Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We’ve seen similar vulnerabilities exploited before in breaches like the 2017 Equifax data breach. So do yourself a favor and backup before installing any patches. . “Cloud services like Steam, Apple iCloud, and apps like Minecraft have already been found to be vulnerable,” Lunasec wrote.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 2, 2019

In 2017, cloud hosting provider Cloudnine was hit by a ransomware attack , leading to an outage that lasted for several days. At the same time, cloud providers represent an especially attractive target for ransomware attacks because they store vast amounts of data for other companies.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In early 2017, Babam confided to another Verified user via private message that he is from Lithuania. com (2017). Gmail’s password recovery function says the backup email address for devrian27@gmail.com is bo3 *@gmail.com. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” ” in the United Kingdom.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The attackers are targeting Edgewater Networks’ devices by exploiting the CVE-2017-6079 vulnerability with a relatively unique mount file system command. ” reads the analysis published by Qihoo 360. se) to analyze the connections from the infected devices.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The cyberattack on VGTRK disrupted online broadcasts, internal services, and communications, reportedly wiping servers and backups. In 2017, Lithuania banned one of its channels, RTR Planeta. Early on Monday, the cyber attack took offline the website of VGTR along with its Rossiya-24 rolling 24-hours news channel.

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Penetration Testing

MARCH 19, 2025

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities The post CISA Warns of Three Actively Exploited Security Vulnerabilities in IoT, Backup, and Enterprise Systems appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Tape vendors have been promoting themselves as a solution to the ransomware problem because of their ability to provide air-gapped data backup, but trying to recover terabytes of data from a tape drive can be a little like, well, running into red tape. Q: Can you air gap a disk backup system? Tape vs. Disk: The Ransomware Issues.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Transportation Command in 2017, after learning that their computerized logistical systems were mostly unclassified and on the internet. And militaries need to have well-developed backup plans, for when systems are subverted. ” That was Bruce’s response at a conference hosted by U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

When the MFA option is verified, the system produces a one-time backup code and suggests you save that in a safe place in case your chosen MFA option is unavailable the next time you try to use a service that requires ID.me. I went with and would encourage others to use the strongest MFA option — a physical Security Key.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In another news related to cyber attack, France Cyber Security authorities have detected that the United States SolarWinds cyber attack could have been launched on its infrastructure in 2017 that remained undetected till 2020 or until security firm FireEye revealed it to the world.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2019

As first disclosed by KrebsOnSecurity last summer , Google maintains it has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes. a one-time token, key fob or mobile device).

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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 . CVE-2017-0144 : Similar to CVE-2017-0145.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. According to Constella Intelligence , a data breach and threat actor research platform, a user named Semen7907 registered in 2017 on the Russian-language programming forum pawno[.]ru Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

” Experts recommend to have secure working backup procedures, in case of attack, victims could simply recover data from a backup. 2017- NotPetya leveraged the EternalBlue exploit to spread to vulnerable systems. 2017 – anti-Israel & pro-Palestinian data wiper dubbed IsraBye that is spread as a ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

During their active period (2017 - 2021), more than 600 victims worldwide were extorted, some of them up to double-digit millions. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Test them regularly to make sure you can restore essential business functions swiftly.

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Spinone

JANUARY 13, 2018

Looking back at 2017 Spinbackup has made it a priority to offer state-of-the-art solutions to the problems above. As the security threat landscape evolves, enterprise organizations continuously invest into data protection solutions aimed at preventing massive data breaches, Ransomware, phishing scams and other sophisticated cyber attacks.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

2017 was another year of continuous progress and achievement for Spinbackup. Google Team Drives Backup Spinbackup was the world’s first vendor to introduce backup and recovery features for Google Team Drives.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2018

With the technologies in cloud computing moving so fast, and adoption rates increasing rapidly, we can expect to see some exciting developments in 2017. Let’s have a look at what’s in store for 2017: 1.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Sample zero trust navigation dashboard from Cloudflare Implement the 3-2-1 Backup Rule When applying the 3-2-1 backup rule, make sure you have three copies of your data: one primary and two backups. Keep these copies on two separate types of media: hard disks, cloud storage , and tape backups.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 20, 2018

Multiple, unchangeable backups are essential. In 2017, the Department of Homeland Security declared elections to be critical infrastructure , allowing the department to focus on securing them. We also need to better secure the voter registration websites, with better design and better internet security. We can do better.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 7, 2021

As recently as 2017, a tiny amount of GMail users made use of its two-step options. Make yourself some backup codes, print them off, put them somewhere safe in case you lose master password access. If you use a Google account, it may soon be mandatory to sign up to Google’s two-step verification program.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Let me give you an example from smack bang in the middle of GDPR territory: Deezer, the French streaming media service that went into HIBP early January last year: New breach: Deezer had 229M unique email addresses breached from a 2019 backup and shared online in late 2022. Data included names, IPs, DoBs, genders and customer location.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Who can forget WannaCry in 2017, for example, the strain that attacked unpatched Windows systems that remained vulnerable against EternalBlue ? Then there's Magniber ransomware, a strain distributed by the Magnitude exploit kit (EK) in late 2017. Backup your files. Educate your staff. Get an EDR solution.

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Elie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The findings presented in this post were originally presented at Blackhat USA 2017 in a talk entitled “Tracking desktop ransomware payments end-to-end.” Even Locky, the arch-dominant ransomware author in 2016, barely lasted a year before being subsumed by Cerber and its affiliate model in 2017. final post. You can check out the slides.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 19, 2017

This week, I started looking into a large database backup file which turned out to contain the personal data of a significant portion of the South African population. On March 14 this year, someone sent me a 27GB file called "masterdeeds.sql" which was a MySQL database backup file. This post explains everything I know.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

A SQL Server database backup for a ManageEngines ADSelfService Plus product had been recovered and, while the team had walked through the database recovery, SQL Server database encryption was in use. We cross our fingers and look in our target database backup and we find ESKP. So what is this key: just a hardcoded value?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2020

Experts recommended to have secure working backup procedures, in case of attack, victims could simply recover data from a backup. 2017- NotPetya leveraged the EternalBlue exploit to spread to vulnerable systems. 2017 – anti-Israel & pro-Palestinian data wiper dubbed IsraBye that is spread as a ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The history of nonconsensual intimate image (NCII) abuse—as the use of explicit deepfakes without consent is often called—started near the end of 2017. It may continue to exist in caches, backups, and snapshots. And actions or statements done by your images (real or not) may be linked to your persona.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As already reported in the Ransomware attack information via RDP access violation , drafted in 2017 and re-proposed in 2019, WE STRONGLY ADVISE EVERYONE AGAINST making accesses available via RDP because it is, even today, a potential access gatway to PCs/Servers for ” bad actors.” Black The LockBit 3.0

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Let me share a broad overview of my key points (most of which you'll have seen me comment on before), then I'd love your comments: Data breach vectors: There's malicious hacking which people most frequently think of, but there's also the growing prevalence of exposed DBs and backups.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Information Technology research and advisory company, Gartner, presented its top predictions for the cybersecurity industry for 2017 earlier this year. Now is the time to ensure a robust disaster recovery and backup plan for any individual or business using the cloud.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

Maintain known-good offline backups for faster recovery upon a disruptive attack, and conduct hashing and integrity checks on firmware and controller configuration files to ensure validity of those backups. . “INCONTROLLER represents an exceptionally rare and dangerous cyber attack capability.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Daniel’s Hosting became the largest Dark Web hosting provider earlier 2017 when Anonymous members breached and took down Freedom Hosting II. Winzen explained that hackers breached into Daniel’s Hosting database and deleted all data.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. Unfortunately, contemporary events seem to confirm this.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2022

The NCSC is investigating recent cyber attacks against entities in Ukraine making parallelism with other attacks preciously attributed to Moscow, such as NotPetya (2017) and cyber attacks against Georgia. . check that backups and restore mechanisms are working;? improve access controls and enabling multi-factor authentication;?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2021

The targeting of backups to prevent recovery following ransomware deployment. This week, CrowdStrike revealed to have recently observed a malicious activity associated with Magniber ransomware , a threat that has been active since 2017. The degradation of ESXi servers used for virtualization in victim environments.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

River City Media (RCM) is a US-based email marketing company that made headlines in March 2017 after exposing 1.4 billion individual records online due to an improperly configured backup. Who is River City Media, and what information was exposed in the breach?

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