Business email compromise (BEC) attacks doubled in the past year, accounting for nearly 60% of social engineering incidents, according to Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. The report, based on analysis of over 16,000 security incidents and 5,199 breaches, also found that 74% of breaches involved the human element. Ransomware played a role in 24% of breaches, with the median cost of incidents doubling from last year. Most attacks were financially motivated.
Kettering Health hit by cybersecurity attack
Kettering Health, a Dayton-based hospital group, underwent a system-wide outage due to a cyberattack, affecting its patient care systems. This potentially led to unauthorized access