In the lead-up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025, the retail sector in the US is facing a significant increase in cyber-attacks targeting both online and brick-and-mortar businesses. Threat actors have and are leveraging sophisticated phishing campaigns, malicious websites masquerading as legitimate retailers, and ransomware attacks timed to disrupt critical sales periods. According to recent industry reports, cybercriminals are exploiting the surge in online shopping traffic by deploying
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US insurance giant Allianz Life announced on July 26 that hackers had stolen the personal information of many of its customers, financial professionals, and select Allianz Life employees in the United States. The insurance giant's filing with Maine's attorney general did not immediately provide the number of customers affected. According to the filing, the data breach, which the company described as a hack, occurred on July 16 and was discovered on July 17.
TechCrunch first reported the data
Activity Summary - Week Ending 17 July 2020:
- Red Sky Alliance identified 57,886 connections from new unique IP addresses
- Analysts identified 3,052 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
- Buffalo Vastitude is Compromised
- ShinyHunters is on the Top 5 Threat Actor List
- Thanos Ransomware
- OT Ransomware Ekans
- Outlaw Botnet
- Oil Prices remain around the low $40 a barrel
- Oil Merchant Tanker hiding in Iran waters
- UK cuts ties with Huawei, China not Happy
- Libya’s eastern government asking Egypt
