Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. If these passwords have been reused for corporate accounts, this may leave organizations at risk to account takeovers.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. Multiple personal and business banking portals; -Microsoft Office365 accounts. Shipping and postage accounts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

OGUsers is a black marketplace known for selling any kind of stolen data, including Instagram, Fortinet, Minecraft, Steam, PSN, Fortinet, Skype, and Snapchat accounts. The forum users should know everything about account hijacking since this is how OGUsers became widely known in the first place.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

industries and government agencies, the statement was also published by the CISA Director Chris Krebs via his Twitter account. The statement also highlights the risks related to account compromise that could represent the entry point in a targeted network. The attacks are targeting U.S. ” continues the statement.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In recent years, we have seen diverse initiatives, including the Apple Business Manager (ABM) app launched in spring 2018 and Apple Business Essentials (ABE) in 2021, clearly showing Apple’s desire to conquer the enterprise market. All this happens while promising cloud backup, prioritized support, and secure data storage.

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Spinone

MARCH 10, 2019

The past year in 2018, ransomware remained an ever-growing threat. Top Ransomware Attacks in 2018 – What was Learned? Data is irreversibly encrypted and cannot be retried without either paying the ransom, or restoring backups of the data prior to the ransomware encryption.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2018

Many IT specialists are predicting that 2018 will be “the year of the cloud”, as companies increasingly have to deal with the backup needs of massive amounts of data, connect more and more devices to the Internet of Things , and start to appreciate the benefits that a cloud-based IT strategy can offer.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Fappening case – Federal prosecutors requested a 3-year prison sentence for a former Virginia high school teacher convicted of hacking into private digital accounts of celebrities and others. In October 2018, Brannan pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and unauthorized access to a protected computer.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing hashed passwords managed by the platform. The data breach was discovered on June 19, 2018, according to Reddit, between June 14 and 18, 2018, the attacker compromised some of the employees’ accounts with the company cloud and source code hosting providers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

By nearly all accounts, the chief bugaboo this month is CVE-2019-1458 , a vulnerability in a core Windows component (Win32k) that is present in Windows 7 through 10 and Windows Server 2008-2019. A reliable backup means you’re probably not losing your mind when the odd buggy patch causes problems booting the system.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Okumu lived through the ransomware attack on the City of Baltimore in 2018, which affected 90% of the municipality’s applications. The only saving grace was that the city had invested in both on-premise and cloud backups. The attack was first discovered in the early morning of May 19, 2018. Backup Strategy. The Attack.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

The surveillance campaign targeted heads of state, activists and journalists, including the family of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi family before and after he was killed in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by Saudi operatives. Exposing Pegasus infrastructure. The report also includes indicators of compromise for Pegasus spyware attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2019

were infected by the Ryuk ransomware on April 13, 2018. Law enforcement is investigating a ransomware attack that hit the City of Stuart on April 13, 2018. IT staff at Stuart city has restored servers, payroll, utilities, and budgeting, only city employees still don’t have access to their email accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Threat actors infected the iPhone of New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware between June 2018 to June 2021. “Notably, these infections occurred after Hubbard complained to NSO Group that he was targeted by the Saudi-linked KINGDOM Pegasus operator in June 2018.”

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Spinone

DECEMBER 2, 2018

San Francisco, CA, December 03, 2018 – Spinbackup, a leading global cloud backup and cloud cybersecurity solutions provider for SaaS applications, announced today the general availability of Office 365 Backup & Recovery to a secure cloud storage on AWS and GCP with multiple storage locations.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

.” The government experts recommend enabling multifactor authentication (MFA) on all accounts to block to prevent the abuse of stolen credentials, to enforce the Principle of Least Privilege, encrypt sensitive data at rest, segment corporate networks, implement an efficient backup policy, keep your systems up to date.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2021

The threat actors are actively exploiting the following vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS: CVE-2018-13379 ; CVE-2020-12812 ; CVE-2019-5591. Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline. . Regularly change passwords to network systems and accounts, and avoid reusing passwords for different accounts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In March 2018, security experts at InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers, or Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPFs), for 120 million Brazilian nationals. Experts believe that directory was used to store database backups. ” reads the report published by InfoArmor.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2020

What might start as an account compromise, where you think you might just lose data, can quickly become a situation where you’ve lost your whole network.” industries and government agencies, the statement was also published by the CISA Director Chris Krebs via his Twitter account. The attacks were targeting U.S.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

With the launch of Office 365 backup and recovery solutions with multiple cloud storage options based on the world’s most trusted cloud storage providers such as AWS and GCP, Spinbackup furthers its mission to empowering enterprise and SMB organizations with intelligent data loss and leak protection in the cloud.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

As we look at the past year of 2018, it is all too easy to see that data breach or leak of sensitive information is not a problem that is going away anytime soon. Let’s take a look at the top Cloud Data Breaches in 2018 and see how they were carried out, what data was leaked, and the weakness that was exposed by the breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

Back in 2018, almost two-thirds of the small businesses suffered from cyber security attacks. . Backup data on Cloud . Even if you take all the protective measures, you don’t want to be left without any backup or options in case of a cyber attack. In fact, Phishing alone accounts for 90% of small business cyber attacks.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 14, 2018

Look for social media accounts that accept private communications. The data included passwords stored in plain text and a quick password reset check on a Mailinator account delivers the precise password in the breach to the public mailbox. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 12, 2018. Look for a contact us form.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Several months ago, Spinbackup, along with other backup providers, emphatically suggested that backup is the only possible solution to protect your company from enormous data loss caused by ransomware. In fact, files at Google Drive and Google Backup & Sync applications are also stored on your computer.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is the reality for many website owners, and now more than ever, they need to be on alert for cyberattacks in 2018. In Q2 2017, backdoors accounted for 23 percent of malware files. These attacks account for 8 percent of malware files. How are cybercriminals taking advantage of website visitors?

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Malware Engineering Phishing Accountability 52

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2023

LastPass’ default master password settings and best practices include the following: Since 2018, a twelve-character minimum for master passwords is required. You can check the current number of PBKDF2 iterations for your LastPass account here. It is recommended that you never reuse your master password on other websites.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Review domain controllers, servers, workstations, and active directories for new or unrecognized user accounts. BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A preliminary investigation identified data related to billing statements and fee notices to customers from 2018, including names, address, loan numbers, balance information and billing information such as charges assessed, owed or paid.

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Ransomware Artificial Intelligence Malware Media 112

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They targeted specific profiles such as system administrators who know how to map corporate networks, locate backups and identify users within a system, which are critical steps in ransomware attacks. Law enforcement arrested three high-ranking members of FIN7 in August 2018, so it’s not the first time the group has used that trick.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

DDoS attacks are growing in both severity and frequency with 83% of organizations being attacked through this method since 2018. Prepare for disaster recovery with Website Backup. Additionally, cybercriminals aren’t the only reason you need regular site backups.

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Spinone

JANUARY 30, 2019

Let’s take a look at the topic – Office 365 Backup Why Important? In looking back at 2018 by way of cybersecurity events so far, there have already been an alarming number of high-profile data breaches and data exposed by attackers looking to capitalize on ineffective data security and data protection.

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Spinone

JULY 29, 2019

In the past 2018, over 160 million business users chose Microsoft Office software suite to cover their work needs. It is inbuilt in G Suite, so it is free if you have a paid account. First, we assume by default that, by this point, you have already created destination G Suite account(s). Log in to your Office account.

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Backups Accountability Mobile Cloud Migration 72

Cisco Security

JULY 11, 2022

Below you can review their findings from a study done between 2018 – 2022: Map: Comparitech Get the data Created with Datawrapper. Downtime varied from minimal disruption (thanks to frequent data backups) to months upon months of recovery time . Sign up for a 30 day free trial and test drive a demo account. Key findings .

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Ransomware Education Cyber Insurance Insurance 145

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With vulnerabilities rooted in unsuspecting users, the task of preventing these attacks means both staff training and a robust email and network security system that includes a strong backup program so you have a recent copy of your data that you can roll back to. Offline Backups. Screenshot example. Ransomware facts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Fxmsp included one of his Jabber accounts, in his contact information on the forum which helped Group-IB researchers to establish his presumed identity. In early 2017, he created accounts on several other Russian-speaking forums, including on the infamous exploit[.]in, Finally, he infects the backups by installing backdoors.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. Attacks in 2018 Victim Organization January City of Farmington, New Mexico February Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) March City of Atlanta, Georgia July LabCorp, U.S.

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