Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

firm Frost & Sullivan suffered a data breach, data from an unsecured backup that were exposed on the Internet was sold by a threat actor on a hacker forum. “The breach occurred to a misconfigured backup directory on one of Frost and Sullivan public-facing servers. ” reported BleepingComputer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This includes pivoting from or converting a single compromised Microsoft Windows user account to an administrator account with greater privileges on the target network; the ability to sidestep and/or disable any security software; and gaining the access needed to disrupt or corrupt any data backup systems the victim firm may have.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2020

The group confirmed that the broadcasting of France 3 will be transferred to the headquarters of France Televisions, the company also activated the backup site in response to the incident. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, France Télévisions).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2024

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The data leak was first reported by experts from the security firm Under the Breach , the full SQL backup contains , emails, hashed passwords, and other information. – Full SQL backup. On some specialized sites, this service is advertised at a reasonable price.” Hacked due to exposed s3 AWS bucket.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

To stay cybersecure and private on vacation, the majority of people will backup their data (53%), ensure their security software is up to date (63%), and set up credit card transaction alerts (56%), but 10% will take none of theseor othersteps. A particularly plugged-in 8% of people said they manage more than seven apps for the same purposes.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2020

The City of Lafayette, Colorado, USA, has been forced to pay $45,000 because they were unable to restore necessary files from backup. “Financial data appears to be recoverable from unaffected backups. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In addition, the database included the Apple iCloud username and authentication token of mobile devices running mSpy, and what appear to be references to iCloud backup files. Akbar was charged with selling and advertising wiretapping equipment. In September 2014, U.S.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Full disclosure: DomainTools is a frequent advertiser on this website.]. Gmail’s password recovery function says the backup email address for devrian27@gmail.com is bo3 *@gmail.com. It’s unclear whether these domains ever were online, but the street address on both records was “ 24 Brondeg St. Image: Flashpoint.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2020

The company’s backup data are complete and functioning. Stadler did not pay the ransom and has resumed operations by restoring its backups. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 8, 2025

Since then, companies have openly advertised negotiation services, based on a willingness for cyber insurance companies to reimburse victims as part of their policy coverage. Ransomware demands have also ballooned as this form of cybercrime continues to gain traction. The problem is that ransomware operators aren’t trustworthy.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

Researchers warn of a security flaw recently addressed in the WPvivid Backup Plugin that could be exploited to obtain all files of a WordPress website. WebARX experts warn of a missing authorization check recently addressed in the WPvivid Backup Plugin that could be exploited to obtain all files of a WordPress website.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2019

The total size is uncertain, but the researcher downloaded a sample of about a terabyte in size, including 750 gigabytes of compressed email backups.” “When such backups are exposed, they can contain a variety of data from system credentials to personally identifiable information.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2020

Even if the MSU will restore from backups, the NetWalker ransomware gang will leak the documents stolen on its dark web leak site. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reported ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

. “In the summer of 2020, Google determined that Glupteba malware was being disseminated on numerous third-party software download sites, online movie streaming sites, and video downloader sites, often advertised as “free downloads.” ” reads the post published by Google. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Maze Ransomware Operators).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The University was able to recover the operations from the backups, but decided to pay the ransom to avoid having ransomware operators leak student information online. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2020

This list contains processes related to the industrial world and several security and backup solutions.” ” The malware would kill any process that might potentially interfere with the encryption, including those associated with industrial software, backup solutions, and of course security tools. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SPIE group).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

“It appears someone was able to breach the server through a custom plugin in the forum software and get access to an old backup dating December 26, 2018.”. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Nefilim ransomware).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

“As part of this attack, the operators behind the Sodinokibi ransomware told BleepingComputer that they had encrypted the company’s entire network, deleted backup files, and copied more than 5GB of personal data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2019

IT staff has restored the normal operations using the backups. Ransomware attacks continue to represent a serious threat for companies and organizations, it is essential to adopt good cyber hygiene using defence software, having up to date applications and implementing an efficient backup policy. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2020

Upon rebooting the computer, a binary is executed to overwrite the MBR after it has created a backup of the original MBR in the first sector. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . Your Computer Has Been Trashed.”.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2020

The City will use backup to resume operations, the good news is that backup servers were not affected. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Knoxville, ransomware).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Aerial Direct’s data breach notification sent to the customers revealed that an unauthorized third party had been able to access customer data on 26 February through an external backup database. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

backup servers, network shares, servers, auditing devices). In some attacks, government experts also observed the sabotage of backup or auditing devices to make recovery more difficult, the encryption of entire virtual servers, the use of scripting environments (i.e. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

The FBI also provides recommendations to mitigate the risks associated with ransomware attacks, such as periodically back up the data to an off-line backup system, keep any software up to date, disable unused RDP accesses, use of two-factor authentication (2FA) wherever possible. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ProLock).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

re abruptly announced it was permanently closing after a cybersecurity breach allowed unknown intruders to trash its servers and delete customer data and backups. That is a far cry from the proxy inventory advertised by 911, which stood at more than 200,000 IP addresses for rent just a few days ago. Image: Spur.us.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2020

The threat actors also published screenshots of database backup entries as recent as July 2020. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Brown-Forman).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2020

The backup and recovery systems should help limit the damage and recover most of the data,” Vassal added. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Marseille ).

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Zero Day

JUNE 26, 2025

Don't save screenshots of sensitive information, such as IDs, passports, crypto wallets, seed phrases, passwords, and two-factor authentication backup codes. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use Either delete this data or move the screenshots to a password-protected folder. All rights reserved.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

Toll has shut down its MyToll portal and is currently removing the threat from its systems before restoring data from backups. This includes cleaning affected servers and systems, and restoring files from backups.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

Encryption is executed using gaze.exe , which disables security tools, deletes backups, and encrypts files with AES-256 before dropping a ransom note. At this stage, Medusa concurrently advertises sale of the data to interested parties before the countdown timer ends. Attackers use Mimikatz to steal credentials.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

The gang also claims to have erased the City’s local backups and to have stolen over 200 GB of files. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. million ransom. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

” Experts recommend to have secure working backup procedures, in case of attack, victims could simply recover data from a backup. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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