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Security News Bites for June 27, 2025

June 30, 2025 Giovanna D Simoes Leave a comment

Cost of Recent UK Retail Cyberattacks is $350 to $600 Million Britain’s Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) estimates the total cost of the cyberattacks that crippled major UK retail organizations recently could be in the region of £270-440 million ($362-$591 million). Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, and Harrods were all targets. That is a lot of money for […]

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MGM Hackers Conned Their Help Desk – Are You Prepared?

September 18, 2023 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

The help desk was operated by a third party. The hackers conned the help desk, it is reported, to reset all of the two factor methods that were set up to protect a super-admin account. They likely did this after they phished an employee for his/her userid and password. They used deceptive phone calls to […]

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