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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Update and patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as updates and patches are released. 7 SP1, 8, 8.1) How to Use the CISA Catalog.

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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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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

We encourage system administrators to immediately set up monitoring for these machines, due to the unlikelihood that patching (even in a timely fashion) will be sufficient to protect them. Mail servers have the double misfortune of harboring key intelligence of interest to APT actors and having the biggest attack surface imaginable.

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