Krebs on Security

JANUARY 2, 2019

But according to a status update shared by Data Resolution with affected customers on Dec. 29, 2018, the attackers broke in through a compromised login account on Christmas Eve and quickly began infecting servers with the Ryuk ransomware strain. Part of an update on the outage shared with Data Resolution customers via Dropbox on Dec.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

If confirmed this means that Reddit was the victim of a data breach. This was breach on Reddit’s part or someone managed to bruteforce my unique credentials, including strong password. In August 2018, Reddit warned users of a security breach, an attacker broke into the systems of the platform and accessed user data.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling “catastrophic destruction” at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company’s primary and backup data in the United States. Every file server is lost, every backup server is lost. “Every VM [virtual machine] is lost.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This type of attack is relatively common (in the second quarter of 2018 alone, defacements made up 14 percent of all malware attacks) and very easy to spot. In fact, according to research by GeoEdge, malvertising drained $1 billion from the online advertising ecosystem in 2018, and 2019 totals are expected to be 20-30 percent higher.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

On Christmas Eve 2018, cloud data hosting firm Dataresolution.net was hit with the Ryuk strain of ransomware. 2, 2019, this blog reported that the company — which had chosen not to pay the ransom and instead restore everything from backups — was still struggling to bring its systems back online.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

The surveillance campaign targeted heads of state, activists and journalists, including the family of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi family before and after he was killed in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by Saudi operatives. The researchers also shared data related to the Pegasus’s infrastructure, including more than 700 Pegasus-related domains.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As organizations continue to gather more data than ever before, the surface area of risk, and subsequently the blast radius, will exponentially increase when an incident materializes. . Learn how to solve the ransomware challenge with Delphix and drive continuous data protection and automated application recovery. .

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Data Breach Statistics Experiencing a data breach leads companies to many undesirable consequences—financial and reputational damages, disruption of business continuity, compliance violations, and others. The average cost of a data breach is $3.86

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The average cost of a data breach can exceed $100,000 for SMBs , and that doesn’t include the high price tag associated with repairing a business’s reputation and rebuilding customer trust. Backdoor attacks increased by 173% between 2017 and 2018. Keep an off-site backup of the site that’s confirmed to be free of back doors.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The company said it is in the final stages of bringing all of its systems back online from backups. In an email sent to customers today, Billtrust said it was consulting with law enforcement officials and with an outside security firm to determine the extent of the breach. With more than 550 employees, Lawrence Township, N.J.-based

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In March 2018, security experts at InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers, or Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPFs), for 120 million Brazilian nationals. It is not clear how long data remained exposed online or who accessed them. ” reads the report published by InfoArmor.

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Spinone

AUGUST 13, 2019

Google Drive Can Become a “Ricocheted Victim” of Ransomware T hrough the Backup & Sync Tool Backup & Sync is a free synchronization tool from Google. Backup & Sync will interpret encryption as regular file editing and get them automatically synced with Google Drive. Educate yourself and your employees.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 14, 2018

I don't know how many data breaches I'm sitting on that I'm yet to process. I was recently sent a data breach alleged to have come from theflyonthewall.com and upon verifying it, I believe it's legitimate. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 12, 2018. sql which allegedly came from opencsgo.com.

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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. While 2018 showed a slight decline, you can see that the number of records that were exposed increased drastically, likely indicating cybercriminals are becoming more brazen in their attacks.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Before 2016/17, cyber insurance was an emerging market, often viewed as an optional add on for organisations with heightened IT security risks, with less legal ramifications for data breaches (i.e. GDPR requirements) and far less knowledge or awareness of cyber threats.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2018

. “By analyzing the payments, and comparing this with ransom notes at the time, we can estimate the number of individual victims who have chosen to pay at least some of the ransom amount stands at 233 as of July 19th 2018. “ SamSam ransomware payments. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

Another data leak made the headlines, a huge trove of data belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities (ODS) was left unsecured on a server for at least a week. It is not clear how long data were left exposed online, according to the Shodan search engine, the server had been publicly open since at least November 30, 2018.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

IBM’s “ 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report ” details the costs that come from a data breach as a result of various cybersecurity risks. million Healthcare organizations for the 9th year in a row had the highest costs associated with data breaches – $6.45 Yes, they are. percent in 2019.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found that K–12 cyberattacks more than tripled over the pandemic, from 400 reported incidents in 2018 to over 1,300 in 2021. According to GAO , thousands of K–12 students had their personal information compromised in data breaches between 2016 and 2020.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

implement offline storage and tape-based backup. Network & Information Systems (NIS) Regulations 2018 were introduced into UK law three years ago and has parallels with the DPAGDPR law which was introduced at the same time. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing. review Active Directory password policy.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

New research indicates hospitals and other care facilities that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among certain patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

By gaining a deeper understanding of application security, companies can take the necessary steps and actions to safeguard their valuable assets and reduce the risk of devastating data breaches. How Does Application Security Work? Application security works through a combination of security controls and best practices.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

With the launch of Office 365 backup and recovery solutions with multiple cloud storage options based on the world’s most trusted cloud storage providers such as AWS and GCP, Spinbackup furthers its mission to empowering enterprise and SMB organizations with intelligent data loss and leak protection in the cloud.

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Spinone

MAY 15, 2018

General Data Protection Regulation was officially adopted by the European Parliament in April 2016 to specify how customer data should be used and protected. Following a two-year post adoption period it will become enforceable in May 2018. Breach Notification. It must be as easy to withdraw consent as it is to give it.

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Spinone

JANUARY 30, 2019

Let’s take a look at the topic – Office 365 Backup Why Important? In considering this topic we will look at why native mechanisms for data protection are simply not enough in Office 365 and the potential cost of ineffective data protection.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Back up your data. Access to a working backup gives you tremendous leverage as the victim of a ransomware attack. In fact, Ponemon Institute reported that 73% of small businesses that suffered a ransomware attack in 2018 did not pay the ransom because. they had a full backup. The malware does the rest.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

These infections make sites vulnerable to takeovers, defacement and data breaches from bad actors looking to tarnish site reputations and turn a profit – and the costs can be devastating for businesses. In fact, the average data breach now costs businesses $1.9 Prepare for disaster recovery with Website Backup.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

A 2018 CHIME-KLAS report found the average number of connected medical devices within the health care environment totaled about 10,000. In health care, ransomware and data breaches frequently receive the most media attention. Additionally, the impact of modern day attacks is about much more than data loss and material impact.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For example, it is unclear how much data would have been unrecoverable if a decryption key had not become available as the HSE’s backup infrastructure was only periodically backed up to offline tape. During my 2018 talk, I tried to emphasize the primary importance of being able to respond quickly to intrusions.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. In IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2019 cited the following: Lost business is the biggest contributor to data breach costs The average cost of lost business in 2019 was $1.42

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Spinone

AUGUST 12, 2020

At the beginning of 2018, security expert Kevin Mitnick brought to light the very dangerous and concerning ransomware that was shown to be able to encrypt cloud SaaS email services found in the likes of Office 365. Malicious software exposes your environment to data breach concerns. A great example of ransomware 2.0

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Cisco Security

JULY 11, 2022

From extortion to data breaches, ransomware is always evolving, and is becoming very lucrative with Ransomware-as-a-service kit making it easier to target organizations. Below you can review their findings from a study done between 2018 – 2022: Map: Comparitech Get the data Created with Datawrapper. Key findings .

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Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2019

There is another new EU regulation that is a bit lesser known since it directly pertains to customers financial data and their ability to have other payment services. The new PSD2 directive, or the Second Payment Services Directive as it is known, went into effect in 2018. This can certainly include the location of data backups.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The new set of regulations is called the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. The regulation was approved by the European Union parliament in April 2016 and set to go into enforcement on May 25, 2018. What aspects of data privacy are contained in the GDPR regulations? Are you choosing the best G Suite Backup Solution ?

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Spinone

JULY 3, 2020

and you interact with their data in any way – you fall under the GDPR. You can remember the massive story with Facebook’s misuse of customer information in 2018; other big players like British Airways and Marriott International have also suffered from €200 million and €99 million GDPR fines , respectively.

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Spinone

AUGUST 18, 2019

Often G Suite admins don’t bother to migrate data from Google accounts of leaving employees and delete the accounts. In 2018 Coca-Cola suffered from a massive data breach from its former employee that affected 8000 workers. If you want to know more about them, check out this G Suite data migration guide.

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