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3 tips for creating backups your organization can rely on when ransomware strikes

Malwarebytes

Backups are an organization's last line of defense against ransomware, because comprehensive, offline, offsite backups give you a chance to restore or rebuild your computers without paying a criminal for a decryption key. Unfortunately, many organizations don't realize how important it is to make backups until it's too late.

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Top 10 web application vulnerabilities in 2021–2023

SecureList

Profile of participants and applications We collected the data from a sample of the application security assessment projects our team completed in 2021–2023. Mitigation: do not store files containing sensitive data, such as passwords or backups, in web application publish directories.

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9 Practical Tips to Take Your Cybersecurity Career to the Next Level

CyberSecurity Insiders

Cases of cyber-attacks are rapidly increasing, and businesses have every reason to worry following the recent prediction that damage costs might shoot beyond $6 trillion by the end of 2021. Cybersecurity services will still be in high demand 2021 and beyond. million jobs available by 2021. Explore related opportunities.

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A Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group

Krebs on Security

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.” ” In at least some of those recruitment ads — like one in 2018 on the forum sysadmins[.]ru

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PrintNightmare 0-day can be used to take over Windows domain controllers

Malwarebytes

In June, Microsoft patched a vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler that was listed as CVE-2021-1675. Which means that someone with limited access to a system could raise their privilege level, giving them more power over the affected system. They called theirs PrintNightmare and believed it was the same as CVE-2021-1675.

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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

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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China-linked threat actors have breached telcos and network service providers

Security Affairs

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 ].