The personal data of thousands of patients is at stake as a couple of healthcare facilities disclosed data breach incidents. In other news, a major Japanese multinational firm exposed data of its job applicants. Beware! An info-stealer has been spotted laying bait as an Omicron-based app. With this, let’s review the key highlights in the cybersecurity landscape for the day.
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Florida Digestive Health Specialists notified over 212,000 patients of a breach that exposed their personal and medical records via compromised employee email accounts.
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Georgia-based Ciox Health disclosed unauthorized access to an employee email account that culminated in exposing the personal information, including SSNs, of nearly 12,500 people.
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Tech giant Panasonic revealed that cybercriminals hijacked one of their servers and accessed sensitive information of the job applicants.
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The Durham District School Board exposed the names of nearly 800 unvaccinated staff to 400 individuals due to a lapse in a routine email.
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Famous streamers and traders connected to EA Sports FIFA 22 lost millions of coins, as well as access to their EA accounts in a social engineering attack.
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The FBI, CISA, and the NSA warned all critical infrastructure entities of ongoing targeted attacks from Russian state-sponsored adversaries and also released an advisory containing their TTPs.
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Fortinet discovered RedLine info-stealer impersonating the COVID-19 Omicron stat counter app as a lure to steal several pieces of information, including credentials, credit card data, and crypto wallet data.
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Netskope reported that cloud-delivered malware have increased to 66% as compared to web-delivered malware from 46% at the beginning of 2020.
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Cisco Talos unearthed a new malware campaign involving variants of three RATs, namely Netwire, Nanocore, and AsyncRAT, spreading via public cloud infrastructure.
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Proofpoint acquired Singapore-based data security startup Dathena in a bid to strengthen its cloud-based security solutions.
