- Total Testing Solutions, a COVID-19 testing organization headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, notified 60,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after it was inadvertently made available on a publicly assessable website.
- Willdan Group Inc., headquartered in Anaheim, CA, notified an unknown number of customers that their info was exposed after a ransomware attack.
- Rockwood School District of Eureka, Missouri, notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after a ransomware attack.
- Ameritas Corp. of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sued by former customers in regards to a breach which impacted 39,000 customers in total.
- South Florida Community Care of Sunrise, FL, notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after it was illegally accessed by an employee.
- JPMorgan Chase Bank, headquartered in New York City, NY, notified an unknown number of customers that their info was exposed due to a “technical bug”
- University Medical Center of Las Vegas, NV, notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- Dark Reading published results of survey:
- 35% of organizations have a managed services provider delivering 50% or more of their security requirements
- Total spend will top $72.4 billion this year on global security solutions & services
- 700% increase in malware attacks on IoT devices on the network
- Med-Data of Spring, Texas notified 750,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after it was illegally accessed by a former employee.
- Chico State University of California notified 130 students that their info was exposed after it was illegally accessed and posted to the Internet.
- Palo Alto Networks Security published article warning of 4 new ransomware hacking groups:
- AvosLocker
- Hive
- HelloKitty
- LockBit 2.0
- Revere Health, which has locations across Utah, notified 12,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
- CyberEdge Group published cybersecurity report:
- 86% of surveyed IT leaders say their organization was compromised by cyberattack in past year
- 92.3% = education vertical
- 90.3% = manufacturing vertical
- 87.4% = telecom industry
- 85.5% = finance vertical
- 84.6% = healthcare vertical
- 81.7% = retail
- 72.5% = government
- 69% have been hit by ransomware
- 13% of average IT budget is spent on security
- 76% believe they will be compromised in next year
- 86% of surveyed IT leaders say their organization was compromised by cyberattack in past year
On a scale of 1 to 5, rating organization’s security posture for IoT endpoint devices (which includes MFPs) = 3.93
- Which of the following security solutions are in place to protect network
endpoints?
• 70.5% = basic anti-malware
• 56.8% = advanced anti-malware
• 58.1% = data loss/leak prevention
• 55.1% = whitelist/blacklist
• 54% = disk encryption
• 51.3% = incident resolution
SonicWall published Cyber Threat Report:
- 23% increase in past year of cryptojacking
- 26% increase in encrypted threats
- 59% increase in IoT attacks (includes MFPs)
- 151% increase in ransomware attacks (188.9 million) during past
quarter
The FBI published warning about a ransomware group named “OnePercent”
- Rents access to Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform
- Orchestrates intrusions into corporate networks, encrypts files and then pays commissions from successful extortions
Realtek Semiconductor of Taiwan is warning owners of IoT devices of a security
vulnerability that allows hackers to attack using Mirai malware. 65 brands of devices at risk including:
o Belkin
o D-Link
o Logitec
o Netgear
o Asus