Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a flash alert warning of an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks targeting government entities, educational institutions, private companies and the healthcare sector in the US and the UK. law,” the agency notes.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2024

Create a plan for patching vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems quickly; and disable or harden remote access like RDP and VPNs. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. How to avoid ransomware Block common forms of entry. Prevent intrusions. Don’t get attacked twice.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Create a plan for patching vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems quickly; and disable or harden remote access like RDP and VPNs. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. How to avoid ransomware Block common forms of entry. Prevent intrusions. Don’t get attacked twice.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It seems like not a day goes by where we don’t hear about a local government cyberattack. Indeed, from 911 call centers to public schools , cyberattacks on local governments are as common as they are devastating. Just how often do threat actors attack local governments? said daily. said daily. Table of Contents.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 20, 2022

And, while today’s commercially-created quantum machines are nowhere near powerful enough to approach quantum supremacy, absolutely nobody knows the true extent of the quantum capabilities of all of the technologically-advanced governments around the world. Clearly, there is a need to act in advance – and acting takes time.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 12, 2021

A potential plot to bomb a datacenter run by the world’s largest cloud infrastructure provider would likely not have resulted in a massive shutdown for large portions of the internet, despite claims to the contrary made by the would-be attacker, experts say. But it wouldn’t break the internet, or anything even close to it.

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Spinone

AUGUST 29, 2019

In 2020, some IT specialists consider Office 365 to be so secure that they don’t need a backup. Written for IT Admins who wish to protect their digital business assets, this guide will help you to consider the best Office 365 backup solutions. You will also find out: Does Office 365 backup your data?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Romanian government also announced extraordinary preventive measures to prevent other hospitals from being impacted by the incident. Identify affected systems and immediately isolate them from the rest of the network as well as from the Internet Keep a copy of the ransom message and any other communications from the attackers.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Continuous backup is crucial for your business. The question you might be asking is “How exactly should I backup my Office 365 for it to be continuous and safe?” In this article, we are going to compare Office 365 on-premises vs cloud backup. High backup speed. Pros: Customizability. Full autonomy.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2021

Experts found three new zero-day flaws in the Kaseya Unitrends service and warn users to avoid exposing the service to the Internet. Kaseya Unitrends is a cloud-based enterprise solution that provides affordable, low-maintenance data protection offering to complement existing client backup and recovery solutions.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

The attacks were observed as recently as February 2024, they targeted government, education, emergency services, healthcare, and other critical infrastructure sectors. Phobos is also able to identify and delete data backups. Phobos operation uses a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, it has been active since May 2019.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

But what really requires a high speed internet connection is the large amounts of data that ransomware gangs steal from affected networks to add extra leverage to their ransom demands. Some governments even allegedly sponsor ransomware gangs because they disrupt critical infrastructure of their enemies or competitors.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Tape vendors have been promoting themselves as a solution to the ransomware problem because of their ability to provide air-gapped data backup, but trying to recover terabytes of data from a tape drive can be a little like, well, running into red tape. Q: Can you air gap a disk backup system? Tape vs. Disk: The Ransomware Issues.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Rebecca Krauthamer , Co-founder and CPO, QuSecure Krauthamer As new standards for quantum-resilient cryptography come into effect, many government agencies will move toward quantum-readiness. The federal government, specifically the Defense Industrial Base (DIB,) which consists of 300,000 contractors, is struggling to keep up.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. That’s what the government believes. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

Over the past several years, government agencies and its partners have responded to a significant number of ransomware attacks, including recent attacks against Colonial Pipeline and and U.S. The guidance aims at helping government and private sector organizations in preventing such kinds of incidents. softwa re company Kaseya.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Ukrainian government’s military intelligence service announced the hack of the Russian Federal Taxation Service (FNS). Ukraine’s defense intelligence directorate (GUR) infected thousands of servers of the Russian tax service w and wiped the databases and backups. At the same time, the Russian IT company Office.ed-it.ru,

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The idea was that it’d be some massive blast that would take out the country’s power grid, or disable the entire internet, along with what they used to call e-commerce. A ransomware attack against the New Orleans city government in early 2020 cost the city over $7 million dollars. City governments and businesses.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 14, 2022

And as soon as the Internet Service provider (ISP) went public about the hack, its shares fell drastically, closing at 2.8%. NOTE- On December 12th,2022, the Finland government is the first nation to support SMEs to bolster their IT Infrastructure with a possible financial backup in voucher form. .

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Webroot

AUGUST 27, 2021

and international governments to enact, the report makes for fascinating reading for anyone interested in ransomware. While natural disasters and unplanned outages were once the focus of these contingency plans, ransomware’s current popularity is another reason to ensure backup and recovery are accounted for.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

GMA News reports that PhilHealth confirmed that lack of antivirus on its news programme, 24 Oras: In Mark Salazar's report on "24 Oras" on Monday, PhilHealth confirmed that its antivirus software had expired on April 15, but that it had not been able to renew its subscription immediately due to complicated government procurement processes.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2021

In the meantime, security researchers warn of three new zero-day vulnerabilities in the Kaseya Unitrends service and advise users not to expose the service to the Internet. Unitrends is a Kaseya company and a provider of all-in-one enterprise backup and continuity solutions. Kaseya Unitrends.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

Highlighting the risk landscape, Resecurity’s Dark Web analysis identified multiple compromised credentials belonging to network engineers that could grant threat actors access to gateways like: enterprise identity and access management (IAM), virtualization systems, various cloud providers, and backup and disaster recovery systems.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

A joint report published by ENISA and CERT-EU warns of Chinese APTs targeting businesses and government organizations in the European Union. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and CERT-EU warn of multiple China-linked threat actors targeting businesses and government organizations in the EU. Adopt a backup strategy.

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SecureList

MAY 8, 2024

Unlike random attacks, these targeted groups focus on governments, high-profile organizations, or specific individuals within an organization. Operating through both clearnet and TOR servers, Mallox targets internet-facing MS SQL and PostgreSQL servers and spreads through malicious attachments.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The landscape of ransomware has undergone rapid evolution, shifting from a relatively straightforward form of malicious software primarily affecting individual computer users, to a menacing enterprise-level threat that has inflicted substantial harm on various industries and government institutions. How are victims of Ransomware exploited?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

The unsecured storage server was discovered by security expert Greg Pollock from UpGuard, it contained 3 terabytes of data including millions of sensitive Government files and years worth of sensitive FBI investigations. The server also included email backups from 1999 to 2016, the largest and most recent reaching 16GB in size.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The government says Snatch used a customized ransomware variant notable for rebooting Microsoft Windows devices into Safe Mode — enabling the ransomware to circumvent detection by antivirus or endpoint protection — and then encrypting files when few services are running. Details after contacting on jabber: truniger@xmpp[.]jp.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The exposed data exposed a disk backup of two employees’ workstations containing secrets, private keys, passwords, and over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages. “The researchers shared their files using an Azure feature called SAS tokens, which allows you to share data from Azure Storage accounts.”

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The FBI and other global law enforcement teams worked together on this case, compromising backups that were later restored by the gang, giving authorities access to internal systems, a tactic often deployed by the gang itself. government and companies based in the U.S., Are the backups stored offline? Unfortunately for the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Flemish government under which Antwerp resides has confirmed that this is the result of a ransomware attack. Government warning. In a newsletter to Belgian government employees, staff were cautioned to be alert and careful. Limit Internet access to critical devices and systems where possible.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

One of the tasks of the USMS is to assure the safety of endangered government witnesses and their families. Create a plan for patching vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems quickly; disable or harden remote access like RDP and VPNs; use endpoint security software that can detect exploits and malware used to deliver ransomware.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 21, 2022

It is no secret that cybersecurity professionals universally recommend that people, businesses, and governments employ strong encryption as one of several methods of protecting sensitive information.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2023

Cl0p re-emphasized that it was not going to use data stolen from government organizations with a message on its dark web site: “We got a lot of emails about government data, we don't have it. We are only interested in business, everything related to the government has been deleted.” Create offsite, offline backups.

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Hot for Security

MAY 10, 2021

The attack, which occurred on Friday evening, caused the city’s IT security teams to shut down many of Tula’s internal systems over the weekend “out of an abundance of caution” while they worked around the clock at the weekend in an attempt to restore operations from backups.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

UGH admits to paying $22 million to the ALPHV (aka: BlackCat) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group to prevent patient records from being leaked to the internet. Government services: The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) provides free assessment tools. Companies should also use free tools available to them.

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