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Meanwhile … AT&T is notifying over 51 million customers that personal information being pedaled on the internet came from the company. - from Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for week ending Friday, April 12, 2024.

📰 Headline Highlights 📰

• Pacific Guardian Life Insurance notifying 167,000+ of data breach from phishing attack; and York County School of Technology breached; and New Mexico Highlands University attacked

• GHC-SCW: Ransomware gang stole health data of 533,000

• LG Smart TVs at Risk of Attacks

• Hospitals warned of hackers targeting IT help desks

• Attempted hack on NYC continues wave of cyberattacks against municipal governments

• Home Depot, refuses to go public, confirms worker data leak after miscreant dumps info online

In other news, while you might not know that the website you are using is a WordPress site, Hackers deploy crypto drainers on thousands of WordPress sites.

MUST READ: New Darcula iMessage Attack Targets iPhone Users In 100 Countries

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🤷‍♀️ What now?

From the barrage of cyber attacks to tax season check fraud

There’s been an inordinate amount of cyber attacks lately this year already but because you are an HX Weekly reader and tax deadline is on April 15th (in case you’re not aware of the date), we are again sharing some tips on preventing check fraud.

If you suspect fraud:

• Contact your financial institution and local law enforcement to file a report.

• If mail was involved, report it to the United States Postal Inspection Service at uspis.gov/report or call 1-877-876-2455.

Information in this section is from an email newsletter sent by Charles Schwab.

For our new subsection, “Must Read", we created it because the article has been hanging over our heads for a while. We thought the only way to send out warning about it is to share it.

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Glossary/Legend:

• Phishing Attack - a type of cyber attack where a malicious actor sends a fake message that appears to come from a trusted source.

• DRP - Disaster Response Plan. A plan on what to do in times when there is a disaster and you have lost your devices.

• Ransomware - is a set of technologies that allow computers to perform advanced functions. AI combines math, computer science, and cognitive science to mimic human behavior.

• Attack - When you see the word “attack” here, it most likely means cyber attacks of all forms.

• Deepfake - A synthetic media that has been manipulated to replace one person's likeness with another. Deepfakes are created by a special type of machine learning called "deep" learning. They can be videos, photos, or audio recordings that appear real but have been manipulated with AI.

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