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The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (Ticker – EL) NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) — July 18, 2023 — The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) has identified a cybersecurity incident, which involves an unauthorized third party that has gained access to some of the Company’s systems.  After becoming aware of the incident, the Company proactively took down…
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Hewlett Packard Enterprises (Ticker – HPE) On December 12, 2023, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (the “Company,” “HPE,” or “we”) was notified that a suspected nation-state actor, believed to be the threat actor Midnight Blizzard, the state-sponsored actor also known as Cozy Bear, had gained unauthorized access to HPE’s cloud-based email environment. The Company, with assistance…
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The AHA has been made aware of a validated IT help desk social engineering scheme that uses the stolen identity of revenue cycle employees or employees in other sensitive financial roles. The scheme involves what is presumably a foreign-based threat actor calling IT help desks and leveraging stolen personally identifiable information of employees to answer…
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“What I should have done is say, ‘Can I call you back?’ or ‘Can I go to the bank and handle this.’”….Andy Cohen Andy Cohen, the hit television and radio host revealed the scheme during a December episode of his Daddy Diaries podcast. We can all learn from his mistake. Cohen explained that the scam began after he had lost a…
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LockBit shows no remorse for ransomware attack on children’s hospital Ransomware gang LockBit is claiming responsibility for an attack on a Chicago children’s hospital in an apparent deviation from its previous policy of not targeting nonprofits. Stooping to new lows, the criminals are reportedly unwilling to reverse the attack on Saint Anthony Hospital, as they…
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Cyber-criminals are working together more than ever to disrupt businesses across the globe. Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to the “democratization” of the phishing ecosystem owing to the emergence of Telegram as an epicenter for cybercrime, enabling threat actors to mount a mass attack for as little as $230. “This messaging app has transformed into…
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Today’s cyber landscape has provided ample opportunities for criminals and adversaries to target U.S. networks, attack our critical infrastructure, hold our money and data for ransom, facilitate large-scale fraud schemes, and threaten our national security.  At the FBI, we know “cyber risk is business risk” and “cyber security is national security.” There is no shortage of recent…
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