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4 years, 3 months ago
Ransomware Payments, Demands Rose Dramatically in 2021
New data pulled from incident response cases by Unit 42 shows cyber-extortion attacks jumped by 85%.
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Incident coverage examines breaches, outages, and response failures to explain how security events affect systems, data, and organizations.
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An incident is a suspected or confirmed event that threatens the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information or systems, or violates a security policy. Examples include unauthorized access, malware execution, exposed credentials, data loss, and disruptive attacks. Not every alert is an incident: triage determines whether an event is credible, its scope, and the assets or data involved.
Incident handling requires timely detection, analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery. Practitioners must preserve relevant evidence, identify affected accounts and systems, assess whether data was accessed or altered, and prevent recurrence. Clear escalation and documentation support privacy or regulatory notifications when applicable. Findings should feed security improvements such as closing exploited vulnerabilities, strengthening access controls, and updating detection and response procedures.
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Info Security Magazine
4 years, 3 months ago
Okta CSO: Lapsus Incident Was “Embarrassing”
Firm confirms hackers accessed internal systems via RDP
The Register
4 years, 3 months ago
IT outage at Scotland's Heriot-Watt University enters second week
Multiple systems remain down as spokesperson confirms 'security incident' was cyber attack Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University has entered a second week of woe following a vist by an infosec nasty.…
The Hacker News
4 years, 3 months ago
Researchers Trace LAPSUS$ Cyber Attacks to 16-Year-Old Hacker from England
Authentication services provider Okta on Wednesday named Sitel as the third-party linked to a security incident experienced by the company in late January that allowed the LAPSUS$ extortion gang to remotely take over an internal account belonging to a customer support engineer
Bleeping Computer
4 years, 3 months ago
Okta confirms support engineer's laptop was hacked in January
Okta, a major provider of access management systems, has completed its investigation into a breach incident claimed by the Lapsus$ data extortion group. [...]
Bleeping Computer
4 years, 3 months ago
Greece's public postal service offline due to ransomware attack
ELTA, the state-owned provider of postal services in Greece, has disclosed a ransomware incident detected on Sunday that is still keeping most of the organizations services offline. [...]