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. Audit user accounts with administrative privileges and configure access controls with least privilege in mind, and use multifactor authentication.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The FBI, CISA, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) recently revealed that the number of ransomware incidents against K-12 districts increased dramatically at the beginning of fall 2020 classes. Use multi-factor authentication where possible. K-12 districts now top ransomware target.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

REvil (aka Sodinokibi) first appeared in May 2020 and has been responsible for numerous high-profile ransomware attacks, including arguably the biggest ransomware attack of all time—a supply-chain attack on Kaseya VSA in July 2021 that is thought to have affected over 1,000 businesses. An old enemy returns. Ransomware mitigations.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 12, 2021

Monday morning, Pacific time, the FBI confirmed that the ransomware culprit is DarkSide, a fairly new strain that started making a name roughly in mid- to late-2020. Your computers and servers are encrypted, backups are deleted. Threat profile: DarkSide ransomware. We use Strong encryption algorithms, so you cannot decrypt your data.

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Spinone

JANUARY 28, 2020

We recommend using the Kaspersky free removal tool in case your antivirus program can’t detect or delete a screen locker. New ransomware forms can even seep into your backup and encrypt it, leaving you with no options rather than to pay. They have neither regular backup nor ransomware protection measures in place.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

By January 2023, education had claimed over 80 percent of all global malware incidents —a staggering lead that has held since 2020. In fact, 57 percent of all ransomware incidents disclosed to the FBI involved K–12 districts at the start of the 2020/2021 school year, compared to just 28 percent the year prior.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

How to Protect Against Social Engineering Attacks Organizations can protect themselves against social engineering attacks by educating employees about the risks, enabling multi-factor authentication, and implementing security policies that require verification of any requests for sensitive information or actions.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

31, 2021, the HSE’s antivirus software detected the execution of two software tools commonly used by ransomware groups — Cobalt Strike and Mimikatz — on the Patient Zero Workstation. But the antivirus software was set to monitor mode, so it did not block the malicious commands.”

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Backup files: Regularly back-up public cloud resources. Mitigating DDoS Attacks To lessen the risk of a DDoS attack, implement the following methods: Use traffic filtering: Traffic filtering technologies separate authentic and malicious traffic, allowing the system to reject harmful requests.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Install an antivirus solution that includes anti-adware capabilities. With over 600,000 devices, this botnet exposed just how vulnerable IoT devices could be and led to the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020. If your antivirus software fails to notice a new strain, you can reinstall the browser. with no internet.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Conti ransomware and the group that distributes it has been a dangerous, noisy presence in the ransomware ecosystem since 2020. Implement regular backups of all data to be stored as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Install and regularly update antivirus software on all hosts, and enable real-time detection.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

October 29, 2020. Use multi-factor authentication where possible. Identify critical assets such as patient database servers, medical records, and teleheatlh and telework infrastructure; create backups of these systems and house the backups offline from the network. Ryuk attacks on hospitals: 'unprecedented'.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Cyber attacks nowadays do not often come from ingenious ‘hackers’ in dark rooms, they’re often the result of an employee reusing the same password, or businesses not implementing basic practices such as multi-factor authentication. Increasingly, traditional sandboxing and antivirus software aren’t enough.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

In both the NotPetya attack of 2017 and the Solar Winds attack of 2020 , attackers inserted malware into trusted updates that allowed the APT to affect all of the victim’s customers and connected networks. Maintain effective endpoint security ( antivirus , EDR ). Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA). Use strong passwords.

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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. Support services for securing data only grew when Imperva acquired database security platform jSonar in October 2020. Database Technical Security.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Multi-factor authentication : Protects stolen credentials against use by requiring more than a simple username and password combination for access to resources. Passwordless authentication : Eliminates passwords in favor of other types of authentication such as passkeys, SSO, biometrics, or email access. 50% cloud targets.

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

This golden age came to a sudden end with a sharp decline in 2020. This change in working patterns could be an explanation for what happened between Q1 & Q3 2020, when campaigns were drastically more aggressive than usual and bot infections intensified (and were also of lower quality, as if it was an emergency). PFX ?????????? ?

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