Who is affected
Organisations hosting public-facing web portals, recruitment systems, or third-party platforms that collect and store sensitive personal information.
How to mitigate it
- 1Audit all public-facing portals and forms to identify and patch security flaws or misconfigurations.
- 2Enforce multi-factor authentication and least-privilege access rules on every administrative account managing applicant or employee data.
- 3Implement strict data retention schedules to ensure sensitive applicant files are purged or encrypted when no longer actively needed.
- 4Deploy continuous monitoring to detect anomalous access attempts or suspicious bulk data downloads across internet-facing systems.
How Outsource IT solves this
Outsource IT delivers 24/7 managed threat detection, identity defence, and proactive monitoring to help Ontario organisations prevent extortion groups from compromising sensitive web environments.
Managed Cybersecurity & Threat ProtectionTags
Data breachExtortionShinyHuntersPortal security
Source advisory: the-hacker-news
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