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Ransomware Backup Strategy: Secure Your Backups

Spinone

When someone asks you about the best ransomware protection , the first thing you’ll probably come up with is a backup. After all, backup is the only security practice that actually can get your infected data back. Ransomware can infect backups. Can Ransomware Encrypt Backups? But there is a problem.

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3 things the Kaseya attack can teach us about ransomware recovery

Malwarebytes

It also started the blog that became the basis for this article. Backups take time. Recovering from a ransomware attack normally means rebuilding everything from backups. And that makes backups a target for ransomware. However, stopping the attackers getting to the backups is only half the battle.

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Top IT Areas You Need to Check to Strengthen Your Cybersecurity

CyberSecurity Insiders

This article discusses top areas in IT where you need to strengthen cybersecurity measures to avoid data breaches and information loss: Networks. One of the most vulnerable areas that hackers use to infiltrate a company’s system is the network. Data Backup. Security Systems. Data Security.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

In this process authorities seized numerous backup hard drives [containing] a large portion of Orcus Technologies business, and practices,” Rezvesz wrote. Rezvesz maintains his software was designed for legitimate use only and for system administrators seeking more powerful, full-featured ways to remotely manage multiple PCs around the globe.

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PrintNightmare 0-day can be used to take over Windows domain controllers

Malwarebytes

As a Domain Admin they could then act almost with impunity, spreading ransomware, deleting backups and even disabling security software. This remains a developing situation and we will update this article if more information becomes available. Mitigation.

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Top 10 web application vulnerabilities in 2021–2023

SecureList

Mitigation: do not store files containing sensitive data, such as passwords or backups, in web application publish directories. During one of the projects, an SQL injection into an application that was open to signup by any internet user let us obtain the credentials of an internal system administrator.

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Questionable Colors? Or Malicious Code?

SiteLock

In this article, we will explore a malware encoding mechanism that hides the payload in RGB color codes. However, some methods, like those described in my article on “interesting” malware , are strange enough they can be overlooked as junk or broken code. Encoding Malware. Why Is Malware Encoded? About The Author.

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