Webroot

APRIL 21, 2021

Although cybercriminal activity throughout 2020 was as innovative as ever, some of the most noteworthy threat activity we saw came from the old familiar players, namely ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) and phishing. Here are some of the findings from the report. COVID-19 definitely affected phishing in very visible ways.

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Threat Reports Phishing Ransomware Backups 103

Webroot

MARCH 31, 2021

Are you taking the pledge this World Backup Day? Now in its tenth year, World Backup Day remains one of our favorite reminders of the risks of not backing up the data we hold dear. Numbers are great, and necessary for showing the scope of the problem, but I wanted to see how data loss—and backups—affect real people.

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Backups Data preservation Ransomware Encryption 62

Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. billion rubles.

Computers and Electronics 80

Computers and Electronics Backups Cybercrime Marketing 80

Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As the threat reports Webroot produces each year have shown — not to mention the increasing number of major hacks in the headlines — threats keep evolving, and their growth is often exponential. Once the criminals have domain credentials, they can disable security and/or tamper with backups. How IT will Prevail in 2021.

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Backups Ransomware Encryption Phishing 95

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2018

They may be running critical applications in one cloud and using a different vendor for backup and restore in another. According to our Global Data Threat Report , 45 percent of respondents will store sensitive data in SaaS environments this year, including cloud storage.

Encryption 91

Encryption Big data Backups Threat Reports 91

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

Bad actors have been exploiting VMs in recent years as a way of running under the radar, making it more difficult to detect their malware while it encrypts the data they intend to hold for ransom. Enterprises continue to adopt VMs to make device management, resource use and data backup easier and more efficient.

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Ransomware Backups Digital transformation Encryption 116

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

This file acts as downloader in the infection chain, using a series of hard-coded server addresses, It heavily rely on obfuscation and encryption to avoid the antimalware detection. Shade encrypts all the user files using an AES encryption scheme. Background of the infected machine, after encryption phase.

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Ransomware Encryption Malware Advertising 75