Standing Intelligence Requirements

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Details

Capital Economics, a London-based economic research company, suffered a data breach. On July 4, 2022, a threat actor "pompompurin" from the underground forum BreachForums posted a data package relating to this breach, stating that the data is from December 2020 and includes 263,000 customer records. The data package was also shared on the underground forum Forum Team (on November 12, 2021, by the threat actor "world_of_fantom"), on Raid Forums (on January 4, 2021, by the threat actor "dbs"), and in a Telegram channel "Breached Data | Group" (on July 12, 2021). The compromised data included headers such as names, email addresses, employer names, phone numbers, and physical addresses. From the package shared on BreachForums, ZeroFox extracted 263,686 email addresses. Of this total, an assessed 4,735 records contained hashed passwords.

Recommendations

• If not already enabled, turn on the compromised credentials rule for all relevant entities and ensure relevant emails are entered for those entities, or reach out to [email protected] for assistance
• If one of your entities receives an alert, ZeroFox recommends immediate password changes for the affected account
• Enable 2-factor authentication for all of your organizational accounts to help mitigate phishing and credential stuffing attacks