Tag: stolen data
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Backups ‘no longer effective’ for stopping ransomware attacks
- by Connor McBean
- Industry News
Traditional methods of mitigating ransomware are less efficacious thanks to the rise in double and triple extortion techniques The growth of double extortion – and even triple extortion – ransomware attacks is in danger of rendering common, traditional methods of mitigating the impact of a ransomware hit, such as well-maintained backups, less efficacious, according to […]
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Internet’s Biggest Card Theft Marketplace To Shut Down
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Joker’s Stash, a ‘dark web’ marketplace estimated to have generated more than $1 billion in sales of stolen payment card data, announces imminent shutdown Read via Silicon.
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Hackers steal Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data in Europe, companies say
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their COVID-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in a cyberattack on Europe’s medicines regulator. Read via Reuters UK.
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