{"id":46941,"date":"2024-12-06T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcon.xyz\/risk-to-watch\/alert-no-respite-from-cyber-frauds-its-entertainment-industry-now\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:26:13","slug":"alert-no-respite-from-cyber-frauds-its-entertainment-industry-now","status":"publish","type":"risk-to-watch","link":"https:\/\/arcon.xyz\/staging01\/risk-to-watch\/alert-no-respite-from-cyber-frauds-its-entertainment-industry-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert! No Respite from Cyber Frauds&#8230; It\u2019s Entertainment Industry now!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cyber criminals now can disrupt your movie hours!\u00a0 test\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An international subscription-based video streaming service provider has recently faced a nasty and unexpected breach that led to the online release of unreleased episodes of a blockbuster web series. One of the post-production partners was compromised, which is why their intellectual property was compromised. A malicious user disguised as a legitimate subscriber was allegedly involved in the unauthorized leak, which seriously threatened the platform\u2019s information assets and production schedules.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While BFSI, government, healthcare, and telecom industries are always vulnerable to threats, the entertainment industry is not spared today due to the lure of digital content. In the above incident, unauthorized access, lack of end-user monitoring, and inadequate password management are the culprits.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any post-production studio responsible for creating films, television shows, music videos, and other multimedia content is not spared today due to alluring content, especially among the youth. Any unauthorized access could compromise the time sensitivity of the unreleased shows\/ series\/ videos. At the same time, there could be a loss of data privacy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Risk Areas Derived from this Incident\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above incident raises questions about the victim organization\u2019s IT security initiatives.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Did the suspected user have privileged rights to access the streaming content?\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Wasn\u2019t there any Privileged Access Management deployed? Or any stringent access control mechanism?\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Wasn\u2019t the streaming data encrypted?\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To analyze a bit deeper, a reputed and robust Privileged Access Management (PAM) could have prevented the disaster, monetary loss and the subsequent reputational backlash.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Any unauthorized access or \u201cauthorized\u201d access with malicious intent could jeopardize the objectives of data security, privacy, and integrity. Unauthorized access could be catastrophic, especially in the entertainment industry, where the time sensitivity of the data is extremely important.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>At the same time, the absence of any role-based or policy-based access control mechanisms encourages random access to critical content and results in the misuse of sensitive data.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Lastly, unencrypted data can lead to data breaches, identity theft, privacy violations, and operational disruptions. Sometimes, organizations are forced to face legal consequences as well.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arconnet.com\/privileged-access-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ARCON | Privileged Access Management (PAM)<\/a> can address all the above requirements under one roof. Had there been a PAM solution in the organization, as mentioned above, there could have been MFA (Multi-factor Authentication) to prevent unauthorized access, RBAC (Role-based Access Control) &amp; PBAC (Policy-based Access Control) to ensure the right access to the right content to the right user and My Vault to securely store every sensitive data using advanced encryptions algorithms. Privileged users with elevated access rights can upload files encrypted and stored in a centralized\/ quarantined repository.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Bottom-Line\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, cybercriminals are the least bothered to pay any heed to organizations and their industries. Organizations responsible for releasing streaming content for entertainment purposes are also not spared. 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One of the post-production partners was compromised, which is why their intellectual property was compromised. A malicious user disguised as a legitimate subscriber was allegedly involved in the unauthorized leak, which seriously threatened the platform\u2019s information assets and production schedules.\r\n\r\nWhile BFSI, government, healthcare, and telecom industries are always vulnerable to threats, the entertainment industry is not spared today due to the lure of digital content. In the above incident, unauthorized access, lack of end-user monitoring, and inadequate password management are the culprits.\r\n\r\nAny post-production studio responsible for creating films, television shows, music videos, and other multimedia content is not spared today due to alluring content, especially among the youth. Any unauthorized access could compromise the time sensitivity of the unreleased shows\/ series\/ videos. At the same time, there could be a loss of data privacy."},{"id":"Risk Areas Derived from this Incident\u00a0","title":"Risk Areas Derived from this Incident\u00a0","content":"The above incident raises questions about the victim organization\u2019s IT security initiatives.\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n \t<li>Did the suspected user have privileged rights to access the streaming content?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n \t<li>Wasn\u2019t there any Privileged Access Management deployed? 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