Record-Setting DDoS Attacks, Data Breach Costs
Last week, researchers observed a 1.35 Tbps distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS) attack targeting GitHub. It was the largest DDoS attack ever recorded, surpassing the 1.2 Tbps attack against DNS provider Dyn in ...
Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: W-2 Theft, BEC Scams, and SEC Guidance
The FBI is once again warning organizations that there has been an increase in phishing campaigns targeting employee W-2 information. In addition, this week saw new breach notifications related to W-2 theft, ...
Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Olympic Malware and Russian Cybercrime
More information was revealed this week about the Olympic Destroyer malware and how it was used to disrupt the availability of the Pyeonchang Olympic’s official website for a 12-hour period earlier this ...
Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Cryptocurrency Attacks and a Major Cybercriminal Indictment
Cryptocurrency continued to make headlines this past week for a variety of cybercrime-related activities. For starters, researchers discovered a new cryptocurrency miner, dubbed ADB.Miner, that infected nearly 7,000 Android devices such as ...
Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Bitcoin Attacks Dominate Headlines, New Phishing Warnings
Several cryptocurrency exchanges were among the week’s top trending cybercrime targets due to a variety of different currency thefts, data breaches, and warnings from researchers. The most impactful incident occurred at the ...