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FBI warns of ransomware attacks targeting the food and agriculture sector

Security Affairs

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. Only use secure networks and avoid using public Wi-Fi networks. Consider installing and using a VPN.

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Avoslocker ransomware gang targets US critical infrastructure

Security Affairs

. “AvosLocker is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors. Consider installing and using a VPN.

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FBI warns of ransomware threat to food and agriculture

Malwarebytes

The state of IoT is poor enough as it is, security wise. But manufacturers of agricultural equipment have spent the last few years locked in an automation arms race, and the side effects of this race are starting to show. Only use secure networks and avoid using public Wi-Fi networks. Consider installing and using a VPN.

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Ransomware Prevention, Detection, and Simulation

NetSpi Executives

Disable or bypass detective security controls. Hunt and destroy or encrypt backups hosted in local and cloud networks as well as virtual machine snapshots. In general, the fewer assets you have exposed to the internet the better, so if it doesn’t need to be out there, remove it, and bring it inside your virtual private network (VPN).

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Ransomware world in 2021: who, how and why

SecureList

Hackers who are on the lookout for publicly disclosed vulnerabilities (1-days) in internet facing software, such as VPN appliances or email gateways. Quanta Computer is a Taiwan-based manufacturer and one of Apple’s partners. Set up offline backups that intruders cannot tamper with. Access sellers.

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Evolution of JSWorm ransomware

SecureList

In addition, it deletes all system backups, shadow copies, disables the system recovery mode, and clears event logs. According to the victim list published by the threat actors, two-fifths (41%) of JSWorm attacks were targeted against companies in the Engineering and Manufacturing category. Cryptographic scheme.