Identity theft will continue to rise in 2025. According to the Better Business Bureau of Missouri (BBB), it received over 16,000 identity theft complaints in the past three years. Scammers are “increasingly using advanced...more
Unfortunately, identity theft continues to increase, and according to Identitytheft.org, the statistics are going to get worse in 2025. Some of the statistics cited by Identitytheft.org include:
1.4 million complaints of...more
We have educated our readers about phishing, smishing, QRishing, and vishing scams, and now we’re warning you about what we have dubbed “snailing.” Yes, believe it or not, threat actors have gone retro and are using snail...more
We have repeatedly warned our readers about malicious QR codes and their use by threat actors.
Threat actors are now using these codes to disguise packages as gifts....more
1/30/2025
/ Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Fraud ,
Identity Theft ,
Personal Data ,
Personal Information ,
Scams
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New York Governor Proposes Cybersecurity Regulations for NY Hospitals -
On November 13, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul released proposed cybersecurity regulations applicable to all hospitals located within...more
11/17/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Sales Transactions ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
FCC ,
Hackers ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Identity Theft ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform
According to a press release, Personal Touch, a home health company located on Long Island, has reached a settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James for $350,000 for a data breach that occurred in January of 2021...more
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Joint Advisory Warns of Snatch Ransomware -
The FBI and CISA issued a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory “#StopRansomware: Snatch Ransomware” on September 20, 2023. The Advisory outlines the indicators of...more
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Joint Commission Issues Alert on Patient Safety After a Cyber-Attack -
On August 15, 2023, the Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert entitled “Preserving patient safety after a cyberattack,”...more
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Health Care Organizations Warned of Venus Ransomware -
The Health Care Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (IC3) recently released an Analyst’s Note to health care organizations providing information...more
11/23/2022
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Facebook ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Identity Theft ,
Instagram ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Spyware ,
Vulnerability Assessments
Dark Reading reports that thousands of college and university students are being targeted by cyber-attackers who are using a legitimate domain to impersonate Instagram and steal credentials of the users. The attack is able to...more
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Hackers Experimenting with Deploying Destructive Malware -
It’s a cold, hard fact that hackers don’t really care about their victims or their victims’ data or business. They are greedy, evil human...more
9/30/2022
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ,
Hackers ,
Healthcare ,
Identity Theft ,
Location Data ,
Malware ,
Online Safety for Children ,
Patient Access ,
Ransomware ,
Samsung
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FBI Issues Notice to Health Industry Highlighting Risks of Unpatched Medical Devices -
The FBI issued a Private Industry Notification targeted to the health care sector on September 12, 2022, warning...more
9/19/2022
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
FBI ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Online Safety for Children ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Vulnerability Assessments
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CISA + MS-ISAC Alert: Threat Actors Exploiting Zimbra Collaboration Suite -
On August 16, 2022, CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis...more
8/24/2022
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
FBI ,
Hackers ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Identity Theft ,
Information Technology ,
Popular ,
Robots ,
Scams ,
Vulnerability Assessments
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Twilio Hit with Social Engineering Smishing Scheme -
We’ve explained smishing schemes before. Smishing is like phishing, but uses SMS texting to deliver malicious code to users’ phones, or tricks the user...more
8/12/2022
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Class Action ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Data Breach ,
Drones ,
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Information Technology ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Phishing Scams ,
Popular ,
Social Engineering
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Cloaked Ursa Using Trusted Online Storage Services to Evade Detection -
According to research by Palo Alto’s Unit 42, the most recent campaign by advanced persistent threat Cloaked Ursa (aka APT 20,...more
7/22/2022
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Drones ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Malware ,
National Security ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
TikTok ,
Vulnerability Assessments
Online mortgage lender Lending Tree sent breach notification letters to affected individuals on June 29, 2022. The letter advises those persons that their name, social security number...more
According to the 2022 State of Ransomware Report issued recently by Sophos, it surveyed 5,600 IT professionals from 31 countries, including professionals in the health care sector. Those professionals in the health care...more
6/29/2022
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Electronic Medical Records ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Identity Theft ,
Information Technology ,
PHI ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Vulnerability Assessments
According to the 2022 State of Ransomware Report issued recently by Sophos, it surveyed 5,600 IT professionals from 31 countries, including professionals in the health care sector. Those professionals in the health care...more
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Intelligence Points to Likely Russian Attacks on Critical Infrastructure -
The cybersecurity authorities of the United States (including CISA, FBI, NSA and DOE), Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the...more
4/22/2022
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Russia ,
Scams ,
Ukraine
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Chinese APT41 Attacking State Networks -
Although we are receiving frequent alerts from CISA and the FBI about the potential for increased cyber threats coming out of Russia, China continues its cyber...more
3/11/2022
/ China ,
COPPA ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Drones ,
Elder Abuse ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Information Technology ,
Military Conflict ,
Online Safety for Children ,
Russia ,
Ukraine
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CISA/FBI Advisory Warns of Destructive Malware Used Against Ukraine -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI issued a joint advisory this week alerting organizations of...more
3/4/2022
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
FBI ,
Hackers ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Identity Theft ,
Information Blocking Rules ,
Malware ,
Passwords ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Russia ,
T-Mobile ,
Ukraine ,
Vulnerability Assessments
On March 2, 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta urged individuals affected by the T-Mobile breach in 2021 to take advantage of resources to assist with preventing or responding to identity theft. According to the...more
EyeMed Vision Care, LLC, was the victim of a hacking incident in 2020 that compromised the personal information of 2.1 million consumers, including their names, addresses, Social Security numbers, member numbers of health and...more
Passwords are so difficult to remember. We all know we shouldn’t use the same or similar passwords across platforms. Stolen password credentials are dumped on the dark web and criminals use the stolen passwords to steal other...more
1/20/2022
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Darknet ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Malware ,
Passwords ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Vulnerability Assessments
According to The Identity Theft Research Center (ITRC), data breaches in 2021 surpassed the previous record year of 2020 by 17 percent. The incidents ranged from the theft of cryptocurrency (Livecoin went out of business...more