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Everything to Know About Essendant’s Multi-Day Outage

Everything to Know About Essendant’s Multi-Day Outage

March 29, 2023BlogNo Comments »

Essendant, a Staples-owned wholesale distributor of office supplies and stationery, paused its operations recently because of a multi-day, network-wide outage. The system disruption has prevented customers from placing orders online or contacting the company’s customer care unit. While Essendant has yet to disclose the reason behind the outage, many think someone had hacked into the company’s system. Customers are expressing...

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

March 28, 2023BlogNo Comments »

Microsoft released on March 14, 2023, a security update that fixes at least 74 bugs in Windows and other software. Hackers are already attacking two flaws, including a very serious one in Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Outlook Vulnerability The Outlook bug, CVE-2023-23397, affects all versions of Microsoft Outlook from 2013 to the most recent one. Microsoft said that threat actors are...

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AT&T Data Breach – 9 Million Affected

AT&T Data Breach – 9 Million Affected

March 27, 2023BlogNo Comments »

In a recent statement, telecommunications giant AT&T confirmed that a hack on a vendor it was working with exposed around 9 million accounts. AT&T said that the sensitive information was mainly about device upgrade eligibility. The hacking happened in January 2023 using a weakness in the vendor's system. The hackers accessed customer data, such as their names, addresses, phone numbers,...

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Hiatus Malware Targets Business Routers

Hiatus Malware Targets Business Routers

March 25, 2023BlogNo Comments »

There is a new malware campaign targeting business-grade routers. It is called Hiatus, a complex operation that deploys the HiatusRAT malware. It is a kind of Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that cybercriminals use to gain remote control over a target system. Hiatus is the first of its kind. Lumen's security experts say it has been around since July 2022 and...

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Cerebral Data Breach – 3.18 Million Affected

Cerebral Data Breach – 3.18 Million Affected

March 24, 2023BlogNo Comments »

Cerebral, an online platform that offers mental health care services, recently suffered a data breach that may have affected up to 3.18 million users. According to its report, the breach was due to the company’s use of third-party pixel trackers. Cerebral did not say the exact number of users affected. However, the company said it had taken steps to ease...

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Reduce the Risk of Business Email Compromise Attacks

Reduce the Risk of Business Email Compromise Attacks

March 23, 2023BlogNo Comments »

Email threats have been around since the early 90s. But phishing techniques are much more sophisticated now than they were back then. One of the most successful and lucrative tactics is business email compromise (BEC). BEC scams have stolen over $43 billion from businesses worldwide between July 2019 and December 2021. Threat actors are making more money from it than...

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Maintain Customer Trust By Scaling Up IT Systems

Maintain Customer Trust By Scaling Up IT Systems

March 22, 2023BlogNo Comments »

Every business owner knows that forming a strong relationship with customers is essential to succeed. And two important elements of this relationship are positive customer experience and customer trust. Having these will help you bring in new customers and repeat or loyal customers. With businesses relying more on computer systems for various functions, data breaches have become one of the...

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Hatch Bank Falls Victim to Data Breach

Hatch Bank Falls Victim to Data Breach

March 21, 2023BlogNo Comments »

Hatch Bank confirmed a data breach that compromised its customers' personal data. The financial technology firm said hackers found a vulnerability in its internal file-transfer software. This allowed the hackers to access and steal around 140,000 customer names and social security numbers from Jan. 30-31, 2023. Hatch is using Fortra's GoAnywhere file-transfer platform. Many other large businesses also use GoAnywhere...

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Chick-fil-A Confirms Credential Stuffing Attack

Chick-fil-A Confirms Credential Stuffing Attack

March 20, 2023BlogNo Comments »

Credential stuffing is one of the many forms of cyberattacks on the rise. It's a low-risk, low-cost automated method. It uses bots to access username-password combinations from past data breaches. It then uses that information to exfiltrate data from a new target system. It relies on people's habit of reusing the same login credential across various sites. Chick-fil-A is one...

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US Government: Royal Ransomware Targets Critical Infrastructure

US Government: Royal Ransomware Targets Critical Infrastructure

March 18, 2023BlogNo Comments »

The United States government is alerting organizations about the Royal ransomware operation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a joint advisory that the Royal ransomware gang poses an increasing threat to critical infrastructure of numerous sectors in the U.S. The Royal ransomware group has been targeting different sectors across the...

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