By a Biometrica staffer Transportation was one of four industries that suffered the highest percentage of malicious attacks last year, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020,...
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By a Biometrica staffer Experts and lawmakers across the country are sounding the alarm over what seems to be a cyber free-for-all on American businesses, infrastructure systems, and industries. President...
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By a Biometrica staffer Earlier this month, the Morgan County school system in West Virginia was hit by a cyberattack, presumably from a Russia-based group, in which the files and...
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By a Biometrica staffer Multiple news sites began reporting on Tuesday, July 13, that REvil, the Russia-based group responsible for one of the largest ransomware attacks in history, had gone...
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By a Biometrica staffer It was in April that cybersecurity firm FireEye said on its Threat Research Blog that Chinese hackers suspected to be state-backed had exploited widely used networking...
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By a Biometrica staffer INTERPOL announced on June 8 that it had succeeded in taking down a “record number” of fraudulent online pharmacies and arresting 277 people worldwide with the...
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By a Biometrica staffer There were 13,638 victims of real estate/rental fraud in 2020, amounting to a loss of over $213 million according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI)...
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By Aara Ramesh On Monday, May 17, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released data about cryptocurrency investment scams, as reported by consumers in October 2020–March 2021. In that six-month period,...
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By Aara Ramesh The fallout of last week’s ransomware cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline continues. On Wednesday, May 12, the Biden–Harris administration announced that it was implementing an all-of-government plan to...
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By a Biometrica staffer Just last month, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said in a blog that over the last five years, ransomware has evolved from being “a threat to individual computers...
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