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What makes a ransomware attack eight times as costly? Compromised backups

Graham Cluley

New research has found that ransomware remediation costs can explode when backups have been compromised by malicious hackers - with overall recovery costs eight times higher than for those whose backups are not impacted. Read more in my article on th Exponential-e blog.

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Average enterprise storage/backup device has 14 vulnerabilities, three high or critical risks

CSO Magazine

The average enterprise storage and backup device has 14 vulnerabilities, three of which are high or critical risk that could present a significant compromise if exploited. The findings are based on assessments of 245 environments with 8,589 storage and backup devices from leading providers including Dell, NetApp, Veritas, and Hitachi Vantara.

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Cybercrime group FIN7 targets Veeam backup servers

CSO Magazine

Researchers warn that a financially motivated cybercrime group known as FIN7 is compromising Veeam Backup & Replication servers and deploying malware on them. To read this article in full, please click here

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Ransomware recovery: 8 steps to successfully restore from backup

CSO Magazine

Part of the reason is the lack of backups—specifically, the lack of usable backups. To read this article in full, please click here According to a ransomware survey report released in June by Keeper Security, 49% of companies hit by ransomware paid the ransom—and another 22% declined to say whether they paid or not.

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Redstor extends protection of Kubernetes in AWS, unifies container backups

CSO Magazine

The firm has added support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), a managed container service for handling applications in the cloud or on-premises, giving partners the ability to scale customer backups and removing the need to rely on disparate, ununified solutions. Extension unifies backups for container-based applications.

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Apple finally adds encryption to iCloud backups

CSO Magazine

Apple today introduced several new security features focused on fending off threats to user data in the cloud, including end-to-end encryption for backups for iCloud users. To read this article in full, please click here

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Preparing for Ransomware: Are Backups Enough?

eSecurity Planet

In a year where ransomware has raised the alert levels everywhere, the go-to answer from many is redundancy through offline, remote backups – but are they enough? Backups are a critical component of any enterprise cybersecurity posture, but they are not an airtight strategy. Why Are Backups Critical? The Argument for Backups.

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