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Top 7 Cloud Storage Security Issues & Risks (+ Mitigations)

eSecurity Planet

Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Failure to enforce security regulations and implement appropriate encryption may result in accidental data exposure. Backup files: Regularly back-up public cloud resources.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

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To protect the protocol, best practices will add additional protocols to the process that encrypt the DNS communication and authenticate the results. DNS Encryption DNS encryption can be achieved through the DNSCrypt protocol, DNS over TLS (DoT), or DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Firewalls should be hardened to close unneeded ports.

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FBI and Australia ACSC agencies warn of ongoing Avaddon ransomware attacks

Security Affairs

The gang threatens to publish the victim’s data and also use DDoS attacks against the victim (triple extortion). The ACSC also provided the following recommendations: Patch operating systems and applications, and keep antivirus signatures up to date. Maintain offline, encrypted backups of data and regularly test your backups.

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What is Ransomware? Everything You Should Know

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Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. These keys are available to the attacker, and the encryption can only be decrypted using a private key. How Does Ransomware Work?

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

Vendor reports note huge volume of attacks on local and public infrastructure, such as: CrowdStrike: Monitored hacktivist and nation-state distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks related to the Israli-Palestinian conflict, including against a US airport. 50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers.

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Avoslocker ransomware gang targets US critical infrastructure

Security Affairs

The AvosLocker ransomware-as-a-service emerged in the threat landscape in September 2021, since January the group expanded its targets by implementing the support for encrypting Linux systems, specifically VMware ESXi servers. Regularly back up data, password protect backup copies offline. hard drive, storage device, the cloud).

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NCSC warns of a surge in ransomware attacks on education institutions

Security Affairs

Once gained the foothold in the target network, the attackers will attempt lateral movements to elevate the privileges and search for high-value machines to encrypt (i.e. backup servers, network shares, servers, auditing devices). PowerShell) to easily deploy tooling or ransomware.

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