CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Encryption and data backup. Data encryption is a protection strategy that renders data useless even when an intruder accesses it. Encrypting all your company’s sensitive data and private information ensures that it’s protected from data breaches. Secure your hardware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The number of sensors and smart devices connected to the internet is exponentially rising, which are the 5 Major Vulnerabilities for IoT devices. Unfortunately, at that moment, there were over 300,000 of those cameras connected to the internet. Nowadays, malware is an indispensable part of the internet (even if we do not like it).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Data backup. The first is high-integrity, air-gapped data backups , which is the quickest and cheapest way to recover from an attack. There are also free ransomware decryption resources on the internet to help you. The focus is on recovering deleted and encrypted files as quickly as possible. Ransomware recovery services.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 13, 2023

Some of these organizations are considered vital infrastructure such as local governments, financial companies, healthcare organizations, energy firms, and technology manufacturers. Recent scans showed that around 1,000 administrative consoles are publicly exposed to the internet. Stop malicious encryption. Detect intrusions.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2023

Grixba checks for antivirus programs, EDR suites, backup tools to help them plan the next steps of the attack. VSS Copying Tool, meanwhile, tiptoes around the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to steal files from system snapshots and backup copies. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 26, 2023

Airline customer data and proprietary information of original equipment manufacturers (OEM)—companies that provide parts for another company's finished product—are the primary targets of attackers in this subgroup. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Detect intrusions.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Small farms, large producers, processors and manufacturers, and markets and restaurants are particularly exposed to ransomware attacks. The good news is in the latter attack the victims restored its backups. The most clamorous attack against the sector was orchestrated by the REvil gang against JBS Foods disrupting its operations.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

If you wake up one morning and find that all of your files are encrypted along with a ransom note demanding a Bitcoin payment — you just may have been hit with QNAPCrypt. QNAPCrypt exploits a vulnerability in QNAP NAS running HBS 3 (Hybrid Backup Sync) to allow remote attackers to log in to a device. How it works. Cheers extension.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2023

Secure Boot is an option in UEFI that allows you to make sure that your PC boots using only software that is trusted by the PC manufacturer. Create a plan for patching vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems quickly; and disable or harden remote access like RDP and VPNs. Stop malicious encryption. Prevent intrusions.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 23, 2021

This is the act of exfiltrating sensitive data from the victim network before the encryption stage of the attack[1]. A manufacturer of rubber parts in Korea. . A luxury gas fireplace manufacturer in New Zealand . A manufacturer of mechanical-electrical alternators in Italy . An insurance company in Puerto Rico. .

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Double-extortion attacks, which include data exfiltration in addition to encryption, are rising even faster at 117% year-over-year. Some industries saw particularly high growth of double-extortion attacks, including healthcare (643%), food service (460%), mining (229%), education (225%), media (200%), and manufacturing (190%).

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Synology also advises users to enable Snapshot to keep their NAS safe from encryption-based ransomware. This performs a regular, off-site backup. The company’s advice is also valid for any other Internet-facing NAS devices. More Synology NAS-specific security advice can be found on its site. Stay safe, everyone!

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 11, 2023

They primarily attack education, government, manufacturing, and technology and managed service provider sectors; however, there has been recent attacks against the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. The HHS notes that the ransomware is relatively new.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As the sophistication of the modern supply chain advances, and as the sector becomes more reliant on smart technologies and Internet of Things (IoT) processes, the attack surface expands. Ransomware may impact businesses across the sector, from small farms to large producers, processors and manufacturers, and markets and restaurants.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2022

Such attacks typically entail business, manufacturing, ecologic, or economic disciplines that drop beyond the standard bounds of a fraud. Internet scammers are cunning criminals. Verify that there are no software injection, encryption, and authentication attacks. Encryption treats. Injection frauds. Authentication frauds.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The ransomware targets poorly protected or vulnerable NAS servers manufactured by Taiwan-based QNAP Systems, attackers exploits known vulnerabilities or carry out brute-force attacks. encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files. encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files. The malicious code appends.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Individuals. Businesses.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 17, 2023

Editor-in-chief Uwe Ralf Heer reported that a well-known cybercriminal group encrypted its systems and left ransom demands, but did not specify further. The attackers leaked files including backup archives, financial documents, research papers, and student spreadsheets. Stop malicious encryption. Detect intrusions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2021

According to open-source reporting, since August 2020, DarkSide actors have been targeting multiple large, high-revenue organizations, resulting in the encryption and theft of sensitive data. Implement regular data backup procedures . 3 ],[ 4 ]” reads the joint alert. other than VPN gateways, mail ports, web ports).

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Hacker Combat

AUGUST 3, 2020

While it’s par for the course in the world of the Internet, there are ways to make sure that less info is gathered to use against you. Go to Settings, Applications, and then Internet Explorer. This encrypts your passwords behind a master one instead of all being stored on your phone. Go to Settings and Backup &Reset.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Major research efforts on how to detect these IEDs and detonate them harmlessly, or to infiltrate and disrupt bomb manufacturing, were referred by the idiom “Left of Boom.” Backup all critical data at least daily, and preferably more often, to offline storage and protected with MFA and immutable encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With the rise in malware and ransomware and a growing reliance on the internet, antivirus solutions are critical for protecting your data and applications. Encryption. Your internet service provider may also offer free security software that may be quite adequate, but if you want the best, you have our recommendations.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

An attacker can easily scan the internet for websites that haven’t patched a vulnerability for which the attacker has an exploit. In addition to encrypting data and holding it hostage, ransomware attackers also upload valuable data to other systems on the internet. Unpatched exploits. Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS).

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD]. I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2023

From our post: Akira is a fresh ransomware hitting enterprises globally since March 2023, having already published in April the data of nine companies across different sectors like education, finance, and manufacturing. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups. Detect intrusions.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Networks connect devices to each other so that users can access assets such as applications, data, or even other networks such as the internet. Some applications, cloud infrastructure, networking equipment, or Internet of Things (IoT) devices may require more sophisticated ITAM or additional tools to detect them.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2023

Predominantly targeting small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), 8Base has attacked mainly companies within the Professional/Scientific/Technical sector, comprising 36% of known attacks , followed by Manufacturing at 17%. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are the smart consumer and business systems powering the homes, factories, and enterprise processes of tomorrow. Broadcom also offers a location hub microcontroller and System-on-a-Chip (SoC) systems for embedded IoT security for organizations handling product manufacturing.

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SecureList

MAY 25, 2021

Several versions were released as part of each “rebranded” variant that altered different aspects of the code, renamed file extensions, cryptographic schemes and encryption keys. In addition, it deletes all system backups, shadow copies, disables the system recovery mode, and clears event logs. Encryption flaws.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In fact, it’s widely believed that today threat actors are even saving encrypted content so they can break it later using quantum computers. Rather, over time the difficulty and time required to break encrypted files and communications will continue to decrease, and the risk of using pre-quantum algorithms will keep increasing.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Introduction This guide deals with threat modelling and early stages of development so that security issues and controls are identified before committing to manufacturing. Use AES encryption. The CoP includes the following recommendations for manufacturers: No default passwords. Encrypt in transit. Frameworks 2.1.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Whether it is synchronized files from on-premises to cloud environments or the risk of encryption of cloud email, ransomware is a real threat to your data. As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. RobinHood is not known to leak data to the Internet if no payment is made.

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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. If threat actors can steal or encrypt highly sensitive information, their victims may be more willing to pay a higher ransom. Further reading: Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Most device or software manufacturers place backdoors in their products intentionally and for a good reason. with no internet. Targeting victims over the phone, vishing is the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), technical jargon, and ID spoofing to trick a caller into revealing sensitive information. Backdoors.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

By the end of 2022, the overwhelming majority of service providers, equipment manufacturers, and businesses throughout the world will have deployed Wi-Fi 6/6E, or plan to do so, according to the Wireless Broadband Alliance. ports for faster streaming, data backup, and painless access to stored files. Even if you have to pay $99.99

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

To ensure that their ability to restore encrypted files would never be questioned, they cultivated an online presence, wrote press releases and generally made sure their name would be known to all potential victims. They interact with each other through internet handles, paying for services with cryptocurrency. Access sellers.

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