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Maastricht University finally paid a 30 bitcoin ransom to crooks

Security Affairs

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. TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors.

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Ransomware: How to Protect Your Data

CyberSecurity Insiders

Targeted companies in every industry including education, utilities, retail, finance and government. IT must respond quickly by shutting off system and networks to prevent ransomware from spreading – a considerable disruption – and restoring encrypted data from the most recent backup.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

Application Access: A retail website can make more requests than human users on any resource. Backups: Although more commonly applied to endpoints and data, networks also benefit from periodic backups of settings and configurations. Backup is also a critically important ransomware defense that can be hard to get right.

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Office 365 Security Concerns

Spinone

As is obviously the case, public cloud architecture is vastly different from on-prem enterprise datacenters. The architecture of the Cloud App Security platform as outlined by Microsoft: With the Cloud Discovery mechanism, Cloud App Security uses traffic logs to discover and analyze cloud apps found and utilized within the organization.

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Ransomware rolled through business defenses in Q2 2022

Malwarebytes

Here’s how the top five industries ranked by number of ransomware attacks this spring: Services: 171 Manufacturing: 76 Technology: 65 Utilities: 61 Retail: 50. This allows the malware to run on different combinations of operating systems and architectures. Noteworthy March attacks. Ransomware mitigations.

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

eSecurity Planet

Infrastructure Protection Defense against DDoS and DNS attacks starts with effective network security architecture. > 54% of all data breaches come from ransomware attacks in manufacturing, healthcare, government, financial, retail, and technology industries. 30% data breaches and +23% ransomware for the first two months of 2024.

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Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Point-in-time backup and recovery of contacts, email, calendars and files. Anti-evasion engines to uncover any attempt to hide or conceal malicious intent, including algorithms and architecture that allow scanning of all content in various forms and methods to ensure that the malicious intent is discovered. 100% email uptime SLA.

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