The 2021 OT/ICS Cybersecurity Report confirms that threats to industrial operations are rising both in number and severity and while monitoring is up, but 48% say that they cannot be sure that they have not been breached.
The 2022 ICS Cybersecurity Report sees the majority of organizations recognizing ICS threats as being very serious; 22% ranked them as "critical" and 41% ranked them as "high" priority, representing a slow but steady increase over the past several years.
ICS vulnerabilities affecting critical infrastructure increased by 41% within 6 months, with most rated high/critical, having low attack complexity, and remotely exploitable.
Online trust and identity management giant Entrust suffered a security breach by a notorious ransomware gang that exfiltrated files from the company’s internal network.
The FTC reported that identity theft doubled during the pandemic as scammers targeted COVID-19 relief payments to individuals and government-sponsored loans for small businesses.
About 50% of those who had information stolen say they were victimized more than once. And the number of people that lost at least $10,000 to personal data theft jumped from 9% of respondents to 30% in 2021.
ITRC report noted that the 3,205 data breaches recorded last year shatters the prior record of 1,860 and is a 78% increase from a similar number (1,806) seen in 2022.
Internal emails reveal that leading furniture retailer IKEA is battling an ongoing campaign of phishing attacks, fueled by internal and vendor accounts that have already been compromised.
Biometric privacy lawsuit names Amazon, Google parent company Alphabet and Microsoft as violators of BIPA for their use of IBM's facial recognition database to train their own facial recognition systems.
Impact of cyber attacks on RavnAir has forced at least a dozen flights out of the air on a busy travel weekend in December and it seems that there may be more delayed and canceled flights into February.
