Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2021

As a Domain Admin they could then act almost with impunity, spreading ransomware, deleting backups and even disabling security software. If they can secure any kind of access, they can potentially use PrintNightmare to turn a normal user into an all-powerful Domain Admin. Mitigation.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Ransomware attacks, despite dramatically increasing in frequency this summer , remain opaque for many potential victims. It isn’t anyone’s fault, necessarily, since news articles about ransomware attacks often focus on the attack, the suspected threat actors, the ransomware type, and, well, not much else.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Always keep your eyes open to control-rights of the senior IT managers or systems administrators with the authority to configure servers, firewalls, cloud storage, and file-sharing (or another network privilege). One example is our phenomenal Ransomware Protection and G Suite security feature.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

That’s like the worst feeling you’ll ever have,” Tipton said about his initial impressions about a fast-moving ransomware attack that he originally thought hit just his company. Their backups worked, Tipton said, but the process itself happened slower than expected. Ransomware recovery lessons. Say goodbye to public whitelists.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

These are words that no system administrator or business leader wants to hear from anyone using a computer on their network. However, this year in 2019, many IT professionals and business leaders alike have had to deal with the very real and alarming scenario of a ransomware attack. Is cloud storage safe from ransomware?

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Spinone

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Ransomware has arguably been the most commonly talked about topic in the security world regarding risks to organizations and their data. There has been somewhat of a misnomer when it comes to thinking that you can “ protect against Ransomware with public cloud storage.”

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 6, 2021

Managed service providers (MSPs) have long relied on third-party software to manage clients’ IT infrastructure, but a massive ransomware attack launched over the weekend at customers of Kaseya will likely cause MSPs to take a harder look at the security of their IT suppliers. Backup data regularly. VSA server breached.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

With lateral movement across a victim’s IT infrastructure, threat actors can escalate privileges, spread malware , extract data , and disrupt IT services as with ransomware attacks. SamSam Ransomware: Malware Specializing in RDP. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

This cloud-centric model offers administrators granular network management opportunities while leveraging the bandwidth and reducing the cost of service delivery. Experienced administrators understand the importance of inspecting all network traffic. Traditional Networks vs Software-Define Networks (SDN). Inspecting Web Traffic.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Is it the hospital, which should have had a power backup? And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018. I had tweeted this video, it's pinned on our Twitter account hack, not crime. Let's say someone hacks into the local power grid and, as a result, a hospital loses power to its critical patient care units.

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