Ryan Chiavetta

BlackCloak | Protect Your Digital Life™

We are now past the halfway point of the year, and if certain trends continue, 2023 could be another record year for a number of different cyber crimes. Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis found cryptocurrency-based ransomware attacks are on a record-setting pace. If the current trajectory holds, victim payments could reach ... Read More

As we approach the summer months, it’s important to remember cybercriminals will not be on vacation. Cyber scams are conducted throughout the year, and malicious actors may try to take advantage of people who are on vacation, and thus, may let their guard down. It’s important to always keep your ... Read More

With each passing year, it seems data breaches become more costly to victims, and 2022 was no exception. Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report found, for instance, that the average cost of ransomware attacks doubled over the past two years to $26,000. Of those attacks, 95% of those affected experienced ... Read More

If you pay attention to data breaches in the news, you may notice that healthcare entities are attacked often, and the incidents often affect hundreds of thousands, to millions, of patients. The HIPAA Journal examined the amount of healthcare data breaches that took place between April 2022 and March 2023 ... Read More

Data breaches can affect a lot of people. Occasionally, news stories will emerge about data breaches where millions of people had their information compromised. However, it is highly unlikely that every single user or customer had their data stolen in an incident. Organizations only send data breach notifications to those ... Read More

When personal information is stolen in a data breach, each compromised data point poses a different risk to the victim. Stolen email addresses and phone numbers can lead to an increase in phishing attempts, while Social Security numbers could be used by cybercriminals to conduct instances of identity theft. Either ... Read More

Healthcare organizations continue to be a popular target for cybercriminals, as evidenced by reports looking back at cyberattacks in 2022. A study from Critical Insights found nearly 50 million people were affected by healthcare data breaches in 2022, and if you think that figure is large, it’s actually a slight ... Read More

If it feels as though more and more people are becoming data breach victims, there’s evidence to prove it isn’t just a feeling. In the Identity Theft Resource Center’s Annual Data Breach Report, the number of data breach victims rose to 422.1 million people in 2022, a 41.5% rise from ... Read More

You may not know it, but tech companies are constantly working behind the scenes to detect and patch security vulnerabilities that affect everything from your devices to the browsers you use. Apple is a prime example of how tech companies respond to these flaws that, if left unchecked, could lead ... Read More

Cybercriminals continue to refine their phishing campaigns as they try to convince unsuspecting targets to turn over sensitive personal information. As the world is getting wiser to their schemes, cybercriminals are evolving — they create phony emails and websites that look almost identical to the legitimate organizations they impersonate. And ... Read More