PharMerica is a huge service provider that works with many of the pharmacies and medical facilities in the United States today. The company offers its services to more than 2,500 facilities and over 3,100 pharmacies, and providing the data services to all those companies requires storing massive amounts of HIPAA-protected information. Unfortunately, this pharmaceutical services giant suffered a recent data breach compromising data for millions of different patients.
RID hijacking is a persistence technique used by adversaries who have compromised a Windows machine. In a nutshell, attackers use the RID (relative identifier) of the local Administrator account to grant admin privileges to the Guest account (or another local account). That way, they can take actions using the Guest account, which is normally not under the same level of surveillance as the Administrator account, to expand their attack while remaining undetected.
Imagine clicking on a seemingly harmless link and unknowingly giving away your personal and financial information to cybercriminals. Sounds like a nightmare, right? This nightmare became a reality for thousands of people in Australia and New Zealand when Latitude Financial Services suffered a massive data breach in March of 2023. Let’s take a look at the implications of the Latitude data breach and what you can do to protect yourself from falling victim to a similar attack.
Threat detection and mitigation is one of the core responsibilities of a SOC. With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, it has become arduous for security analysts to secure their network from threats. Hybrid work and BYOD policies are making it more difficult for SOCs to keep track of network activities. Attackers continue to improvise new tactics and techniques to compromise an organization’s network.
