Threat actors accessed personally identifiable information (PII) and Social Security numbers of more than 1.5 million customers in the Flagstar Bank data breach.
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The lack of API security is responsible for every 1 in 13 cybersecurity incidents, with annual global losses of up to $75 billion and 57% affecting American businesses.
67% of businesses suffered subsequent cyber attacks within a year after the first incident, with 10% recording ten or more repeated breaches. Medium-sized firms were most impacted.
Digital Shadows Photon Research team found that over 24 billion stolen user credentials were available for sale on the dark web market in 2022, an increase of 65% in two years.
According to the Phishing Activity Trends Report by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), phishing attacks surpassed one million for the first time in three months in the first quarter of 2022.
Ransomware attack on Palermo city disrupted municipal services including video surveillance management, municipal police operations, online bookings, and digital communication channels.
Healthcare provider Shields Health Care Group suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive personal health information for at least 2 million patients.
Analysis of leaked chats shows that the Russian Conti ransomware gang had developed proof-of-concept code for stealthy firmware attacks targeting Intel's Management Engine.
Sophos found that 64% of healthcare organizations chose to pay ransom after ransomware attacks in 2021, up from 34% in 2020, but only 2% of payers recovered all encrypted data.
The FBI warned higher education institutions that cyber criminals were selling their login credentials on publicly-accessible and dark web Russian hacker forums.
