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LockFile Ransomware uses a new intermittent encryption technique

Security Affairs

Recently emerged LockFile ransomware family LockFile leverages a novel technique called intermittent encryption to speed up encryption. LockFile ransomware gang started its operations last month, recently it was spotted targeting Microsoft Exchange servers using the recently disclosed ProxyShell vulnerabilities.

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Patch now! Microsoft Exchange attacks target ProxyShell vulnerabilities

Malwarebytes

Last Saturday the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an urgent warning that threat actors are actively exploiting three Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities— CVE-2021-34473 , CVE-2021-34523 , and CVE-2021-31207. Ransomware. This set of Exchange vulnerabilities is often grouped under the name ProxyShell.

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Ransomware Attacks on Schools: 'Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels' Stop Online Learning

SecureWorld News

Ransomware attack shuts down California online learning. In Central California, the Selma Unified School District abruptly stopped online classes during the middle of the day because of a ransomware attack which was spreading across the district's network. Ransomware attack hits North Carolina schools.

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Office 365 Backup. The Cost of Data Loss

Spinone

The large public cloud vendors today, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, all have a multitude of services in their portfolio that businesses can generally find that fit any use case they may have for infrastructure or services. These two services are email and file storage.

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Cloud Security Checklist

Spinone

The cloud has certainly matured as a platform and solution for today’s business-critical applications. Organizations have chosen to run not only production virtual machines on top of cloud infrastructure but also business services such as email and file storage. What are the items on an effective cloud security checklist?

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G Suite Admin Tasks Every Google Administrator Should Do

Spinone

However, by utilizing Google’s powerful infrastructure and software stack, businesses today are able to quickly have access to the same powerful infrastructure running Google’s services, as well as plug into Google’s business services such as Gmail , Google Team Drives , Google Calendar, and many other Google services.

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Ultimate Guide for Cloud Apps Audit for Education

Spinone

There is arguably no organization today that isn’t at least considering hosting business services in the public cloud. Cloud has revolutionized the way businesses thinking about their infrastructure. This allows administrators to be proactive instead of reactive when dealing with data leak or cybersecurity events.