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World Backup Day 2023: Five Essential Cyber Hygiene Tips

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

World Backup Day 2023: Five Essential Cyber Hygiene Tips madhav Thu, 03/30/2023 - 05:54 World Backup Day , celebrated each year on March 31st, is a day created to promote backing up data from your devices. First observed in 2011, the holiday stresses the importance of having extra copies of data in case of an attack or accident.

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QNAP data storage devices hit by a massive ransomware campaign

CyberSecurity Insiders

To all those who are using QNAP storage devices for backup or file sharing purposes, here’s an alert that needs your attention. It is learnt that the massive file encrypting malware campaign started on April 19th,2021 when victims took help of the technology forums to know more about the ransomware. BTC for each file.

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Multiple schools hit by Vice Society ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

According to the BBC, the data includes: Passport scans of both pupils and parents which date back to 2011. Ensure your RDP points are locked down with a good password and multi-factor authentication. Backup your data. Backups are the last line of defence against an attack that encrypts your data.

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Dridex malware, the banking trojan

CyberSecurity Insiders

Introduction: Dridex, also known as Cridex or Bugat, is a banking Trojan that has been active since 2011. The malware also uses basic string encryption to hide the malicious URL it connects to in order to retrieve a file. Regular backups: Regularly backup important data and keep backups in a secure location.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked.

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

used the password 225948. Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. Another domain registered to that phone number was stairwell[.]ru and admin@stairwell.ru

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. However, the technological side of cybersecurity is no longer the weakest link in a company’s proverbial chain.