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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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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Spinone

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Information Technology research and advisory company, Gartner, presented its top predictions for the cybersecurity industry for 2017 earlier this year. The entire cybersecurity strategy for any organization must be reviewed and updated regularly in order to keep up with new risks and technologies.

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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. Gone are the days when we can pretend that our technologies will work in the face of a military cyberattack.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware worms, in 2017, illustrated how quickly ransomware could spread through networks and cause global disruption. Sopra Steria - One of the Largest Reported Ransoms Europe's major IT services firm Sopra Steria was breached in October 2020 by the Ryuk gang, with extensive backups preventing major disruption.

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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. Much depends on security practices maintained by each provider, according to an MIT Technology Review story last year that named cloud ransomware attacks as a top security concern for 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Notable Ransomware Attacks CryptoLocker ushered in the modern ransomware age in 2013, and in 2017, the devastating WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware attacks raised the threat’s profile significantly. Ransomware-proof backups: You can limit the damage caused by ransomware by maintaining an effective backup and disaster recovery plan.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 2, 2019

Cryptocurrency retreat will make ransomware less profitable: The gold rush for bitcoin and similar currencies went hand-in-hand with a plague of ransomware: Bitcoin’s peak at close to $20,000 in value in 2017 coincided with a 400% increase in ransomware attacks.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

Observed since: October 2017 Ransomware note: readme.txt Ransomware extension: dihlxbl Kill Chain: Being Distributed via Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome (Korean users) Sample hash: 06ea8f2b8b70b665cbecab797125733f75014052d710515c5ca2d908f3852349. Using patented technology, Anti-Ransomware assesses changes in those data files.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2024

Just like in 2017, when thousands of customers defected from small package delivery company TNT Express (now owned by FedEx) to DHL in the aftermath of the $10 billion NotPetya cyberattack, it's likely most of them will not return to Change. Talk about tone deaf. markets, would side with the AHA.

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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. Venafi Research: 35 Percent of Websites Are Still Using Insecure SHA-1 Certificates and Putting Users at Risk. SHA-1 Deprecation. Anastasios Arampatzis.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

combinations Enables automated response to quickly and effectively contain threats based upon policy from moderate (move to guest network, assign to self-remediation VLAN, apply OS updates/patches, etc.) to stringent (quarantine assets, turn off switch port, block access, disable network card, etc.)

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Since then Portnox continued to add capabilities, launched the first cloud-native NAC in 2017, and now offers a NAC SaaS solution, Portnox Cloud. Founded in 2007, Por t nox began selling a software-based NAC solution to be used in local networks.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Google Tensor’s main processors are Arm-based and utilize TrustZone ™ technology. Since its launch in 2017, Google Play Protect has provided the ability to detect malicious applications even when the device is offline. Pixel is also part of the Android Vulnerability Rewards Program , which paid out $1.75

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. However, the technological side of cybersecurity is no longer the weakest link in a company’s proverbial chain. Technological Tactics. Technological tactics. Individuals.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

As first detailed by KrebsOnSecurity in July 2016 , Orcus is the brainchild of John “Armada” Rezvesz , a Toronto resident who until recently maintained and sold the RAT under the company name Orcus Technologies. 2017 analysis of the RAT. In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 15, 2018

The Cloud is one of the most rapidly growing computing technologies of modern times and global spending on cloud technologies is expected to reach $250 billion by 2017. Cloud backup services are very affordable and provide an easy way to recover all your data to an earlier point in time in the event of a data loss disaster.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 23, 2021

By tapping into the advanced capabilities of our IT scanning technology, we’re proud to share actionable data to increase awareness around the current state of cyber risk technology and help eliminate the impact of adverse events — especially as we approach the end of a pivotal year,” said Madhu Tadikonda, President of Corvus Insurance. “We

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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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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

Kacey Sensenich, chief technology officer at Rockingham County Schools (25 schools, 11,691 students in the 2019-2020 school year), ran up against an Emotet trojan infection in December 2017. 11 of 2017, Sensenich began observing signs of abnormal network behavior. Rockingham County, North Carolina.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

business cont plan (how long to restore backups? We do have backups? Also Read: Beyond the Backup: Defending Against Ransomware. Deleting backups , including shadow copies. Enlisting technologies like CASB , IDPs , SIEM , and EDR for advanced security systems. What do we do in the meantime?). Time till restoration.

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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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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These factors have combined to push many organizations toward adoption of technologies – like cloud applications, VPNs and home networks – with bugs and misconfigurations that are most likely to be exploited by ransomware groups.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

From a GUI enterprise manager to advanced logical replication, backup and recovery, and a migration toolkit, EDB is a go-to vendor for all Postgre database administrators. Started in 1987, the telecommunications provider has become a multinational technology whale. Read our in-depth review of Microsoft’s Always Encrypted.

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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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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Introduction In May 2017, a worldwide ransomware attack infamously known as WannaCry was set in motion. This ransomware made use of the EternalBlue , an exploit of Microsoft’s implementation of their SMB protocol, released by The Shadow Brokers hacker group in April 2017, to gain access to remote Windows machines in most cases.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD]. Today, c yber security incidents lead to significant damage, alarming organizations of all types and sizes in different geographic locations.

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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). Ransomware Examples WannaCry was one of the major headliners in 2017. Petya was a reason behind many attacks during 2016 and 2017. Backup is a copy of your data stored separately.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 12, 2022

Reeder, who previously served as Executive Chairman of Netrix’s Board of Directors, joins from Infrascale, a cloud-based data protection, backup and disaster recovery solution provider, where he has been CEO since 2019. Reeder as Chief Executive Officer of Netrix. Prior to Infrascale, Reeder served as President and CEO of the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A good example is the infamous WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017 that hit corporate networks running Microsoft Windows throughout the world as part of a larger global cyberattack. Incident response and a clean air-gapped backup copy of your data are critical cybersecurity tools these days. Put recovery strategies in place.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 29, 2021

During the decade that followed, we saw a slew of WAN and encryption technologies become available to help with the demand and scale for secure network traffic. MPLS, along with frame Relay, became extremely popular and IPsec-related encryption technologies became the norm. Cisco acquired Viptela, a leading SD-WAN provider in 2017.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs. Back to 2017 After obtaining the CloudWizard’s orchestrator and its modules, we were still missing one part of the infection chain: the framework installer. Since 2017, there have been no traces of Groundbait and BugDrop operations.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 20, 2018

They're computers -- often ancient computers running operating systems no longer supported by the manufacturers -- and they don't have any magical security technology that the rest of the industry isn't privy to. Multiple, unchangeable backups are essential. We can do better.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. Taking a look at the Equifax breach discovered in July of 2017, initial reports showed that Social Security Numbers, birth dates, addresses, and driver’s license numbers were accessed.

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Spinone

JANUARY 14, 2019

Digital technologies are continuously changing the way people work today. Google Team Drive is a technology intelligently adapted to dramatic changes, and corporate managers and team drive users can now effectively direct and secure terabytes of data. What is Google Team Drives? What are Google Team Drive Benefits for Organizations?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2022

That same day, Press Secretary Jen Psaki brought in Anne Neuberger, the Deputy National Security Advisor over Cyber and Emerging Technologies. was similarly discussed, for example by Symantec, in their report " Dragonfly: Western energy sector targeted by sophisticated attack group " in October 2017.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

A couple of days later and without response, I sought the support of Tefo Mohapi , a journalist in South Africa I worked with on the massive Master Deeds breach in 2017. He also wrote about the other betting operators implicated in the database backups and how there appeared to be a common thread across them. And they weren't happy.

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