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 ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” Offline Backups.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

It's slightly different from a standard ransomware attack—encrypting a user's files is a secondary concern. Essentially, leakware attacks demand victims pay a ransom to accomplish two things: recover their encrypted data and prevent confidential, sensitive information from being disseminated. What is leakware? According to the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Treasury Department report linked nearly $600 million in transactions to ransomware payments in “Suspicious Activity Reports” financial services firms have filed to the U.S. Zero Trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets, user accounts, microservices, or data based solely on their location. A recent U.S.

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Spinone

JULY 21, 2020

Read our article dedicated to CCPA: CCPA compliance checklist PCI-DSS Payment processors and other financial services providers may need to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). This standard helps to prevent credit card fraud and ensures that financial information is protected. success rate.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work. That said, empower your employees with an effective and simple Data Loss Protection solution , allowing Automated backup and restore, deletion control , smooth migration, version control , activity reports, etc.,

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Attempt access to file and SQL servers with privileged accounts. In addition to encrypting data and holding it hostage, ransomware attackers also upload valuable data to other systems on the internet. Rather than stealthily copying the data, ransomware attackers may upload the data quickly to a website via FTP using SSH encryption.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The days where victims could simply pay ransom for an encryption key, unscramble their data, and move on are ending. Now that some companies have managed to avoid paying ransom by restoring from backup, the gangs have upped their game. In 20+ years now of investigating cyber-related crime, this is the busiest I have ever been.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

In a FLASH publication issued by the FBI in coordination with DHS/CISA, the FBI says it has identified at least 52 organizations across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including organizations in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The gang has scored a series of resonant attacks on oil companies, financial services , government agencies and healthcare providers. As with most cyberextortionists lately, the Cuba gang encrypts victims’ files and demands a ransom in exchange for a decryption key. It looks for data both locally and inside network shares.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

The eight areas are: Application Control Patch Applications Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings User Application Hardening Restrict Administrative Privileges Patch Operating Systems Multi Factor Authentication Daily Backups Each area comes with guidance to improve maturity of the area.

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Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2019

This includes such critical capabilities as backing up mission critical data, controlling data locality of both production and backup data. Security and Data Leak Security and specifically data leak are tremendously concerning for financial institutions. Financial data is perhaps one of the most sensitive types of data.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Furthermore, 50% encountered ransomware and other malware; 29% reported incidents of data getting exposed; 25% had accounts compromised; and 17% dealt with incidents of crypto-jacking. These protocols need to be accounted for. Sophos found that fully 70% of organizations experienced a public cloud security incident in the last year.

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