Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

These revelations blow apart any claims by NSO that such attacks are rare and down to rogue use of their technology. While the company claims its spyware is only used for legitimate criminal and terror investigations, it’s clear its technology facilitates systemic abuse. Exposing Pegasus infrastructure.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The problem is that the vulnerability also affects ColdFusion 2016 and ColdFusion 11 installations, which have reached end-of-life (EOL) and are no longer supported with security patches. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Don’t get attacked twice.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 2, 2018

San Francisco, CA, December 03, 2018 – Spinbackup, a leading global cloud backup and cloud cybersecurity solutions provider for SaaS applications, announced today the general availability of Office 365 Backup & Recovery to a secure cloud storage on AWS and GCP with multiple storage locations.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIST contest began in 2016, with the goal of improving general encryption and digital signatures. Quantum technology is accelerating—and with it, the quantum threat. Technological acceleration can happen in the blink of an eye.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Implement and enforce backup and restoration policies and procedures. Doing backups right is not as easy as some may think. Consider disabling or limiting New Technology Local Area Network Manager (NTLM) and WDigest Authentication. Implement Credential Guard for Windows 10 and Server 2016. Scan backups.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Transition to the public cloud and SaaS remains the number one technology priority, as enterprise spending on cloud technologies continues to climb. Backups can be configured to 1x or 3x times daily. True Snapshot backup with granular or snapshot recovery (time machine). This trend is likely to accelerate in coming years.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

TrickBot debuted in 2016 after succeeding Dyreza (alias "Dyre"), another banking Trojan also operated by cybercriminals based in Moscow, Russia. This should include restoring from backups, client outreach, and reporting to law enforcement among others. Backup your files. Educate your staff. Get an EDR solution.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Implement and enforce backup and restoration policies and procedures. Doing backups right is not as easy as some may think. Consider disabling or limiting New Technology Local Area Network Manager (NTLM) and WDigest Authentication. Implement Credential Guard for Windows 10 and Server 2016.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

As more and more companies move to cloud services to increase productivity and reduce costs, we are seeing a shift in how businesses are working with digital technologies and their needs and requirements are also changing to fit these new ways of working. Certain industries have a higher adoption level of cloud services.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

The requirements, which aim to determine the functionality required by the client and the properties of the software in terms of performance, security, case of use, portability and maintenance, also take into account the technological and regulatory context and should be recorded in a document. About the author: Salvatore Lombardo.

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Elie

AUGUST 31, 2017

has developed a new methodology and a set of technologies to trace bitcoin ransom payments at scale. I couldn’t find recent data on this, so in July I ran a survey to ask US internet users about their backup habits. Even within the minority who do backup, the results are still grim. Chainanalysis. , real Locky ransom payment.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

Mamba was first spotted on September 2016 when experts at Morphus Labs discovered the infection of machines belonging to an energy company in Brazil with subsidiaries in the United States and India. The first sample of Mamba Ransomware discovered in the wild was using the full disk encryption tool DiskCryptor to strongly encrypt the data.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

According to a 2016 survey conducted by Ponemon Institute, 22% of businesses blamed cyberattacks on insiders. The flexibility and scalability that the cloud offers makes this technology more compelling to small and mid-size businesses. The Internet of Things (IoT) is undeniably the future of technology.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

Despite all the emphasis around the shift from SHA-1 to SHA-2, 35% of websites were still utilizing SHA-1 certificates as of November 2016, according to research from Venafi in 2017. It is especially urgent to replace SHA-1 wherever it is used for digital signatures. Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms Announced.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

QNAPCrypt exploits a vulnerability in QNAP NAS running HBS 3 (Hybrid Backup Sync) to allow remote attackers to log in to a device. Mirai, a botnet responsible for the “ takedown of the Internet ” in 2016, takes advantage of this by hijacking IoT hardware to launch DDoS attacks. How it works. How it works.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In March 2016, for example, cybercriminals sent phishing emails from info@fincert.net. The backup channel for sharing information is email. Group-IB first detected the group’s activity in 2016. All messages sent via email contain FinCERT’s electronic signature.”. About Silence.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With vulnerabilities rooted in unsuspecting users, the task of preventing these attacks means both staff training and a robust email and network security system that includes a strong backup program so you have a recent copy of your data that you can roll back to. Offline Backups. Screenshot example. Adaptive Monitoring and Tagging.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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. Further reading: Best Backup Products for Ransomware and Best Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services . BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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Google Security

AUGUST 12, 2024

Posted by Royal Hansen, VP, Privacy, Safety and Security Engineering, Google, and Phil Venables, VP, TI Security & CISO, Google Cloud The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) just released three finalized standards for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) covering public key encapsulation and two forms of digital signatures.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

Before leakware came doxware, which was popular in 2016 and 2017. Many companies in various industries have made digital transformations, as new and emerging technologies offer plenty of benefits. It's slightly different from a standard ransomware attack—encrypting a user's files is a secondary concern. Adopt cloud services.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 2, 2025

UK Government's Encryption Demands Lead to Apple's Data Protection Withdrawal The UK government has mandated that Apple provide access to encrypted iCloud backups under the Investigatory Powers Act of 2016. This shift has raised concerns among experts about the comprehensive governance of AI technologies.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

For instance, when hackers stole the data of 25 million Uber riders and drivers in 2016, the company didn’t disclose the breach (as is required by law ). That may mean installing a stronger web application firewall, a better backup solution for website and business files, and an automated malware scanner.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

Some of these APTs have long been forgotten in the past – such as Prikormka ( Operation Groundbait ), discovered by ESET in 2016. From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs. Operation Groundbait was first described by ESET in 2016, with the first implants observed in 2008.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Cyber security in banking refers to technologies, practices, and processes designed to protect banks’ digital systems, data, and networks from cybersecurity threats. 5 Effective Cyber Security Solutions for Banks To combat these threats, banks must implement a combination of technological solutions and best practices.

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Spinone

APRIL 30, 2018

Spinbackup, a cloud cybersecurity and cloud-to-cloud backup solutions provider for G Suite, and a vendor in the emerging API-based CASB (cloud access security broker) space, today announced its integration with Google Cloud Platform to give customers more options to store, protect, and manage their cloud data.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In 2016, $91 million was spent on IoT endpoint security solutions. With five decades of experience working with distributed technology solutions, Entrust is a market leader in certificate issuance, identity management , and digital security systems trusted globally by governments, banks, and enterprises. Entrust Features.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Ransomware was proliferated in 2016 and 2017 and then seemed to be on the decline. Additionally, lucrative targets have included healthcare providers whose entire daily operations and business model revolves around technology-provided healthcare (patient records, charting, billing, etc). Notable Ransomware Attacks in 2019 1.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 18, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the first collection of encryption tools designed to withstand the assault of a future quantum computer, which might compromise the security employed to preserve privacy in the digital systems we rely on.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Over the last decade, K–12 schools have made great strides in employing technologies that facilitate learning—especially since the onset of pandemic-induced distance education. A study from the Kapor Center estimated that high turnover has cost the technology sector more than $16 billion annually.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

For instance, back in 2016, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned following an extensive email leak from WikiLeaks. We also used best practices from the Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies (SANS), the National Cybersecurity Centers and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Figure 2: IntelBroker’s BreachForums profile IntelBroker has continued targeting prominent organizations and made international headlines in October 2024 by posting a breach that referenced technology company Cisco. Stopping Data Leaks: Implement data loss protection (DLP) technologies to monitor, detect, and block unauthorized data movement.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. Today, c yber security incidents lead to significant damage, alarming organizations of all types and sizes in different geographic locations.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

It serves as a warning to regularly backup company data and train every employee on how to identify phishing and social engineering attacks. The banker made the transfer, and the crime went down in history as one of the most expensive crimes using deep fake technology. The email directs victims to download antivirus software.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The locker ransomware was more popular years ago, before the mass adoption of cloud technologies and services (like G Suite and Office 365). Petya was a reason behind many attacks during 2016 and 2017. Follow the basic rules + use a backup to recover your data in the case of an attack + use ransomware prevention tools.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2021

From the DYN DNS attack of 2016 to more recent attacks, such as the ransomware attack against IT service provider Cognizant , every day, the news is teeming with new events that should give any business owner pause. If you only take snapshots or backups of your data every twelve hours, then your RPO can only reflect that last backup.

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Spinone

AUGUST 10, 2018

As technology changes so quickly, it is possible to sink a vast amount of money into IT equipment, software, and services. For example explaining that over 4 million data records are stolen each day , or ransomware cost businesses $1 billion in 2016 , really brings the point home to cash-strapped and risk-averse managers.

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Spinone

JANUARY 12, 2019

Today’s businesses are more technology-centric than ever before. Most companies utilize technology-driven processes and services for day-to-day operations and business-critical systems. Especially when it comes to business communication, everyone is using technology to communicate.

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