Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. We talked about NAS devices and ransomware in the weekly review 37/2022.”

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

But it also requires software to orchestrate data movement, backup and restore technology to ensure a current copy of data is available, and the ability to recover systems and data rapidly. This type of backup and DR technology offers RPOs measured in hours. See the Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

Black Basta ransomware affiliates have breached over 500 organizations between April 2022 and May 2024, FBI and CISA reported. Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has been active since April 2022, it impacted several businesses and critical infrastructure entities across North America, Europe, and Australia.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

Perhaps records after that date have all made the leap to digital status only, with no backups available. Maybe there are backups, but those have been encrypted by ransomware too. ” At the very least, 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) is needed here. Store your backups externally away from the main network.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

The pre-release announcement for Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2022 states that Oracle will fix 483 new flaws. This pre-release announcement for Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2022 confirms that Oracle security updates will address 483 new security patches. The highest CVSS v3.1 Base Score (10.0) Base Score of 9.9.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. We talked about NAS devices and ransomware in the weekly review 37/2022.”

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

April 2022 was most notable for the emergence of three new ransomware-as-a-service ( RaaS ) groups— Onyx , Mindware , and Black Basta —as well as the unwelcome return of REvil , one of the world’s most notorious and dangerous ransomware operations. Ransomware attacks in April 2022. Known ransomware attacks in April 2022 by country.

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Hacker Combat

APRIL 22, 2022

Below are Seven ransomware protection tips to help you secure data in 2022; #1 Do not open suspicious attachments. 2 Backup your data. 3 Enable multi-factor authentication. Multifactor authentication is a verification method that requires a user to go through two or more steps to access sensitive information.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2022

In this March 2022 ransomware review, we go over some of the most successful ransomware incidents based on both open source and dark web intelligence. Implement regular backups of all data to be stored as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Use double authentication when logging into accounts or services. Source: IC3.gov.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

On September 6, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team was informed of a vulnerability being actively exploited in the BackupBuddy WordPress plugin. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-31474 (CVSS score: 7.5), can be exploited by an unauthenticated user to download arbitrary files from the affected site. on September 2, 2022.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

In this February 2022 ransomware review, we go over some the most successful ransomware incidents based on both open source and dark web intelligence. Observed since: February 2022 Ransomware note: read_me.html Ransomware extension: <original file name> [vote2024forjb@protonmail[.]com].encryptedJB SFile (Escal). Mitigations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

“The security assessment was provided in September 2022 to the Brocade support through Dell but it was rejected by Brocade because it didn’t address the latest version of SANnav.” The following vulnerabilities, discovered by the security researcher Pierre Barre , impact all versions up to 2.3.0 ” wrote Barre.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In 2022, Boeing recorded $66.61 billion in sales, the aerospace giant has 156,000 (2022). Bleeping Computer analyzed the leaked data and reported that most of the published data are backups for various systems. The LockBit ransomware group published data allegedly stolen from the aerospace giant Boeing in a recent attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-36537 (CVSS score: 7.5), in the ZK Java Web open-source framework to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. This flaw impacts multiple products, including but not limited to ConnectWise R1Soft Server Backup Manager.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Ransomware attacks increased by yet another 80% between February 2021 and March 2022, based on an analysis of ransomware payloads seen across the Zscaler cloud. Prepare for the worst with cyber insurance, a data backup plan, and a response plan as part of your overall business continuity and disaster recovery program. About ThreatLabz.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

WordPress has forced the update of the UpdraftPlus plugin around three million sites to address a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0633 (CVSS v3.1 that can allow website subscribers to download the latest database backups, which could potentially contain sensitive data. score of 8.5) and Premium before 2.22.3

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

About the only consensus on cybersecurity in 2022 is that things will get uglier, but in what ways? Here are some of the more interesting predictions for 2022 we’ve seen from cybersecurity researchers. Here are some of the more interesting predictions for 2022 we’ve seen from cybersecurity researchers.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Tripwire’s tips for all organizations on avoiding ransomware attacks include: Making secure offsite backups. Last month, the U.S. healthcare organizations. ” . ”

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2022

The advisory contains indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with ransomware variants identified through FBI investigations as recently as June 21, 2022. Maintain offline backups of data, and regularly maintain backup and restoration. Authentication.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A hardware security key uses public-key encryption to authenticate a user, and is much harder to defeat than other forms of authentication, such as passwords, or codes sent by SMS or generated by apps. For those users that choose to enable Advanced Data Protection, this will rise to 23, including iCloud Backup, Notes, and Photos.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to the FBI, Play made around 300 victims between June 2022 and October 2023 among a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure in North America, South America, and Europe. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Don’t get attacked twice.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Cyberattack Statistics. Mobile attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The company has expanded its end-to-end encryption to 23 of iCloud data categories that include cloud backups, notes, and photos along with Apple Music Sing, and Freeform. From December 23rd,2022 the feature will be available in the United States and will spread to other parts of the world by February last week next year i.e. 2023.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Data Security & Recovery Measures Reliable CSPs provide high-level security and backup services; in the event of data loss, recovery is possible. Users have direct control over data security but are also responsible for backup procedures and permanently lost data in the event of device damage or loss.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2022

Mon, 05/09/2022 - 05:40. Attacks on Critical National Infrastructure will continue to rise in 2022 as ransomware gangs show no signs of abating. However, even after the Colonial Pipeline attack, less than half of businesses (48%) have a formal ransomware plan according to the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report. east coast.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

infosec #cybersecurity #threatintel #cyber #NFL pic.twitter.com/tl7OWM2Aqf — CyberKnow (@Cyberknow20) February 12, 2022. Version two of BlackByte does not have this flaw, so the 49ers will likely have to rely on backups to recover its affected systems. Smart marketing tbh. A timely FBI advisory.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2022

Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) devices provide emergency backup power for mission-critical systems. CVE-2022-22805 – TLS buffer overflow: A memory corruption bug in packet reassembly (RCE). CVE-2022-0715 – Unsigned firmware upgrade that can be updated over the network (RCE). .” ” concludes the report.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

BackupBuddy is a plugin which offers backup solutions designed to combat “hacks, malware, user error, deleted files, and running bad commands” Unfortunately, running an older version of BackupBuddy could leave your site open to potential breaches. Backup to version 8.7.5 Traversing a WordPress installation. up to 8.7.4.1.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Portnox is a private company that specializes in network access security with nearly 1,000 customers and closed a Series A fundraising with Elsewhere Partners for $22 million in 2022. authentication to gather endpoint information for reporting and enforcement. Agents Portnox does not require an agent.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2023

In October, researchers from Rapid7 warned of the exploitation of another unpatched zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-41352 , in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. According to Zimbra users, the vulnerability is actively exploited since early September 2020.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A new report from KuppingerCole Names ForgeRock an Overall Leader in Passwordless Authentication. If passwordless authentication is a destination, then identity orchestration is the highway to get there. In recognition of this movement, KuppingerCole has published its very first Leadership Compass for Passwordless Authentication.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2022

In practice, in the last few years this has meant pairing passwords with something else, such as a one-time code from an app or an SMS message, in a scheme called two-factor authentication ( 2FA ). And this is what allows you to approve your authentication to a website using your iPhone’s Touch ID or Windows Hello.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2022

Enforce MFA on MSP accounts that access the customer environment and monitor for unexplained failed authentication. Enforce multifactor authentication (MFA). Backup systems and data. Manage account authentication and authorization. Enable/improve monitoring and logging processes. Apply the principle of least privilege.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

After issuing advisories about MedusaLocker and Zeppelin ransomware , this is the third CSA of 2022 which aims to provide technical information on ransomware variants and ransomware threat actors. Maintain offline backups of data, and regularly maintain backup and restoration. Ensure all backup data is encrypted, immutable (i.e.,

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2022

Threat actors behind the Twilio hack also gained access to the accounts of 93 individual users of its Authy two-factor authentication (2FA) service. Twilio last week announced that that the threat actors also gained access to the accounts of 93 individual users of its Authy two-factor authentication (2FA) service. Pierluigi Paganini.

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