Armed Conflict Draws Ever Closer As State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks Increase By 100% Over The Last Three Years

Armed Conflict Draws Closer as State-Backed Cyber-Attacks Intensify

Amazon Web Services: FBI Arrest 28 Year Old For Allegedly Planning To Bomb AWS Data Center In Virginia That Could Have Taken Out 70% Of The Internet

FBI arrests man for plan to kill “70% of Internet” in AWS bomb attack

Ansal Housing: Indian Real Estate Developer's Ransomware Attacks Result In Email System Disruption And Possible Data Loss

Ansal Housing witnessed multiple ransomware attacks on its IT Infrastructure

Cring Ransomware: Fortinet FortiGate VPN Server Users Targeted With Ransomware Attacks Exploiting Unpatched Vulnerability

Hackers Exploit Fortinet Flaw in Sophisticated Cring Ransomware Attacks

Trinity Health: Michigan Healthcare System's Third-Party Data Breach Compromises 586,869 Patients' Personal Health Information

500,000+ Trinity Health patients affected in widespread Accellion data breach

Pierre Fabre: French Pharmaceutical And Cosmetics Group's "REvil" Ransomware Attack Results In $25 Million Ransom Demand

Leading cosmetics group Pierre Fabre hit with $25 million ransomware attack

564% Increase In US Data Breach Victims In Q1 2021 Affecting 51 Million People Compared To 8 Million In Q4 2020

Number of US Breach Victims Jumps 564% in Q1 2021

Lazarus Group: North Korean State-Sponsored APT Group's New "Vyveva" Backdoor Malware Used To Attack South African Logistics Company

Vyveva: Lazarus hacking group’s latest weapon strikes South African freight

Gigaset: German Android Phone Manufacturer's Cyber Attack Compromises Update Server Resulting In Users' Phones Infected With Malware

Gigaset Android phones infected by malware via hacked update server

CHPDC: Washington DC Health Insurance Provider Suffers Data Breach Potentially Compromising Up To 3.4 Million Customers' Data

Major DC insurance provider hacked by 'foreign cybercriminals'

City Of Lawrence: Massachusetts City's Ransomware Attack Results In IT Systems Disruption Across Multiple Departments

City of Lawrence hit with significant ransomware attack

Swarmshop: Stolen Payment Card Trading Forum's Data Breach Results In 623,036 Card Details And 12,344 Users' Data Leaked On Dark Web

Hackers leak data, 600k card info from Swarmshop cybercrime forum

REvil/Sodinokibi: Ransomware Operator's New Ransomware Update Can Now Change Windows Passwords To Auto-Login In Safe Mode

REvil ransomware now changes password to auto-login in Safe Mode

Phishing Emails Most Commonly Originated From Lithuania, Latvia, Serbia, Ukraine And Russia In 2020

Phishing Emails Most Commonly Originate from Eastern Europe

Russian Hacker Sells 330,000 Payment Cards And 895,000 Gift Cards From 3,010 Brands With $38 Million Redemption Value On The Dark Web

Hacker Sold 330,000 Credit Cards and 895,000 Gift Cards on the Dark Web

Haverhill Public Schools: US Public School District's Ransomware Attack Forces IT Systems Shutdown And School Closures

Ransomware Attack on Haverhill Schools Shuts Down Remote Learning, Cancels Thursday’s First Day Back for Some

Office Depot Europe: Dutch Office Equipment Retailer's Unsecure Server Exposes 974,050 Employees' And Customers' Personal Information

Office Depot Europe Exposed One Million Customer Records Online

European Commission: Belgian European Union Organization Suffers Cyber Attack Affecting Multiple EU Organizations' IT Systems

European Commission, other EU orgs recently hit by cyber-attack

Global Data Breaches - March 2021

March 2021 saw another 152 Data Breaches reported which accounted for 120.2 Million Data Records reported compromised.

March's total amount of Data Breaches reported increased by over 28% from last month, but the total amount of Data Records reported compromised decreased by over 94% from last month.

The hardest hit sectors were Healthcare, Education and Public Sector, with most breach types continuing to be Cyber Attack, Internal Error and Ransomware, accounting for over 74% of total Data Breaches reported this year.

Currently this takes the yearly totals so far to 352 Data Breaches reported and 3.3 Billion Data Records reported comprised as of the end of March 2021.

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Ransomware Attacks Increased By 485% In 2020 With 64% Of Attacks Exploiting COVID-19 Pandemic In First 6 Months

Ransomware Attacks Grew by 485% in 2020