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FBI: Credential Stuffing Leads to Millions in Fraudulent Transfers

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From 2017 to 2019, the FBI says credential stuffing attacks were the most common type of attack against the financial sector, accounting for 41% of total incidents. Although neither entity reported any fraud, one of the attacks resulted in an extended system outage that prevented the collection of nearly $2 million in revenue.

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New York: Cyberattack Is Twitter's Fault, Let's Increase Regulation

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And they traced the cybersecurity failures to a lack of leadership and a vacant Chief Information Security Officer role: "The problems started at the top: Twitter had not had a chief information security officer (“CISO”) since December 2019, seven months before the Twitter Hack. We've discovered a catastrophic bug in your version of RSTS/E.

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