Webroot

AUGUST 27, 2021

Already in 2020, according to the report: 2,4000 governmental agencies, healthcare facilities and schools had been hit with ransomware $350 million had been paid out ransomware actors, a 311% increase over 2019 It was taking 287 days on average for a business to fully recover from a ransomware attack.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2019

On May 12, the administrator of OGusers explained an outage to forum members by saying a hard drive failure had erased several months’ worth of private messages, forum posts and prestige points, and that he’d restored a backup from January 2019.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

Phobos operation uses a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, it has been active since May 2019. Threat actors behind Phobos attacks were observed gaining initial access to vulnerable networks by leveraging phishing campaigns. Phobos is also able to identify and delete data backups. Phobos operators used WinSCP and Mega.io

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. 2FA that relies on a FIDO2 device can’t be phished. Phishing attacks often impersonate people or brands you know, and use themes that require urgent attention, such as missed deliveries, account suspensions, and security alerts.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A key concern for enterprises is another critical bug in the DNS server on Windows Server 2008 through 2019 versions that could be used to remotely install software of the attacker’s choice. by sending a phishing email with a link to a new domain or even with images embedded that call out to a new domain).

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The average ransomware demand continues to grow (up to $41,198 in Q3 2019, compared to $5,973 in the same period last year). How Ryuk Works Similar to other ransomware, Ryuk spreads by phishing emails or malicious pop-ups. Therefore, if you don’t have an external backup, you may not be able to recover your files.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

And the bad news is that few of the servers severely affected, making the staff to suspend any data transfers and backups to maintain data continuity. Security firm Emsisoft says that the cyber criminal group has been active since 2019 and could have launched attacks on over 46 organizations so far.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

SafetyDetectives reports the average cost of a ransomware-caused downtime incident has risen from $46,800 in 2018, to $141,000 in 2019, to $283,800 in 2020. New York City’s capital was hit with a ransomware attack in 2019 that took several key services offline. IBM says 1 in 4 of attacks its X-Force Team sees is caused by Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

“Since January 2019, LockerGoga ransomware has targeted large corporations and organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Norway, and the Netherlands. According to the alert, attackers leverage exploits, phishing attacks, credential stuffing to deliver the malware. ” reported BleepingComputer.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

billion to cybercriminals in 2019, according to the FBI. worldwide in 2019, according to a Ponemon Institute survey. If attackers can inject malicious code into these apps, they can deface websites with their own messages, steal customer data as they enter it in website forms, redirect visitors to phishing sites and more.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The LockBit Locker group is known for using a combination of advanced techniques, even phishing, and also social engineering, to gain initial access to a company’s network. However, the company was able to restore its network from backups and no client workstations were affected during the intrusions.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Data Security & Recovery Measures Reliable CSPs provide high-level security and backup services; in the event of data loss, recovery is possible. Users have direct control over data security but are also responsible for backup procedures and permanently lost data in the event of device damage or loss.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

According to the report, there were 408 publicly disclosed cyber incidents affecting school districts last year – 18% more than in 2019. 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.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Data Security: Airtight Backup If you don’t have a robust Data Loss Protection (DLP) plan, all your security strategy will fall apart. The core of all the DLP plan is having a ransomware-proof backup that will let you restore data in case you get hit. Backup your data at least three times a day; 3.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

Leakware is a potent, dangerous form of ransomware that emerged in 2019. Email phishing attacks are a common method hackers use to execute leakware. Filtering and analyzing can prevent phishing emails from ever making their way into an employee or executive's inbox. What is leakware? Prioritize employee cybersecurity training.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The Zeppelin ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in November 2019 when experts from BlackBerry Cylance found a new variant of the Vega RaaS, dubbed Zeppelin. The group uses multiple attack vectors to gain access to victim networks, including RDP exploitation, SonicWall firewall vulnerabilities exploitation, and phishing attacks.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

In February 2019, cybersecurity researchers stumbled upon an unsecured public-facing database that exposed over 800 million email addresses and associated personally identifiable information (PII), including names, gender, dates of birth, phone numbers, IP addresses, job titles and employers. In short, Verifications.io What should victims do?

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2019

“In January 2019 the NCSC published an alert to highlight a large-scale global campaign to hijack Domain Name Systems (DNS).” In the first half of 2019, hackers have modified the DNS settings of over 180,000 Brazilian routers with even more complex attacks. ” reads the security advisory.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

Observed since: September 2019 Ransomware note: Restore-My-Files.txt Ransomware extension: lockbit Kill Chain: Brute force attack on a web server containing an outdated VPN service > LockBit Sample hash: 9feed0c7fa8c1d32390e1c168051267df61f11b048ec62aa5b8e66f60e8083af. LockBit 2.0. txt Ransomware extension: .Encoded01 Mitigations.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 16, 2020

million, which is 1,5% lower than in 2019 The average cost of a breach for organizations with incident response teams and plans is $3.29 This is a tremendous growth compared to $6,733 in 2018 and $36,295 in 2019. Let’s take a look at this year’s statistics to evaluate the extent of the phishing threat.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. The joint alert also states that attackers scanning also enumerated devices for the CVE-2020-12812 and CVE-2019-5591 flaws. Implement network segmentation. Disable hyperlinks in received emails.

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Cytelligence

JANUARY 27, 2020

Damages from ransomware in 2019 rose to over $11.5 Effectiveness of data backup strategies. Threat actors attack tactics include the following: Phishing – using a phishing email the workstation is infected and access provided to the ransomware threat actors. Ransomware in 2019 . with several attacks in 2019.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2023

The Phishing email attack took place in the year 2021 and the Museum of Gloucester that identified the unauthorized intrusion is still being affected by the cyber incident. Acronis, the backup software developer and supplier, has downplayed the twitter speculations that its servers were compromised by a cyber-attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. New #Mespinoza #Ransomware [link] Ext: locked R/n: Readme.README Affected users, contact the support forum of @BleepinComputer pic.twitter.com/SbKxVEIXUd — Amigo-A (@Amigo_A_) October 25, 2019.

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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. Recent attacks. Version restores.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Backup files for Lion Air and parent airlines exposed and exchanged on forums. taxpayers hit by a phishing campaign delivering the Amadey bot. MMD-0063-2019 – Summarize report of three years MalwareMustDie research (Sept 2016-Sept 2019). MobiHok RAT, a new Android malware based on old SpyNote RAT.

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SiteLock

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

REvil (ransomware evil), also known as Sodin and Sodinokibi, is an ambitious criminal ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) enterprise group that rose to fame in 2019. It also deletes Windows copies of files and other backups to prevent file recovery. Back up your data and keep the backups off-line so they won’t be impacted by cyberattacks.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Discovered in April 2019 , DoppelPaymer ransomware is a type of malware belonging to the Dridex family of malware. DoppelPaymer ransomware is typically delivered through phishing or spam emails—and within the emails are attachments or links containing malicious code. What Is DoppelPaymer Ransomware? So, what is DoppelPaymer ransomware?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Bad Packets warns of over 14,500 Pulse secure VPN endpoints vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510. Apple released an emergency patch to address CVE-2019-8605 iOS flaw. Experts uncovered an advanced phishing campaign delivering the Quasar RAT. Ransomware attack hits DDS Safe backup service used by hundreds of dental offices.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

Computer Weekly said it had learnt that FatFace paid a £1.5m ($2 million US dollar) ransom to the Conti Ransomware gang , disclosing the gang gained access to FatFace network and their IT systems via a phishing email on 10th January 2021. conduct employee phishing tests. implement offline storage and tape-based backup.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 30, 2021

PYSA, which stands for “Protect Your System Amigo”, was first named in open source documents in December 2019, two months after Mespinoza was spotted in the wild. Don’t try to use backups because it were encrypted too. The PYSA ransomware is a variant of the Mespinoza ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 9, 2019

I had the chance to visit with Bresman at Black Hat 2019. Here’s a scenario for how AD is factoring into ransomware attacks: The attacker gets a toehold inside the network by phishing an employee login , or via a targeted credential stuffing exercise, or through cross-site scripting. You should be able to recover in less than 24 hours.”

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Very few people outside of the tech community had heard of SolarWinds before late 2019 when cyber criminals gained access to the SolarWinds’ network. In December 2019, the Travelex foreign exchange company was targeted by the REvil ransomware group. SolarWinds. So, it’s important to protect the data itself.

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Spinone

JULY 29, 2019

This is why about 5 million businesses have adopted G Suite as their productivity tool in 2019. It contains advanced anti-phishing and malware protection, data encryption, the ability to configure different security policies for each business category, and more. The fewer actions you need to take to achieve the result, the better.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

(The first is Ransom.Sodinokibi , which Malwarebytes has already profiled and has been detecting since 2019.). In the case of phishing campaigns, Wizard Spider and its affiliates have been known to use legitimate Google document URLs in the email body. ransomware and phishing scams). Implement network segmentation.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The logic of the raid mainly comes down to using unsecured RDP ports or spear-phishing to infiltrate networks and gain a foothold in them. In November 2019, the criminals behind a ransomware species called Maze started a new trend that is currently gaining momentum on the dark web. What does the future hold? Time will tell.

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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 Lab Link: [link] The user is going to get access to a Kali GUI instance and Windows Server 2019. Notably, this technique was observed in a spear-phishing campaign from the threat actor NOBELIUM in May. billion, and in 2021 it was $20 billion.

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