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The Wild West of Cyber Attacks - August 2014

It's the WILD WEST Out there! MAJOR DATA BREACHES ANNOUNCED IN AUGUST 2014 POS malware 900 August 26 infections at two OTTO PIZZERIA OTTO pizzeria PORTLAND, MAINE victims locations in Maine RETAIL August 21 UPS - UNITED PARCEL SERVICE 51 7 24 Hit by Data Franchises States Breech August 15 SUPERVALU 180 21 Data SUPERMARKET CHAIN Stores O O States Breech 9. August 15 ALBERTSON'S States 4 August 15 ACME States 3 August 15 JEWEL-OSCO States Unknown number affected out of August 5 2,900 Possible GOODWILL INDUSTRIES Security Breach Stores UNDISCLOSED August 5 WIRELESS EMPORIUM compromised by malware Number of victims Internal records stolen 25,000 24 August 27 Cyber Attack DHS employees HEALTHCARE Patient records stolen August 19 COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS 4.5M E Patient records August 18 COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS 4.5M В Allegedly Chinese Hackers 60,000 August 13 Subcontractor ONSITE HEALTH breach DIAGNOSTICS victims August 6 WESTERN REGIONAL CENTER 12,000 O Insider breach victims II 72,500 August 5 Security Breach TOTALBANK BANKS IN FLORIDA victims UNKNOWN August 28 J.P. MORGAN CHASE FBI Probes Possible Hacking number of victims SHERIFF AVOID APPEARING ON A FUTURE INFOGRAPHIC OF DATA BREACHES It's time to start accurately detecting the ACTIVE attacks that ALREADY exist on your network! LIGHTCYBER

The Wild West of Cyber Attacks - August 2014

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August 2014 was a really wild month in regards to cyber attacks. The retail attacks became mainstream and the same malware that was used for a targeted attack on Target is now mass malware that target... s any retail company to steal credit card numbers. It is clear that once the attackers know how to do it once and generate revenues, they can replicate the same process to attack other companies with much less effort. They still need to make some effort to gain entry into the the network and then perform the relevant lateral movement, however, once they are in they can then reuse the techniques to patch the POS with their specialized malware, stream the card numbers to the outside, and more importantly convert credit card numbers to cash on the black market. Once the attackers have this infrastructure within the black market it lowers the bar for new attacks. Once one attack is successful another one is fast to deploy. Meanwhile, the defenders are finding it impossible to incorporate new security tools and systems at a similar rate to the attackers. In the below infographic we have selected some of the main cyber attacks that occurred during August 2014, but it looks as thought September will also be an interesting month.

The Wild West of Cyber Attacks - August 2014

The Wild West of Cyber Attacks - August 2014

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