SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Because cybercrime is big business (and the fastest-growing type of crime), new attack methods are always arising. Block cybercriminals and bad bots with a web application firewall. Prepare for disaster recovery with Website Backup. Additionally, cybercriminals aren’t the only reason you need regular site backups.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, the World Economic Forum (WEF) projects that by 2021: Global cybercrime costs could total approximately $6 trillion in the US. If cybercrime were a country, it would have the third largest economy in the world. Clearly, cybercrime is big business, and it operates like one. How big is the impact of cybercrime?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The recent Hive infrastructure takedown as well as other major gangs dissolution such as Conti in 2022, is making room in the cybercrime business The Lockbit locker leaked a few months ago in the underground, is increasing its popularity and adoption among micro-criminal actors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

US government agencies warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting the U.S. CISA, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting U.S. Healthcare and Public Health sector with ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2022

The attackers, prior to the deployment of the ransomware, established RDP sessions to Hyper-V servers to modify configurations for the Veeam backup jobs and deleted the backups of the virtual machines used by the victims.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Today, any company can fall victim to cybercrime, which has become a major problem around the world. Install firewalls and anti-virus software on each computer within your company to combat cyber attacks and make sure you regularly update it. If your system is hacked, you can use backups to restore your data.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is especially true today considering the fact that cybercrime continues to be a serious threat for businesses and users. When cybercrime happens to your company website, you can lose money, credibility, and customers. Set Your Site Up for Success with a Web Application Firewall (WAF). Backup Your Site Regularly.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2021

Implement allowlisting to limit communication with remote monitoring and management (RMM) capabilities to known IP address pairs, and/or Place administrative interfaces of RMM behind a virtual private network (VPN) or a firewall on a dedicated administrative network.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As cybercrime increases, your security measures should, too. As cybercrime advances and backdoor attacks become even more prevalent, it’s vital that small businesses pay close attention to their cybersecurity efforts. Keep an off-site backup of the site that’s confirmed to be free of back doors. million versus $4.25

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

These developments have made the perimeter so porous that the old approach of simply hiding behind a firewall and keeping the rest of the world at bay is no longer feasible. In fact, the NSA and CISA have released a joint statement on the value of protective DNS solutions in fighting modern cybercrime. So where do we go from here?

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

losses from cybercrime topped $4.1 Backup and recovery should also be important components of an organization’s data protection planning. Does the company have a set of internal firewalls protecting its databases? FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks to a group in Washington, D.C. The FBI recently reported that total U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. What people will eventually come to realize, the sooner the better, is that we will need to flatten the X factor represented by cybercrime. Backup your data frequently on hard drives that aren’t connected 24/7 to the internet.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This is also true for victims of cybercrimes, too. I figured they [the school district] had firewalls and things of that nature. They followed the FBI’s advice to not pay the hackers and restored their system from backups they had kept for such an emergency. Unfortunately, there is no perfect profile for a cybercriminal.

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Vipre

JANUARY 25, 2021

Backup and Recovery Tools. In this day and age of digital communication where the most common method of recording and storing information is digital, backup and recovery tools are indispensable if you want to protect your digital data. Data loss due to system crashes or hardware failures is as frustrating as it is common. Ad Blockers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The group uses multiple attack vectors to gain access to victim networks, including RDP exploitation, SonicWall firewall vulnerabilities exploitation, and phishing attacks. Zeppelin actors request ransom payments in Bitcoin, they range from several thousand dollars to over a million dollars.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 28, 2023

On the other hand, small-sized companies are also vulnerable to increasing cybercrime and the rapidly evolving threat landscape since they need more resources to hire security professionals and need more expertise.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

As cybercrime has become well-funded and increasingly sophisticated, phishing remains one of the most effective methods used by criminals to introduce malware into businesses. Businesses must also ensure they have secure backups of their critical data. Phishing and Spear Phishing. Lack of Cybersecurity Knowledge. SQL Injection.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With vulnerabilities rooted in unsuspecting users, the task of preventing these attacks means both staff training and a robust email and network security system that includes a strong backup program so you have a recent copy of your data that you can roll back to. Offline Backups. Screenshot example. Version restores.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. It has been noted that paying a ransom demand only encourages this type of cybercrime and funds it. Backups aren’t working. Ransomware today can actually look for backup files along with user data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cybercrime costs approximately $600 billion per year, accounting for over 1% of global GDP, as per The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and 300,562,519 people were affected by publicly disclosed security breaches the previous year, as per the Identity Theft Resource Center. Operational users. Software, Hardware, Network.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

The ransomware uses this technique to stop a predefined list of services, delete shadow volumes and backups, clear the following Windows event logs, and disable the Windows firewall.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

While large and active Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) gangs like Conti, LockBit, and BlackCat always make headlines with their operations, it's important to learn about smaller ransomware families, as they can provide insight and help us understand more about cybercrime gangs as a whole. What is North Korea up to?

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While cybersecurity advice is often focused on technology like endpoint protection, firewalls and anti-virus, it’s important to remember that behind every breach is a human. To learn more about hacker personas and strategies to protect against their various attacks, check out our eBook, Hacker Personas: A Deeper Look Into Cybercrime.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Then you want to add extra protection around your most critical data, in the form of zero trust access tools and high-integrity data backups. And enterprise firewall vendors Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks unveiled secure routers last week aimed at home and small office workers. Sociopolitical Motivations.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

To apply more pressure, the attacker might also encrypt backup files to render them inaccessible. An important piece of advice is to maintain a robust series of backups for all your important files and data, usually multiple backups using several different storage methods if possible.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Use the 3-2-1 backup rule. Fully utilize firewall capabilities. Enhancing your security habits The culture of safe device use should be improved. This involves several steps, including: Regularly back up your data, saving it to external drives or cloud services to protect against data loss.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

. “Install EDR on every computer (for example, Sentinel, Cylance, CrowdStrike); set up more complex storage system; protect LSAS dump on all computers; have only 1 active accounts; install latest security updates; install firewall on all network.” But in a company run by crooks, trust doesn’t come easily.

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Spinone

JANUARY 9, 2019

Phishing scams are cybercrimes that target unsuspecting end users by electronic communication that fraudulently presents itself as a known, reputable company and persuades individuals to divulge sensitive information including credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other sensitive personal information. What are Phishing Scams?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercrime is a big business and cybercriminals are actively looking to cash in, no matter the website’s size or purpose. A web application firewall (WAF). Additionally, you might have to rebuild some or all of your website from scratch if you don’t have a clean, recent backup to restore your site. Is website security necessary?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Fxmsp took his first steps in the cybercrime scene in September 2016 when he registered on an underground forum, fuckav[.]ru. After gaining access to the target device, Fxmsp usually disables the existing antivirus software and firewall, then creates additional accounts. Finally, he infects the backups by installing backdoors.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

Certain web application firewalls (WAF) will purportedly provide adequate protections against exploitation but an upgrade from Elementor is suggested immediately if version 3.11.6 wc-ajax=1”. After updating values such as “siteurl,” SQL queries can be generated to determine the destination specified and whether autoload is enabled.

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SC Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

firewall rules, ACLs) in place to reduce the inherent risk. Are the backup and restore capabilities in place? While patching systems in OT environments requires maintenance windows, attackers are most commonly targeting obsolete or unpatched Windows systems. If it’s not possible to patch, ensure there are compensating controls (e.g.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 20, 2023

Similarly, a firewall, network access control, privileged identity management, SSL, TLS etc. It was the most significant cybercrime attack on an Irish state agency and the largest known attack against a health service computer system. I’m not advocating that privacy professionals rush out and get industry qualified to CISSP or CISA!!

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SecureBlitz

MAY 20, 2021

Want to secure your computer against cyber threats? I will show you how to do just that in this post. It will please you to know that my old Toshiba laptop was attacked before (about 6 years ago) by some memory-increasing virus. Then, I had to format my PC and lost some important files and.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

Business associations are fairly fluid in organised cybercrime groups, Partnerships and affiliations are formed and dissolved much more frequently than in nation state sponsored groups, for example. Actor Tracking. Nation state backed groups often remain operational in similar form over longer periods of time. I0N8129AZR1A ImageCreator_v4.2

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