Exploit: Unauthorized server breach.
The Football Association of Ireland: The governing body for the association of football in Ireland.
Risk to Small Business: 2.555 = Moderate Risk: Hackers gained access to the association’s servers, disabling their email and causing them to pour money into new cybersecurity initiatives. Fortunately, the organization’s ticket sales are conducted through a third-party merchant, and personal data is stored off-site, preventing the breach from being more extensive. However, because of the organization’s lax cybersecurity standards, they will now have to allocate more money to making repairs and positioning themselves for the future.
Individual Risk: 3 = Moderate Risk: While personal and financial information related to ticket sales were spared from this breach, hackers did have access to the organization’s email server, which could compromise personal information. Therefore, those impacted by the breach should monitor their accounts for unusual activity and create new, stronger passwords across logins.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: A strong cyber defense is critical for organizations of any size and industry. However, their response to a data breach is a close second. In this case, understanding what happens to the information accessed in the data breach can provide employees or customers to have confidence in the integrity of their personal information or credentials. Additionally, implementing cybersecurity training and awareness programs can stop potential compromises in their tracks by empowering your company’s front line: the staff.
ClearYolk to the Rescue: We monitor the Dark Web to find out if your employee or customer data has been compromised. We work with organisations to strengthen their security suite by offering industry-leading detection. Discover more at: https://www.idagent.com/dark-web.
Phishing Scams Are Getting More Sophisticated
Phishing scams, already a significant headache for companies of all sizes, are becoming more complicated. A recent study found that nearly half of all phishing attacks are polymorphic, meaning that they can implement slight but significant changes to multichannel formats and become more difficult to detect or prevent.
For instance, polymorphic phishing scams will use different email addresses, content, subject lines, sender names, or other features. Therefore, recipients are forced to fend off various versions of the same attack.
Phishing scams, which are frequently used to deliver malicious malware and ransomware, rely on users’ ambivalence to be successful, and they are defendable with proper training and preparation (like ours) from qualified MSPs. With polymorphic phishing scams on the rise, yesterday’s technical safeguards are being bypassed through sophistication, and the importance of cybersecurity awareness continues to grow in magnitude.
Phishing scams, which are frequently used to deliver malicious malware and ransomware, rely on users’ ambivalence to be successful, and they are defendable with proper training and preparation (like ours) from qualified MSPs. With polymorphic phishing scams on the rise, yesterday’s technical safeguards are being bypassed through sophistication, and the importance of cybersecurity awareness continues to grow in magnitude.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/half-phishing-attacks-are/
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/fai-data-breach-2019-season-tickets
