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8Base ransomware operators use a new variant of the Phobos ransomware

Security Affairs

Phobos variants are usually distributed by the SmokeLoader , but in 8Base campaigns, it has the ransomware component embedded in its encrypted payloads. The group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT.

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Over 39K unauthenticated Redis services on the internet targeted in cryptocurrency campaign

Security Affairs

. “Under certain conditions, if Redis runs with the root account (or not even), attackers can write an SSH public key file to the root account, directly logging on to the victim server through SSH. ” reads the post published by Zhu on September 11, 2022.

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Who’s Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

com , which says it belongs to a Las Vegas-based Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and digital marketing concern generically named both United Business Service and United Business Services. The name on the WHMCS account was Shmuel Orit Alon , from Kidron, Israel. and Renton, Wash.

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Top 7 SaaS Security Gaps for SMBs

Spinone

E-mail and file storage are basic necessities when it comes to businesses services. Maintaining these systems on-premises can be expensive, time consuming, require a great deal of support, and can encounter scalability issues depending on business growth. No security is 100% accurate and impenetrable.

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G Suite Admin Tasks Every Google Administrator Should Do

Spinone

However, by utilizing Google’s powerful infrastructure and software stack, businesses today are able to quickly have access to the same powerful infrastructure running Google’s services, as well as plug into Google’s business services such as Gmail , Google Team Drives , Google Calendar, and many other Google services.

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Office 365 Backup. The Cost of Data Loss

Spinone

The large public cloud vendors today, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, all have a multitude of services in their portfolio that businesses can generally find that fit any use case they may have for infrastructure or services. These two services are email and file storage.

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Cloud Security Checklist

Spinone

The cloud has certainly matured as a platform and solution for today’s business-critical applications. Organizations have chosen to run not only production virtual machines on top of cloud infrastructure but also business services such as email and file storage. Why does this create problems with security?

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