Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Microsoft today issued its final batch of security updates for Windows PCs in 2020, ending the year with a relatively light patch load. So do yourself a favor and backup before installing any patches.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

As first reported Monday by KrebsOnSecurity, Microsoft addressed a severe bug ( CVE-2020-0601 ) in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/19 reported by the NSA that allows an attacker to spoof the digital signature tied to a specific piece of software. So do yourself a favor and backup your files before installing any patches.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 14, 2020

Top of the heap this month in terms of outright scariness is CVE-2020-1350 , which concerns a remotely exploitable bug in more or less all versions of Windows Server that attackers could use to install malicious software simply by sending a specially crafted DNS request. .” Thankfully, I was able to restore from a recent backup.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have re-introduced the EARN IT Act , an incredibly unpopular bill from 2020 that was dropped in the face of overwhelming opposition. The EARN IT Act could ensure that anything hosted online — backups, websites, cloud photos, and more — is scanned. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Slashdot thread.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2025

A US chain of dental offices known as Westend Dental LLC denied a 2020 ransomware attack and its associated data breach, instead telling their customers that data was lost due to an accidentally formatted hard drive. In October 2020, Westend Dental was attacked by the Medusa Locker ransomware group.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Crooks are exploiting BTC blockchain transactions to hide backup command-and-control (C2) server addresses for a cryptomining botnet. Security experts from Akamai have spotted a new botnet used for illicit cryptocurrency mining activities that are abusing Bitcoin (BTC) transactions to implement a backup mechanism for C2.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Windows Server users also should be aware that Microsoft this month is enforcing the second round of security improvements as part of a two-phase update to address CVE-2020-1472 , a severe vulnerability that first saw active exploitation back in September 2020. So do yourself a favor and backup your files before installing any patches.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

from 2020 to 2027. The post The Data Security and Data Backup Disconnect appeared first on Security Boulevard. The cybersecurity market was valued at over $149 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach over $304 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 9.4% This huge size.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

“Previously, when a victim of ransomware had adequate backups, they would just restore and go on with life; there was zero reason to even engage with the threat actor,” the report observes. ” Image: Coveware Q3 2020 report. With stolen data, a threat actor can return for a second payment at any point in the future.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 13, 2021

Breen called attention to another critical vulnerability this month — CVE-2020-1660 — which is a remote code execution flaw in nearly every version of Windows that earned a CVSS score of 8.8 (10 10 is the most dangerous). Without full context of this vulnerability, we have to rely on Microsoft to make the decision for us.”

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

ArbiterSports, a software provider for several sports leagues including the NCAA, announced that it had averted a ransomware attack in July 2020, but despite blocking the attempt to encrypt their systems, the company discovered that a database backup had been accessed prior to the attack.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. 2020) was not in HaveIBeenPwned, but then again Facebook claims to have more than 2.7 A cybercrime forum ad from June 2020 selling a database of 533 Million Facebook users. According to a Jan.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2020 alone, we’ve seen ransomware attacks bring the operations of international corporations and high-powered law firms to a standstill. Consider researching the alternatives to Zoom to have a backup service in place if there’s another outage. Competing services such as Skype and Google Meet offer free versions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 1, 2021

Despite repeated warnings by the law enforcement agencies like the FBI against ransomware payments, Backup appliance maker Exagrid has reportedly paid $2.6m It was embarrassing for the backup appliance maker to bow down to the demands of the hackers. The post Backup appliance maker Exagrid pays $2.6m

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected–and do the best we can in a rapidly changing world. Backup your data: If you keep sensitive or valuable data in only one place on one device, it’s vulnerable to everything from ransomware to spilled coffee. That’s always the case when it comes to cybersecurity.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

billion by 2020, up 55% as compared to 2015, according to Allied Market Research. Kim: Yes, companies want assurance that they have an offline backup, yet they also want to be able to monitor what people are doing with those backups, as well. LW: Threats are still out there, essentially.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The threat actors attempted to exploit multiple vulnerabilities in DVRs, including CVE-2017-7921, CVE-2018-9995 , CVE-2020-25078, CVE-2021-33044 , and CVE-2021-36260. In March 2024, threat actors behind this campaign started targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

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Anton on Security

JANUARY 3, 2023

. — this data point is from 2020 , so treat this as a low boundary in 2023. This also reminds me that if you are owned, your cloud environment is probably also owned…] “Mandiant research indicates that threat actors are increasingly targeting backups to inhibit reconstitution after an attack. Now, go and read the report!

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2020

According to a private industry notification alert (PIN), sent by the FBI to private organizations, the Bureau is aware of extortion activities that have been happening since February 2020. This criminal practice is adopted since August by several gangs, including Sekhmet , Conti , and Ryuk. PIN Number 20201210-001.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

Researchers warn of a security flaw recently addressed in the WPvivid Backup Plugin that could be exploited to obtain all files of a WordPress website. WebARX experts warn of a missing authorization check recently addressed in the WPvivid Backup Plugin that could be exploited to obtain all files of a WordPress website.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. Gmail’s password recovery function says the backup email address for devrian27@gmail.com is bo3 *@gmail.com.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 12, 2019

Adobe will stop supporting Flash at the end of 2020. A good backup means you’re not pulling your hair out if the odd buggy patch causes problems booting the system. So do yourself a favor and backup your files before installing any patches. Staying up-to-date on Windows patches is good.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2020

With the caveat that I have nothing but circumstantial evidence to tie this person to the one who reached out to Next Glass, there's a thread on Reddit that aligns very closely to the facts of the matter : In february 2020, I received an email from Netflix that I had signed up for an account.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The startup started reporting the security incident to its customers that had their data accidentally exposed online, only users who registered on its platform before or on March 17, 2020, were impacted. ” The user details were contained in a file that appears to be an older backup.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2020 groups were demanding as much as $30 million to unlock a victim’s files and systems. By far the most prolific data leaker was Netwalker, the Ransomware-as-a-Service operation which released files and data for 113 different organizations between January 2020 and January 2021. High-end ransoms have gone up significantly too.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Tape vendors have been promoting themselves as a solution to the ransomware problem because of their ability to provide air-gapped data backup, but trying to recover terabytes of data from a tape drive can be a little like, well, running into red tape. Q: Can you air gap a disk backup system? Tape vs. Disk: The Ransomware Issues.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The data leak was first reported by experts from the security firm Under the Breach , the full SQL backup contains , emails, hashed passwords, and other information. – Full SQL backup. pic.twitter.com/MA6lH6JKt6 — Under the Breach (@underthebreach) February 26, 2020. Hacked due to exposed s3 AWS bucket.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 28, 2021

The product release is happening through Kasten business and K10 happens to be a cloud based backup and disaster recovery software that offers business continuity to Kubernetes environments. Veeam’s Kasten K10 platform supports HPE Ezmeral Container Platforms, Nutanix Karbon, Red Hat OpenShift, Microsoft Azure Stack and backup to NFS Targets.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

As part of this, many organizations use two or more clouds to meet business needs such as disaster recovery, data backup, application resiliency, and global coverage. 2 And according to the Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report , “93 percent of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy” while “87 percent have a hybrid cloud strategy.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Hackers are always interested in events that grab the attention of the entire globe and one such sporting event was the Tokyo Olympics 2020 that was postponed by the organizers because of COVID-19 Pandemic and rescheduled and held between July–August 2021 i.e. in this year. Tokyo Olympics 2020 Games were held at a cost of $15.8

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The University of Utah admitted having paid a $457,059 ransom after the ransomware attack that took place on July 19, 2020, that infected systems on the network of the university’s College of Social and Behavioral Science [CSBS]). The university did not reveal the ransomware family involved in the attack.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

FBI is warning private industry partners of a surge in Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a flash alert (MU-000140-MW) to warn private industry partners of an increase of the Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This includes pivoting from or converting a single compromised Microsoft Windows user account to an administrator account with greater privileges on the target network; the ability to sidestep and/or disable any security software; and gaining the access needed to disrupt or corrupt any data backup systems the victim firm may have.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. In April 2020, Truniger was banned from two of the top Russian cybercrime forums, where members from both forums confirmed that Semen7907 was one of Truniger’s known aliases. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2021

“The Multimedia Console, Media Streaming Add-on, and Hybrid Backup Sync apps need to be updated to the latest available version as well to further secure QNAP NAS from ransomware attacks. The company also recommends updating the Multimedia Console, Media Streaming Add-on, and Hybrid Backup Sync apps to the latest versions.

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