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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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In another news related to cyber attack, France Cyber Security authorities have detected that the United States SolarWinds cyber attack could have been launched on its infrastructure in 2017 that remained undetected till 2020 or until security firm FireEye revealed it to the world.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIST contest began in 2016, with the goal of improving general encryption and digital signatures. Quantum technology is accelerating—and with it, the quantum threat. Also read: Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 22, 2021

To all those who are using QNAP storage devices for backup or file sharing purposes, here’s an alert that needs your attention. It is learnt that the massive file encrypting malware campaign started on April 19th,2021 when victims took help of the technology forums to know more about the ransomware. BTC for each file.

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Spinone

AUGUST 29, 2019

In 2020, some IT specialists consider Office 365 to be so secure that they don’t need a backup. Written for IT Admins who wish to protect their digital business assets, this guide will help you to consider the best Office 365 backup solutions. You will also find out: Does Office 365 backup your data?

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ransomware attacks almost doubled during 2021 over 2020, according to Sophos State of Ransomware 2022 report, affecting 66% of businesses, up from 37%. They have also become increasingly proficient at encrypting data. In 2021, data encryption was successful in 65% of attacks, an increase from the 54% rate reported in 2020.

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SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

Visitors arrive at the cloud pavilion of Amazon Web Services at the 2016 CeBIT digital technology trade fair in Hanover, Germany. An SSM document can provide an attacker an initial foothold into the victim’s environment and sometimes even grant a view into the account’s deployment processes, resources, and backup procedures.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Estimates vary, but a recent FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report found an almost 10-fold increase in ransomware attacks between mid-2020 and mid-2021. Data backup. The first is high-integrity, air-gapped data backups , which is the quickest and cheapest way to recover from an attack. And the threat is growing.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Zero Trust.

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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. He declined to comment on the particulars of the extortion incident.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. Back up your data and secure your backups in an offline location. If the data is online, then it’s accessible to bad actors and just waiting to be encrypted for ransom. Ransomware? Related: Make it costly for cybercriminals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ransomware attacks have become much more dangerous and have evolved beyond basic security defenses and business continuity techniques like next-gen antivirus and backups. At this point, typical defenses for ransomware, such as backups and restoration of systems and data, do not apply. To learn more, contact an encryption specialist.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Malwarebytes has been tracking the group since December 2020. Both use the.kitty or.crypted file extension for encrypted files. LAUSD is the second largest school district In the US, and the attack targeted the LAUSD’s information technology systems during the Labor Day weekend. hard drive, storage device, the cloud).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

“Cyber criminal threat actors exploit network vulnerabilities to exfiltrate data and encrypt systems in a sector that is increasingly reliant on smart technologies, industrial control systems, and internet-based automation systems. The good news is in the latter attack the victims restored its backups.

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Webroot

APRIL 21, 2021

Although cybercriminal activity throughout 2020 was as innovative as ever, some of the most noteworthy threat activity we saw came from the old familiar players, namely ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) and phishing. By September 2020, the average ransom payment peaked at $233,817. “In

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

Since 2020, chosen-prefix attacks against SHA-1 are feasible. The same issues, or even worse, will be faced in the near future if businesses, organizations and agencies fail to be proactive in establishing concise and comprehensive policies and practices for migrating to a post-quantum encryption regime. SHA-1 Deprecation.

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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 attacks in April 2022.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 11, 2021

It has been around since 2019 and in June of 2020 it got some real traction due to a malspam campaign. Avaddon ransomware performs an encryption in offline mode using AES-256 + RSA-2048 to encrypt files. When encrypted the files get the.avdn extension. Free decryptor. Free decryptor. FBI description of Avaddon.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

In early 2020, researchers found something weird going on with Linux servers hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you wake up one morning and find that all of your files are encrypted along with a ransom note demanding a Bitcoin payment — you just may have been hit with QNAPCrypt. encrypt extension being appended to affected files.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 18, 2020

Hackers encrypted some files. Here is Carnival Corporation's ransomware and cyber incident statement, in full: On August 15, 2020, Carnival Corporation and Carnival plc (together, the "Company," "we," "us," or "our") detected a ransomware attack that accessed and encrypted a portion of one brand’s information technology systems.

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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. they might use this initial access for future attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The ransomware encrypts files on compromised Windows host systems, including physical and virtual servers, the advisory noted, and the executable leaves a ransom note in all directories where encryption occurs, including ransom payment instructions for obtaining a decryption key. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated its #StopRansomware guide to account for the fact that ransomware actors have accelerated their tactics and techniques since the original guide was released in September of 2020. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Drive-by-downloads.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Back in June, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an advisory that married together two of today’s major cybersecurity concerns: remote access technology and ransomware. Generally speaking, this is any technology that lets you access your organization’s IT resources while you’re away from the office. What’s the problem?”

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

As part of the symposium, Doug Levin, K12 SIX national director, and president of EdTech Strategies and the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center, revealed troubling findings from his newly published report, “ The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2020 Year in Review.”. We’re taking advantage of Google for Education’s unlimited backups.”.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As the sophistication of the modern supply chain advances, and as the sector becomes more reliant on smart technologies and Internet of Things (IoT) processes, the attack surface expands. The cybercriminals downloaded several terabytes of data through their identified cloud service provider prior to the encryption of hundreds of folders.

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Hacker Combat

JUNE 2, 2022

In December 2020, the DoppelPaymer extortion gang exposed documents allegedly stolen from some of its databases in the United States. However, unconfirmed reports indicate that the impact of the latest ransomware attack on Foxconn’s operational technology system is still unknown. How to Recognize a Ransomware Attack.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2 To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. Technological Tactics. Technological tactics.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The company's SEC filing revealed the ransomware attack was detected on July 28, 2020. Mattel discovered that it was the victim of a ransomware attack on its information technology systems that caused data on a number of systems to be encrypted. Was it from backups or perhaps paying a ransom? How did it do so?

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SC Magazine

JUNE 9, 2021

Mandiant Chief Technology Officer Charles Carmakal testified that the program may have had bugs, but was perfectly functional. While Mandiant opted to forgo using the program, it was only because working from backups was quicker. needled the company for paying a ransom if it was working from backups.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This was the fifth time the mobile carrier announced a major cyber incident, and the latest came on the heels of two attacks in 2020, one in 2018, and another in 2018. . Under a Zero Trust policy, every user and transaction must be validated before access to an enterprise resource is granted, even for a legitimate operation like encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 12, 2021

billion in revenue during its fiscal year 2020, has declined to comment on whether it saw the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) attack as an insider job or how many of their systems were impacted. ” Accenture Got Backup Right. There was no impact on Accenture’s operations, or on our clients’ systems.”

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

From the WmiPrvSE.exe process, it makes a backup of the VFS file, copying mods.lrc to mods.lrs. Encryption and communication As we have mentioned above, two modules (Crypton.dll and Internet.dll) are bundled with every installation of the CloudWizard framework. module execution results) is encrypted with a combination of AES and RSA.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has forced enterprises of all sizes and industries to adopt new work approaches that keep employees safe at home while ensuring productivity and security. VPNs are intrinsically designed to be encrypted tunnels that protect traffic, making them a secure choice for enabling remote work.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Over the last decade, K–12 schools have made great strides in employing technologies that facilitate learning—especially since the onset of pandemic-induced distance education. By January 2023, education had claimed over 80 percent of all global malware incidents —a staggering lead that has held since 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

Enter VPN technology. VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. Also Read: Tokenization vs. Encryption: Pros and Cons. Both the standalone VPN and VPN + Backup come with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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Spinone

JUNE 28, 2020

The Cost of Non-Compliance Many business leaders may rationalize that the cost of non-compliance may be less the spending required to bring technology and data processes under compliance. Contrast this with the state of affairs in 2020. SpinOne provides a holistic approach to ensuring your data is protected, secure, and compliant.

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