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Europe’s Top Insurance Providers have been found to have security weaknesses within their web application architecture, according to the latest research by Outpost24. The 2021 Web Application Security for Insurers Report analysed the web applications of the top 10 European insurance providers, as listed by ADV Rating, and found that every insurer had some degree of vulnerability or security weakness. In fact, it was discovered that the top EU insurers run a total of 7,611 internet exposed web applications over 1,920 domains, with 3% of them considered suspicious (e.g. testing...

This week, Brazilian healthcare giant Grupo Fleury suffered a ransomware attack. Business operations were impaired up to the point that systems had to be shut down, leaving patients unable to book appointments for labs and other medical examinations online. On the 22nd of June, the Grupo Fleury website began displaying a warning message, alerting to the fact that its systems were suffering an attack, but that the company was doing its best to remediate the damage. The message also...

Sony has reportedly faced a security breach which resulted in millions of PS3 IDs being leaked to the hackers. This is thought to be the reason behind lots of PS3 users reporting in the PSN forums that they were banned for no reason whatsoever, according to reporting from Sportskeeda. While there is not enough evidence to ratify the claim, it does not seem too far-fetched considering the circumstantial evidence at hand. There has been a...

A new cybersecurity coalition, which is backed by IT Security Guru, has launched this week in a move to fight back against ransomware. The coalition is part of a new movement headed by managed security service provider Talion, called #RansomAware, which encourages organisations to come clean on ransomware and speak up about the attacks they are facing. Today businesses are facing a tidal wave of ransomware attacks and recent data from Cybereason has revealed that...

Shortly after hitting Colonial Pipeline, Darkside developers announced they would be closing operations. Nevertheless, researchers at AT&T Alien Labs have observed evidence that the group has completed a Linux version of its malware that is targeting ESXi servers hosting VMware virtual machines. To this point, the authors announced the Darkside 2.0 version with Linux capabilities.   "Linux and UNIX servers have always been a preferred option for servers and data centers, likely due to the...

Recent research from security and privacy comparison and advice website Comparitech.com, which has looked at children's apps available through Google Play  has found that 1 in 5 breach COPPA rules. Even more worrying is that half of the apps that violate the rules have received a "teacher-approved" badge. COPPA, imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), enforces a number of requirements on operators of websites or online services that are aimed at under 13 year...

In a speech on Wednesday, the U.S. President, Joe Biden told the Russian President, that 16 sectors of critical infrastructure should be "off-limits" to attacks, specifically cyberattacks. Unfortunately, analysts believe his efforts to be futile. Robert Golladay, the EMEA and APAC director at Illusive claims that "the fact that one of the leaders of the free world stood up to discuss Ransomware on a global stage is significative. We are in the middle of a...

On Thursday, an online database belonging to CVS Health was discovered online. This was the result of another misconfigured cloud service, which can significantly impact security and lead to a massive data leak. The uncovered database was not password-protected and had no security defences in place to prevent access from unauthorised persons. The database was comprised of over a billion records connected to CVS Health and contained event and configuration data. These also included production...

CyberSmart has today announced the completion of a successful over-subscribed Series A funding round, bringing the total raised to over $10 million. Alongside deeptech fund IQ Capital and with the additional support of InsurTech specialist, Eos Venture Partners, and data science focused Winton Ventures, CyberSmart is set to further disrupt the cybersecurity market. The funding will be used to enhance their product’s capabilities further, invest in channel partnerships as well as scale into the UK...

According to a report published by Cybersecurity Ventures, ransomware payments are predicted to cost victims over $265 billion by 2031. This isn't difficult to imagine, given the recent streak of high-profile attacks, some of which caused a ripple effect that reflected on consumers finding themselves having to pay more for gas and finding heftier price tags one meat products. The real scale of the problem is somewhat hard to quantify since most companies would rather...