SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

And this is especially dangerous to small businesses in the U.S. If this malware is able to steal the login and password for your business bank account, it will very quickly empty that account. And small business accounts are not protected by zero liability. This is ransomware.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 26, 2023

An expanding and more complex business risk environment More than ever, small businesses need support to overcome the ripple effects of geopolitical tensions, climate crisis, and financial recession. However, small businesses ability to respond to threats due to constrained resources is very different.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Even though encryption should be taken seriously by businesses of all sizes, only a small fraction of the corporate sector puts their back on it. Radicati Group reports that the total number of emails that businesses and consumers send and receive every day is expected to grow to a whopping 347 billion by 2023.

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Hot for Security

MAY 21, 2021

has shut down operations after extorting regular users and small businesses of almost 9 Bitcoin, the equivalent of around $365,000, in a matter of weeks. In typical ransomware fashion, the attackers gave victims a Readme.txt file containing instructions on how to recover their encrypted files – pay 0.1

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com com , segate[.]org

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

Please vote for Security Affairs ( [link] ) as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections where is reported Securityaffairs or my name Pierluigi Paganini Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Nowadays, small businesses are more susceptible to spear phishing since they lack the IT security infrastructure in larger organizations. Because the address comes across as an internal team member, people trust them, ultimately exposing themselves to cybercrime. Encrypt all sensitive information and documentation.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2023

This has projected costs associated with cybercrimes to hit the tens of trillions by 2025, highlighting the vital need for web hosts to implement staunch security. More than ever before, there is a vital need for businesses to fortify their security to protect data online. Gainesville, Fla.,

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

Cybercrime has skyrocketed in the last few years, and the websites of small and medium-sized companies have been the most frequent target of web attacks. SSL Certificates for data encryption The S at the end of an HTTP connection indicates a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 22, 2023

If you are already familiar with the evolving cyber threat landscape in your home country, you’ll know that humans are often the most exploited attack vector for cybercrime, and how frequently small businesses are breached. So, how exactly are these challenges exacerbated when moving your operations beyond borders?

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It’s a good idea to prepare for cybercrime, and whenever possible avoid becoming a victim of it. None of this is to suggest that falling prey to holiday cybercrime is unavoidable or that the potential damage can’t be mitigated, but it is important to educate yourself, friends and family to safeguard the holiday season.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “ Evil Corp ” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers. According to the U.S.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

To make a business case for web security, one must define the target, detail the impact of a hack, outline the mitigation cost and examine any additional benefits of proactive website security. This article will examine those areas to help assist in making a business case for cybersecurity. Define the Target. Impact of a Hack.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

According to a report from McAfee Enterprise and FireEye titled, "Cybercrime in a Pandemic World: The Impact of COVID-19," 81% of global organizations have experienced increased cyberthreats, and 79% experienced downtime from an attack during a peak season. Cybersecurity attacks are on the rise, especially since the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 11, 2021

As a freelancer in any industry, you are likely more susceptible to hackers and cybercrime than many other professions. On top of that, you should install a virtual private network (VPN), which will disguise your location and encrypt all of your precious information. Article by Beau Peters.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

By around 3:15 pm, Huntress said in their posts it was aware of 200 businesses being encrypted over eight MSPs. Huntress said several MSPs it worked with had all customers’ data encrypted. The Huntress Labs official account has been live-blogging its experience with the attacks on a Reddit thread.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

3 Small businesses are at risk. As bad actors opt for a more agile and efficient approach, they’re turning their attention to “easy” targets: small businesses. This can be done using encryption. Now they can hire a team to do it for them.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 5, 2022

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– One Source , a leading provider of managed information technology services, today announced key cybersecurity trends the company expects to have a major impact on North Carolina businesses in 2022.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A compounding problem of this complexity is that the responsibility of managing these risks often falls to those with the least capabilities: individuals, small businesses, and local governments. The path to better cybersecurity. RESOURCE] Listen to the recent SecureWorld podcast episode featuring U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The internet data transmitted on these networks is not encrypted. Since this data is not encrypted, the hackers do not have to do much to use that data for their evil purposes. It is because the tunnel is also encrypted and the encrypted data goes through this tunnel.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Ransomware Will Cost Businesses More. Ransomware is a term used to describe viruses that encrypt all the files on a user’s computer and hold them hostage for a fee. Ransomware costs small business an estimated $75 billion each year. And the ransoms continue to get higher and higher.

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SecureList

MAY 8, 2024

From high-profile breaches in healthcare and industrial sectors – compromising huge volumes of sensitive data or halting production entirely – to attacks on small businesses that have become relatively easy targets, ransomware actors are expanding their sphere of influence.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In Q3 2017, SiteLock discovered alarming cybercrime trends that will likely affect websites for months to come. Cybercriminals can encrypt their backdoor files with a decoding key that only they possess, meaning, no one else has access to their malicious file. Website downtime can cost small businesses as much as $427 per minute.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

5 Cyber Security Best Practices to Protect Your Business Data. Today, any company can fall victim to cybercrime, which has become a major problem around the world. That’s why large, medium-sized, and small businesses need to become more proactive in their approach to cyber security. Source [link].

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The threat actor abused Bitly shortener and an ad hoc BlogSpot account to protect the malicious code, lastly stored in an encrypted zip archive hosted on Mega.nz. The shared secret is used to encrypt the GZipped memory stream using a xor-based algorithm in a compress-then-encrypt fashion.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 12, 2021

Such attacks also add to budgetary challenges for already under-resourced districts: when Mississippi's Yazoo County School District paid $300,000 as a ransom to recover files encrypted during a ransomware attack, the cost equaled roughly 1.5% of the district's annual budget. The targeting of schools is not limited to the United States.

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Veracode Security

MAY 21, 2021

And CIS and McAfee reported that cybercrime cost 1 percent of global GDP in 2018. How many small businesses, schools, hospitals, or government agencies have an extra $13 million to spend on an unexpected breach? In 2019, Accenture reported an average company spends $13 million per breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We’ve seen a steep rise in cybercrime in 2021 that we can expect to continue into the new year, and an effective defense begins with influential leaders. This tidal wave of cybercrime will not die down any time soon. ” Gorka Sadowski, chief strategy officer, Exabeam. “If

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

But according to denizens of several Russian-language cybercrime forums that have been following his case in the Israeli news media, Burkov was by all accounts an elite cybercrook who primarily operated under the hacker alias “ K0pa.” A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011.

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