Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

However, the company was able to restore its network from backups and no client workstations were affected during the intrusions. In fact, in this case, the attackers were able to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in the company’s FortiGate firewall.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

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. The server also included email backups from 1999 to 2016, the largest and most recent reaching 16GB in size. ” reads the press release.

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Cisco Security

JULY 11, 2022

Below you can review their findings from a study done between 2018 – 2022: Map: Comparitech Get the data Created with Datawrapper. Downtime varied from minimal disruption (thanks to frequent data backups) to months upon months of recovery time . Key findings . In 2021: . In 2021: . Hackers demanded up to $52.3 billion . ?

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 5, 2022

Protect devices with a firewall. Consider the chaos generated back in 2018 when an alert in Hawaii regarding an incoming missile was sent in error. The big question is what do authorities have in place as a backup if their emergency notifications go horribly wrong? Sadly, this kind of thing isn’t remotely new.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2021

According to Talos, the threat actor has been active at least since late 2018, experts observed intermittent activity towards the end of 2019 and through early 2020. The backdoor allows access to infected systems, even when behind a firewall. Australia, Italy, Spain, and Norway.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Barracuda SecureEdge SASE product builds off the well established Barracuda security products (firewalls, gateways, email security, and more) that already protect so many global companies. Barracuda once traded publicly on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CUDA, but as of 2018 has been taken private by Thoma Bravo.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Backdoor attacks increased by 173% between 2017 and 2018. And in the second quarter of 2018, SiteLock research determined that 43% of all infected websites contained at least one backdoor file. Keep an off-site backup of the site that’s confirmed to be free of back doors.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Already a leading SD-WAN pick, the HPE subsidiary boosted its market position with acquisitions of security vendor Cape Networks in 2018 and WAN specialist Silver Peak Systems in 2020. EdgeConnect Enterprise critically comes with firewall , segmentation , and application control capabilities. Features: Cato Edge SD-WAN and SASE.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. Attacks in 2018 Victim Organization January City of Farmington, New Mexico February Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) March City of Atlanta, Georgia July LabCorp, U.S. Check Point.

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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. Ransomware predictions.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly at risk of cyber-attacks, and often serve as a launch pad for larger threat campaigns, according to Cisco’s 2018 SMB Cybersecurity Report. Businesses must also ensure they have secure backups of their critical data. Lack of Cybersecurity Knowledge. SQL Injection.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

On January 17, 2018, the hacker shared exactly how many buyers he had at the time: 18. The business was going so well for Fxmsp that he hired a user with a nickname Lampeduza (aka Antony Moricone, BigPetya, Fivelife, Nikolay, tor.ter, andropov, and Gromyko) as his sales manager in early 2018. Proxy seller.

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SiteLock

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

million in 2018 to 15.4 Website Backup: Website backups help customers encrypt a snapshot of their website’s important files, folders, and databases. According to the International Data Corporation, by 2025 nearly 56 billion devices will be connected to the internet throughout the world. million in 2023.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

Announced in 2018 by the Wi-Fi Alliance, WPA3 simplifies the process of configuring devices with little to no display interface — such as IoT devices— by introducing Wi-Fi Easy Connect. Use a firewall on your router and any devices connected to your network to prevent unauthorized access to your network and data.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

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. Even as recently as 2018, Marriott International reported that an attack from 2014 left over 500 million users’ information exposed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2022

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2018, there were more than 200 million ransomware attacks. Recovery from Backup Native OneDrive ransomware protection and recovery tools are not convenient if you need to restore many files. Antivirus software or firewalls don’t always protect your data from ransomware. Identification of the damaged (encrypted) files.

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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. This is quite a feat as it was only first discovered in mid-august 2018. Backups aren’t working. Restoring from backup is certainly preferable to paying the bad guys for the damage they have inflicted.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Website Backups. When I started offering maintenance plans in earnest, I spent a lot of time logging in and out of my clients’ hosting accounts and WordPress websites in order to run backups and software updates manually. As I wrote above, backups and software updates should be the bare minimum. WordPress Core Software Updates.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption can also be found incorporated into a variety of network security and cloud security solutions, such as cloud access security brokers (CASB), next-generation firewalls (NGFW), password managers , virtual private networks (VPN), and web application firewalls (WAF). However, key rotation also adds complexity.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Prevent Rely solely on offline backups Disallow unnecessary file sharing. Recent UEFI attacks include a 2015 attack on a Ukrainian power grid and a 2018 attack where threat actors used a UEFI rootkit to drop additional malware in an extended episode. Old way New way. Detect Focus on encryption Assume exfiltration. Gateway Compromise.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Controls can be anything from good password hygiene to web application firewalls and internal network segmentation, a layered approach that reduces risk at each step. Web application firewalls (WAF) serve as a barrier to protect applications from various security threats. The potential cost is too great not to act.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

A web application firewall (WAF). Additionally, you might have to rebuild some or all of your website from scratch if you don’t have a clean, recent backup to restore your site. In Q1 2018, 44 percent of infected sites were found to have at least one backdoor file. Q: If I get hacked, can’t I just upload the backup of my site?

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Spinone

DECEMBER 12, 2018

There has never been a better time for organizations today to move to the public cloud than there is today in 2018. Application deployment, server management, networking, backups, security, and many other aspects of public cloud environments are vastly different than managing these aspects of infrastructure on-premise.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 22, 2025

In this blog, we will provide a glimpse into DanaBots capabilities and the groups activities.DanaBot (aka DanaTools) is a Delphi-based malware family released in May 2018 that has been used for a wide variety of nefarious purposes from online banking fraud to espionage. 15Adds firewall exclusions.16Instructs

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. It was designed to download payloads intended to exfiltrate XG Firewall-resident data.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

Consistently ranked as a top cybersecurity company, Fortinet’s VPN solution is FortiClient, a component of the FortiGate line of firewalls solutions. Customers can add IPVanish’s data backup solution for a marginal added fee, including a 500GB encrypted cloud backup, automatic syncing, and in-app file editing.

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The damages for 2018 were predicted to reach $8 billion; for 2019, the figure was $11.5 Also, some important actions could save you from this type of advanced attack: Take a backup of all your data Install Antivirus Software & Firewalls Keep All Systems And Software Updated References 1.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

observed Q2 2017 Cobalt Strike v3.12, observed Q3 2018 Cobalt Strike v3.14, observed Q2 2019. Besides using the Cobalt Strike beacon, the adversary also searches for VPN and firewall configs, possibly to function as a backup access into the network. com Q4 2017 – Q4 2018 – C2 domain officeeuupdate.appspot[.]com

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

During 2018, Evil Corp had a short lived partnership with TheTrick group; specifically, leasing out access to BitPaymer for a while, prior to their use of Ryuk. This increases the time for recovery for the victim, or in some cases due to unavailability of offline or offsite backups, prevents the ability to recover at all. exe”

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SC Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

The energy sector experienced a 74% increase in ICS vulnerabilities disclosed during the second half of 2020 compared to second half 2018. firewall rules, ACLs) in place to reduce the inherent risk. Are the backup and restore capabilities in place? How should security teams respond? Conduct a tabletop exercise.

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