More than half of organizations experienced a third-party data breach attributed to external privileged access, and subsequent lack of control, auditing, and monitoring.
560 million Ticketmaster customers have had personal information and possibly payment card data exposed as part of a 1.3 TB theft by the ShinyHunters hacking group. The data breach appeared on the underground hacking forum BreachForums and was put up for ransom for half a million dollars.
eCommerce retailers face the most significant risk from automated malicious software, with hackers deploying advanced bad bots in nearly two-thirds of account takeover attacks.
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.
Leading data breach cross-checking service Have I Been Pwned has added about 71 million email addresses from "Naz.API," a new dataset circulating on the dark web that contains a massive collection of leaked credentials and plaintext passwords.
Recent APAC survey reveals that most consumers feel business or government is more responsible for personal data security, and nearly all will sacrifice it for convenience and features.
Requirements by insurers to implement security controls are already on the rise as 80% of cyber insurance policyholders have filed a claim and 50% have filed more than one.
8 of 10 consumers prefer transacting with online brands having strong ID verification measures with 68% preferring digital identity use in the financial services sector.
Researchers found that although 80% of financial institutions suffered data breaches per year from vulnerabilities in their authentication methods, 64% refused to upgrade.
Among the major highlights of the Verizon Cyber Espionage Report: criminal organizations and former employees play a trivial role in overall attempts, the overwhelming majority come from states.
