Krebs on Security

JANUARY 2, 2019

29, 2018, the attackers broke in through a compromised login account on Christmas Eve and quickly began infecting servers with the Ryuk ransomware strain. 2, 2018 shows the company is still struggling to restore services more than a week after the attack began. A status update shared by Data Resolution with affected customers on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 13, 2021

Allan Liska , senior security architect at Recorded Future , said while it is concerning that so many vulnerabilities around the same component were released simultaneously, two previous vulnerabilities in RPC — CVE-2019-1409 and CVE-2018-8514 — were not widely exploited.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

Instead, they only found a suspicious video file sent to Bezos on May 1, 2018 that "appears to be an Arabic language promotional film about telecommunications." Good state-sponsored malware should never show up in a backup," said Sarah Edwards, an author and teacher of mobile forensics for the SANS Institute.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

A 2018 GAO report expressed concern regarding the lack of secure and patchable U.S. In 2018, a 29-country NATO exercise, Trident Juncture , that included cyberweapons was disrupted by Russian GPS jamming. And militaries need to have well-developed backup plans, for when systems are subverted. This is not speculative.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The threat actors attempted to exploit multiple vulnerabilities in DVRs, including CVE-2017-7921, CVE-2018-9995 , CVE-2020-25078, CVE-2021-33044 , and CVE-2021-36260. In March 2024, threat actors behind this campaign started targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling “catastrophic destruction” at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company’s primary and backup data in the United States. Every file server is lost, every backup server is lost. Founded in 2001 and based in Milwaukee, Wisc.,

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

On Christmas Eve 2018, cloud data hosting firm Dataresolution.net was hit with the Ryuk strain of ransomware. 2, 2019, this blog reported that the company — which had chosen not to pay the ransom and instead restore everything from backups — was still struggling to bring its systems back online.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that the market volume of illegal online sales of alcohol in Russia exceeded 30 million USD in 2018, i.e. almost 5.8 Criminals create entire networks from the “mirror–websites” of their online alcohol stores; if one site is blocked, they swiftly migrate to a backup resource. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. “Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. .

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 21, 2020

Plus, it does the whole bendy flippy "yoga" thing so it can be used in tablet mode too (more on that later): Flush with good machines myself (I run a ThinkPad P1 as my primary machine and the P50 I wrote about years ago as a backup), when the C940 arrived the other day I thought it was time to do an updated post.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. The GandCrab RaaS that appeared in early 2018 was one of the last high-profile threats targeting individuals on a large scale. It vanished from the radar in June 2018, when the ransomware plague took another sharp turn. Targeting enterprises Late 2018 – present day. Time will tell.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

In this process authorities seized numerous backup hard drives [containing] a large portion of Orcus Technologies business, and practices,” Rezvesz wrote. ” “I am not your A-typical computer geek, Brian,” he wrote in a 2018 email. “I In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar.

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Companies hit by the Ryuk ransomware all too often are compromised for months or even years before the intruders get around to mapping out the target’s internal networks and compromising key resources and data backup systems.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

SafetyDetectives reports the average cost of a ransomware-caused downtime incident has risen from $46,800 in 2018, to $141,000 in 2019, to $283,800 in 2020. My rough scribble of how ransomware sophistication surpassed our defensive capabilities somewhere around 2018. Google Trends Data for the term Cyber Peal Harbor.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The vulnerabilities are traked as CVE-2018-9074 , CVE-2018-9075 , CVE-2018-9076 , CVE-2018-9077 , CVE-2018-9078 , CVE-2018-9079 , CVE-2018-9080 , CVE-2018-9081 and CVE-2018-9082. 20 and publicly disclosed the vulnerabilities on September 30.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

According to the Symantec experts, the group behind the SamSam ransomware has continued to launch attacks against organizations during 2018. Of the 67 organizations targeted during 2018, 56 were located in the U.S. Experts close the post recommending the importance of backup of important data for combating ransomware infections.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

Since 2018, up to 86% of SMBs have reported being victims of ransomware each year. A strong backup solution is vital. Full-server backups or asking end users to manage their own backups aren’t the most feasible options. Myth #3: I already have a backup, so I’m safe.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For example, it is unclear how much data would have been unrecoverable if a decryption key had not become available as the HSE’s backup infrastructure was only periodically backed up to offline tape. During my 2018 talk, I tried to emphasize the primary importance of being able to respond quickly to intrusions.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Google Backup and Sync, along with Google Drive File Stream are the newest G Suite features that simplify the process of synchronizing files from computer to Google cloud. How Google Team Drives Can Be Hit by Ransomware While Google Backup and Sync is an application for personal usage, it works pretty similar to Google Drive app.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

” Experts recommend to have secure working backup procedures, in case of attack, victims could simply recover data from a backup. 2018 – KillDisk was involved in a wave of SWIFT attacks against banks worldwide. 2018 – KillDisk was involved in a wave of SWIFT attacks against banks worldwide.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

It appears someone was able to breach the server through a custom plugin in the forum software and get access to an old backup dating December 26, 2018.”. In May 2019, the administrator of the forum disclosed a first data breach: “More unfortunate news,” the administrator, who goes by Ace, wrote. “It

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Kali Linux

JULY 9, 2018

Let’s prepare the environment: ls -al /mnt/{chroot,backup,encrypted} # Please make sure there is nothing here first before you move on, otherwise you will have a bad day. rm -rf /mnt/{chroot,backup,encrypted} mkdir -p /mnt/{chroot,backup,encrypted} Now insert the SD card and validate the device ID.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

A reliable backup means you’re probably not losing your mind when the odd buggy patch causes problems booting the system. So do yourself a favor and backup your files before installing any patches. Photoshop and ColdFusion 2018 also received security updates today. Links to advisories here.

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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. Dyess confirmed that the impact was limited thanks to the availability of city’s computer backup system. “If But with those backups in place, why would we negotiate?”.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

.” Schafer said another mitigating factor was that VCPI had contracted with a third-party roughly six months prior to the attack to establish off-site data backups that were not directly connected to the company’s infrastructure. “We were doing the right things, just not fast enough. Department of Homeland Security.

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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

MARCH 16, 2021

Surprisingly, despite the fact that I publicly disclosed this in 2018 , nothing has been done to stop this relatively unsophisticated attack.” So remove the phone number as a backup for your email account, and ensure a more robust second factor is selected for all available account recovery options.

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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

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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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

data on ransomware attacks from 2018-2021, ransomware attacks by industry, suggestions for data backup and replication, information on 3-2-1 and 3-3-2 backup strategies, data protection preferences, and more. Other valuable information in the report includes the average cost of data breaches by industry in the 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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