“ THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY HAS BEEN A KEY TARGET FOR RANSOMWARE GANGS ”
DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS target them . As with other patient data sets , COVID- 19 records may include data points that bad actors can use for fraud , such as health insurance fraud with health insurance details , or identity theft with dates of birth and Social Security numbers . Both public and private health insurance providers can become targets for criminals and fraudsters . The U . S . is a top target for criminals due to its affluence , the large scale of its economy , and the use of English . Accordingly , Medicare and Medicaid coverage details are popular commodities in these underground criminal marketplaces .
“ THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY HAS BEEN A KEY TARGET FOR RANSOMWARE GANGS ”
PAUL PRUDHOMME HEAD OF THREAT INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY AT INTSIGHTS , A RAPID7 COMPANY
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Threats Fraudsters may be the primary consumers of such compromised PII , but statesponsored threat actors can also use it in support of intelligence operations and for investigative purposes . The report found that foreign intelligence services collect PII and ingest it into searchable databases against which they conduct targeted queries in support of human intelligence ( HUMINT ) operations or signals intelligence ( SIGINT ) collection .
The SIGINT components of foreign intelligence services and communities can monitor phone numbers and email addresses from PII data sets for more coverage of
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