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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Akira ransomware received $42M in ransom payments from over 250 victims

Security Affairs

A joint advisory published by CISA, the FBI, Europol, and the Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) revealed that since early 2023, Akira ransomware operators received $42 million in ransom payments from more than 250 victims worldwide. The attackers mostly used Cisco vulnerabilities CVE-2020-3259 and CVE-2023-20269.

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New ransomware trends in 2023

SecureList

Although early 2023 saw a slight decline in the number of ransomware attacks, they were more sophisticated and better targeted. Later, we encountered a version of BlackBasta that targeted ESXi environments, and the most recent version that we found supported the x64 architecture. In 2022, Kaspersky solutions detected over 74.2M

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Emerging Trends in Cybersecurity: Strategies to Combat Cyber Extortion Attacks on Businesses in 2023

Cytelligence

As we passed the halfway point of 2023, businesses must stay ahead of emerging trends in cybersecurity and adopt effective strategies to combat these threats. Ransomware attacks, where hackers encrypt critical data and demand a ransom for its release, have become alarmingly common.

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Ransomware review: May 2023

Malwarebytes

The variant, targeting macOS arm64 architecture, first appeared on VirusTotal in November and December 2022 but went unnoticed until late April when it was discovered by MalwareHunterTeam. Grixba checks for antivirus programs, EDR suites, backup tools to help them plan the next steps of the attack. GB to a whopping 259 GB.

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Versa Unified SASE Review & Features 2023

eSecurity Planet

Physical appliances provide functionality for routing wide area networks (WANs), stateful firewalls, SD-WANs, NGFW, antivirus, intrusion prevention services (IPS), and unified threat management (UTM) capabilities for local networks.

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Top 7 Cloud Storage Security Issues & Risks (+ Mitigations)

eSecurity Planet

Limited Control & Visibility Insufficient visibility into the cloud architecture causes delays in threat responses, increasing the risk of data breaches. Failure to enforce security regulations and implement appropriate encryption may result in accidental data exposure. Make the default data storage settings private.

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