eSecurity Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

Cybercrime has skyrocketed in the last few years, and the websites of small and medium-sized companies have been the most frequent target of web attacks. The Admin interface allows for server and accounts management. Offsite backups SPanel accounts also get free daily backups to a remote server. But is this enough?

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It’s a good idea to prepare for cybercrime, and whenever possible avoid becoming a victim of it. None of this is to suggest that falling prey to holiday cybercrime is unavoidable or that the potential damage can’t be mitigated, but it is important to educate yourself, friends and family to safeguard the holiday season.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “ Evil Corp ” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 22, 2023

If you are already familiar with the evolving cyber threat landscape in your home country, you’ll know that humans are often the most exploited attack vector for cybercrime, and how frequently small businesses are breached. So, how exactly are these challenges exacerbated when moving your operations beyond borders?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

According to a report from McAfee Enterprise and FireEye titled, "Cybercrime in a Pandemic World: The Impact of COVID-19," 81% of global organizations have experienced increased cyberthreats, and 79% experienced downtime from an attack during a peak season. Cybersecurity attacks are on the rise, especially since the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

The Huntress Labs official account has been live-blogging its experience with the attacks on a Reddit thread. By around 3:15 pm, Huntress said in their posts it was aware of 200 businesses being encrypted over eight MSPs. Huntress said several MSPs it worked with had all customers’ data encrypted.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

3 Small businesses are at risk. As bad actors opt for a more agile and efficient approach, they’re turning their attention to “easy” targets: small businesses. This can be done using encryption. Now they can hire a team to do it for them.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A compounding problem of this complexity is that the responsibility of managing these risks often falls to those with the least capabilities: individuals, small businesses, and local governments. The path to better cybersecurity. It will improve public-private collaboration to tackle cyber challenges across sectoral lines.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The internet data transmitted on these networks is not encrypted. Since this data is not encrypted, the hackers do not have to do much to use that data for their evil purposes. It is because the tunnel is also encrypted and the encrypted data goes through this tunnel.

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SecureList

MAY 8, 2024

From high-profile breaches in healthcare and industrial sectors – compromising huge volumes of sensitive data or halting production entirely – to attacks on small businesses that have become relatively easy targets, ransomware actors are expanding their sphere of influence.

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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.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In Q3 2017, SiteLock discovered alarming cybercrime trends that will likely affect websites for months to come. Cybercriminals can encrypt their backdoor files with a decoding key that only they possess, meaning, no one else has access to their malicious file. In Q2 2017, backdoors accounted for 23 percent of malware files.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

5 Cyber Security Best Practices to Protect Your Business Data. Today, any company can fall victim to cybercrime, which has become a major problem around the world. That’s why large, medium-sized, and small businesses need to become more proactive in their approach to cyber security. Source [link].

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The threat actor abused Bitly shortener and an ad hoc BlogSpot account to protect the malicious code, lastly stored in an encrypted zip archive hosted on Mega.nz. The shared secret is used to encrypt the GZipped memory stream using a xor-based algorithm in a compress-then-encrypt fashion.

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Veracode Security

MAY 21, 2021

And CIS and McAfee reported that cybercrime cost 1 percent of global GDP in 2018. How many small businesses, schools, hospitals, or government agencies have an extra $13 million to spend on an unexpected breach? We need to prove to other countries that we hold cyber attackers accountable for the actions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Doing so provides the necessary context needed to restore trust and react in real time to protect user accounts — halting malicious access in its tracks.”. We’ve seen a steep rise in cybercrime in 2021 that we can expect to continue into the new year, and an effective defense begins with influential leaders.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

But according to denizens of several Russian-language cybercrime forums that have been following his case in the Israeli news media, Burkov was by all accounts an elite cybercrook who primarily operated under the hacker alias “ K0pa.” A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011.

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