Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The backup of a limited number of systems was also affected.” ” N ow all critical systems at the University are online and offline backups were secured by the company. Recently Microsoft warned that TA505 changed tactic in an ongoing malware campaign.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Google’s cloud security is well regarded (and the company has shared some documentation of its security architecture and practices too). Backup Is Hard. “ Immutable backups ” are often touted as the answer here. Also read : Is the Answer to Vulnerabilities Patch Management as a Service? Really Hard.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

According to the advisory that was issued with the help of leading cybersecurity firms (Dragos, Mandiant, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and Schneider Electric), nation-state hacking groups were able to hack multiple industrial systems using a new ICS-focused malware toolkit dubbed PIPEDREAM that was discovered in early 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

But it also requires software to orchestrate data movement, backup and restore technology to ensure a current copy of data is available, and the ability to recover systems and data rapidly. This type of backup and DR technology offers RPOs measured in hours. See the Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2022

The same symptoms will occur in your IT environment as the malware spreads downloading data and expanding across your global network corrupting backups and leaving little options. Network design and architecture. More complex architectures may be needed depending on the industry or the data. Asset inventory/patches.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 23, 2022

Carbonite Backup for Microsoft 365 offers SMBs the ability to protect their Microsoft 365 suite of productivity apps. If desired SMBs, can run backups up to four times per day. OneXafe supports one or multiple OneXafe nodes in a cluster and a single global file system in a scale-out architecture. Key Differentiators.

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SecureList

JUNE 22, 2023

We wrote about malware targeting Brazil, about CEO fraud attempts, Andariel, LockBit and others. Binary diffing across the two families Multi-platform LockBit We recently stumbled on a ZIP file, uploaded to a multiscanner, that contained LockBit samples for multiple architectures, such as Apple M1, ARM v6, ARM v7, FreeBSD and many others.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2022

Fourth, it should have features that are valuable for detecting and thwarting malware in general, such as exploit prevention , behavioral detection of never-before-seen malware , malicious website blocking , and brute force protection.”. Q: How is detecting ransomware different from other malware? How much space does it take?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Backup and disaster recovery procedures ensure that data is always available. Backup and Disaster Recovery: Data backup and disaster recovery plans assure data availability and business continuity in the event of data loss or service failures. Here are some examples of hybrid cloud security architectures.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Firewall clustering for Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual provides a highly resilient and reliable architecture for securing your AWS cloud environment. Backup Owner : The node that stores TCP/UDP state information received from the Owner so that the connection can be seamlessly transferred to a new owner in case of failure.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

When malware first breaches a network, it doesn’t make its presence known right away. Instead, it gathers information about the network and attempts to infect key specific locations — current malware can even target backup data to hamper recovery after the attack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2022

Sysrv-K leverages the exploits to take over the vulnerable web servers, the malware targets different issues, including a code injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22947 , that resides in the Spring Cloud Gateway library. The malware is equal parts XMRig cryptominer and aggressive botnet-propagator.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 27, 2021

TrustZone is a key part of our security architecture for general secure processing, but the security improvements included in Google Tensor go beyond TrustZone. The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro uses new machine learning models that improve the detection of malware in Google Play Protect. Security is a rigorous process.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

Specifically, the agency added: Recommendations for preventing common initial infection vectors Updated recommendations to address cloud backups and zero trust architecture (ZTA). Consider using a multi-cloud solution to avoid vendor lock-in for cloud-to-cloud backups in case all accounts under the same vendor are impacted.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Limited Control & Visibility Insufficient visibility into the cloud architecture causes delays in threat responses, increasing the risk of data breaches. Backup files: Regularly back-up public cloud resources. Malware There were 5.5 billion malware infections worldwide in 2022.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Focus on implementing robust backup and disaster recovery plans, user training, and the sharing of threat intelligence. Implementing a Zero Trust architecture involves verifying every attempt to access the system. Moving ahead, it’s crucial for SMBs, municipalities and healthcare institutions to prioritize.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

The TajMahal APT framework is a high-tech modular-based malware toolkit that supports a vast number of malicious plugins, but what makes it outstanding is a series of evasion techniques never seen before. The modular architecture makes it a privileged attack tool for several cyber espionage campaigns.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The heart of data protection, both in the enterprise and in the cloud, is backups. Backups allow organizations to protect their most valuable asset against all types of events or disaster recovery scenarios. In this post, we will take a look at the various aspects of engineering backup solutions in various environments.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

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. The victim is sent an email with an attachment, and once they click on the link, the malware file downloads. The developer has fewer risks, and the buyer does all of the work.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

The first traditional cybersecurity vendor featured is Barracuda Networks, with consistent recognition for its email security , next-generation firewalls ( NGFW ), web application security , and backups. Features: Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Secure SD-WAN. Features: Cisco SD-WAN. Features: Juniper Session Smart Routers and SASE.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Experts suggest focusing on: Understand the IT environment’s routine activity and architecture by establishing a baseline; Review data logs; Employ intrusion prevention systems and automated security alerting systems; Deploy honeytokens. ” reads the joint alert. Avoiding clicking on suspicious links.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

DNS Server Hardening DNS server hardening can be very complex and specific to the surrounding architecture. Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks. Relatively high frequency backups (daily or at least weekly). Local backups for quick access.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

” Ransomware is pretty simple: malware is installed covertly on a system and executes a cryptovirology attack that locks or encrypts valuable files on the network. This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. Offline Backups. Screenshot example.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 13, 2022

Decrypt for deeper analysis to detect malware on the wire, encrypted attacker communications, data theft, and insider threat; inspect; and re-encrypt traffic without slowing down network traffic. Clumio Protect & Discover offers backup and recovery for AWS, VMC, and Microsoft 365. Key Differentiators.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

This will allow the client to verify the specified features and the designer to proceed with the implementation of the software architecture. In particular, the security requirements must absolutely constrain the solutions that will be adopted. It’s also important to develop a user manual and outline how the system will be tested.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Cloud security means protecting all cloud computing environments, applications, and data from unauthorized access, hackers, malware, and other risks. Backup and recovery should also be important components of an organization’s data protection planning. This information will help build this security “compartmentalization architecture.”

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Email is typically the channel through which ransomware and malware are unleashed upon the enterprise. A recent HP Wolf Security report found that email now accounts for 89% of all malware. They spot unwanted traffic such as spam, phishing expeditions, malware, and scams. Phishing scams use it to compromise networks.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

More than a third (39%) used the microservice architecture. Mitigation: do not store files containing sensitive data, such as passwords or backups, in web application publish directories. Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) The popularity of the cloud and microservice architectures is on the rise.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2023

The variant, targeting macOS arm64 architecture, first appeared on VirusTotal in November and December 2022 but went unnoticed until late April when it was discovered by MalwareHunterTeam. Grixba checks for antivirus programs, EDR suites, backup tools to help them plan the next steps of the attack. Create offsite, offline backups.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2022

Fourth, it should have features that are valuable for detecting and thwarting malware in general, such as exploit prevention , behavioral detection of never-before-seen malware , malicious website blocking , and brute force protection.” ” Q: How is detecting ransomware different from other malware?

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for popular mods to contain malware. At the time of the malware discovery, this app had been downloaded to more than 100 million devices worldwide. According to our telemetry data, the domain has been contacted by Necro-family malware.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Recovery becomes costly as businesses suffer the majority of their losses through lost productivity, and backups don’t preclude expensive recovery. Modern-day ransomware attacks are vastly different from the malware attacks from the past. Backups Only Address a Small Part of Ransomware Recovery . Alberto Sigismondi.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A special thanks to our Professional Services’ IR team, ShadowServer , for historical context on C2 domains, and Thomas Roccia /Leandro Velasco for malware analysis support. McAfee customers are protected from the malware/tools described in this blog. The malware also decrypts and injects the payload in memory.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Use a zero trust architecture to secure internal applications, making them invisible to attackers. With a distributed workforce, it is important to implement a security services edge (SSE) architecture that can enforce consistent security policy no matter where your users are working (in office or remotely). Have a response plan.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2022

This year, ransomware is no less active than before: cybercriminals continue to threaten nationwide retailers and enterprises , old variants of malware return while the new ones develop. This means that their ransomware should be able to run on different combinations of architectures and operation systems.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Malware defense. Cloud providers or traditional anti-malware providers may offer solutions to solve this problem for IaaS customers for an additional fee. Customers will be fully responsible for securing the storage, transfer, and backup of data to their cloud environment. Data backup.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Better network security monitors for authorized, but inappropriate activities or unusual behavior that may indicate compromise, malware activity, or insider threat. These management applications can also check the status of the device for jailbreaking, obsolete OS, or malware, and require remediation before connecting with the network.

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