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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. That same email address was assigned to the user “Semen-7907” on the now defunct gaming website tunngle.net , which suffered a data breach in 2020.

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Ransomware Accountability Cybercrime Backups 298

SecureList

JANUARY 31, 2025

The tool spins up its own SMB server, where it creates malicious policies, then changes the path to the GPT, and after applying the modified policies, restores them to their original state from its backup. However, the company believes that the ability to store GPTs outside of the SYSVOL system folder is a feature rather than a bug.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

Perform regular data backup procedures and maintain up-to-date incident response and recovery procedures. Ensure that you have dedicated management systems [ D3-PH ] and accounts for system administrators. Disable external management capabilities and set up an out-of-band management network [ D3-NI ].

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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. Further reading: Best Backup Products for Ransomware and Best Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services . BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 6, 2021

After a series of highly publicized ransomware attacks this spring, the Kaseya attack most resembles the compromise of SolarWinds in late 2020. Kaseya’s flagship product is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution called the Virtual Systems Administrator (VSA) and is the product at the center of the current attack.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2024

This affected system administrators worldwide. The fix: Administrators should download and install the KB5039705 OOB update via Windows Update, WSUS, or the Microsoft Update Catalog. The fix: Veeam released Backup Enterprise Manager version 12.1.2.172 and Backup & Replication version 12.1.2

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