Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

Perhaps records after that date have all made the leap to digital status only, with no backups available. Maybe there are backups, but those have been encrypted by ransomware too. ” At the very least, 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) is needed here. Store your backups externally away from the main network.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

” The Remote Access Trojan (RAT) has been active since July 2022. . “Private sector partners are encouraged to implement the recommendations listed in the Mitigation column of the table below to reduce the likelihood and impact of these attack campaigns.” The feds urge to report any signs of compromise to the FBI or IC3.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

The pre-release announcement for Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2022 states that Oracle will fix 483 new flaws. This pre-release announcement for Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2022 confirms that Oracle security updates will address 483 new security patches. The highest CVSS v3.1 Base Score (10.0) Base Score of 9.9.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

Google announced that its Authenticator app for Android and iOS now supports Google Account synchronization. Google announced that its Google Authenticator app for both iOS and Android now supports Google Account synchronization that allows to safely backup users one-time codes to their Google Account.

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Fox IT

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

During a recent incident response case, we found traces of an adversary leveraging ConnectWise R1Soft Server Backup Manager software (hereinafter: R1Soft server software). The adversary used it as an initial point of access and as a platform to control downstream systems connected via the R1Soft Backup Agent.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

GoTo is notifying customers that its development environment was breached in November 2022, attackers stole customers’ backups and encryption key. The security breach was disclosed in November 2022, but at the time the company was not able to determine the impact on its customers’ data.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. We talked about NAS devices and ransomware in the weekly review 37/2022.”

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Hacker Combat

APRIL 22, 2022

Below are Seven ransomware protection tips to help you secure data in 2022; #1 Do not open suspicious attachments. 2 Backup your data. 3 Enable multi-factor authentication. Multifactor authentication is a verification method that requires a user to go through two or more steps to access sensitive information.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

On September 6, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team was informed of a vulnerability being actively exploited in the BackupBuddy WordPress plugin. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-31474 (CVSS score: 7.5), can be exploited by an unauthenticated user to download arbitrary files from the affected site. on September 2, 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

About the only consensus on cybersecurity in 2022 is that things will get uglier, but in what ways? Here are some of the more interesting predictions for 2022 we’ve seen from cybersecurity researchers. Here are some of the more interesting predictions for 2022 we’ve seen from cybersecurity researchers.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q2 2022. We discovered a highly active campaign, starting in March 2022, targeting stock and cryptocurrency investors in South Korea. They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of. Final thoughts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) warns of increased Akira ransomware attacks targeting NAS and tape backup devices of organizations in the country. Threat actors are wiping NAS and backup devices. We talked about NAS devices and ransomware in the weekly review 37/2022.”

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2022

Automated program governance Single sign-on (SSO) and two-factor authentication Impact analysis reports Risk assessments Customizable reports and dashboards Live reporting. Also, consider ransomware-proof backup services for added security. You need to be able to adapt quickly, meaning you should already have backups in place.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

This article looks at 15 of the best network monitoring tools and what to consider when evaluating monitoring solutions in 2022. Best Networking Monitoring Tools for 2022. Read more : Best SIEM Tools of 2022. Also read: Top Cybersecurity Startups to Watch in 2022. Also read: Top MDR Services and Solutions for 2022.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

Black Basta ransomware affiliates have breached over 500 organizations between April 2022 and May 2024, FBI and CISA reported. Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has been active since April 2022, it impacted several businesses and critical infrastructure entities across North America, Europe, and Australia.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

April 2022 was most notable for the emergence of three new ransomware-as-a-service ( RaaS ) groups— Onyx , Mindware , and Black Basta —as well as the unwelcome return of REvil , one of the world’s most notorious and dangerous ransomware operations. Ransomware attacks in April 2022. Known ransomware attacks in April 2022 by country.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2022

In this March 2022 ransomware review, we go over some of the most successful ransomware incidents based on both open source and dark web intelligence. Implement regular backups of all data to be stored as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Use double authentication when logging into accounts or services. Source: IC3.gov.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2022

In this February 2022 ransomware review, we go over some the most successful ransomware incidents based on both open source and dark web intelligence. Observed since: February 2022 Ransomware note: read_me.html Ransomware extension: <original file name> [vote2024forjb@protonmail[.]com].encryptedJB SFile (Escal). Mitigations.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Least privilege access is at its core, requiring every single connection within a network to be authenticated and authorized before they are granted access to a system. It doesn’t have break glass capabilities and advises file copy backups for DR scenarios. This relies on governance policies for authorization.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

WordPress has forced the update of the UpdraftPlus plugin around three million sites to address a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0633 (CVSS v3.1 that can allow website subscribers to download the latest database backups, which could potentially contain sensitive data. score of 8.5) and Premium before 2.22.3

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Ransomware attacks increased by yet another 80% between February 2021 and March 2022, based on an analysis of ransomware payloads seen across the Zscaler cloud. Prepare for the worst with cyber insurance, a data backup plan, and a response plan as part of your overall business continuity and disaster recovery program. About ThreatLabz.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me , an online identity verification service that requires applicants to submit copies of bills and identity documents, as well as a live video feed of their faces via a mobile device. After confirmation, ID.me

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In 2022, Boeing recorded $66.61 billion in sales, the aerospace giant has 156,000 (2022). Bleeping Computer analyzed the leaked data and reported that most of the published data are backups for various systems. The LockBit ransomware group published data allegedly stolen from the aerospace giant Boeing in a recent attack.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Cyberattack Statistics. Mobile attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-36537 (CVSS score: 7.5), in the ZK Java Web open-source framework to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. This flaw impacts multiple products, including but not limited to ConnectWise R1Soft Server Backup Manager.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

. “Our investigation has revealed that the threat actor pivoted from the first incident, which ended on August 12, 2022, but was actively engaged in a new series of reconnaissance, enumeration, and exfiltration activities aligned to the cloud storage environment spanning from August 12, 2022 to October 26, 2022.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to your readership and support, I was able to spend more time in 2022 on some deep, meaty investigative stories — the really satisfying kind with the potential to affect positive change. Some of that work is highlighted in the 2022 Year in Review review below. million users. A report commissioned by Sen.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2022

The advisory contains indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with ransomware variants identified through FBI investigations as recently as June 21, 2022. Maintain offline backups of data, and regularly maintain backup and restoration. Authentication.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A hardware security key uses public-key encryption to authenticate a user, and is much harder to defeat than other forms of authentication, such as passwords, or codes sent by SMS or generated by apps. For those users that choose to enable Advanced Data Protection, this will rise to 23, including iCloud Backup, Notes, and Photos.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

“The security assessment was provided in September 2022 to the Brocade support through Dell but it was rejected by Brocade because it didn’t address the latest version of SANnav.” The following vulnerabilities, discovered by the security researcher Pierre Barre , impact all versions up to 2.3.0 ” wrote Barre.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2021

To those who go for more premium plans, a site backup plan of up to 200GB keeps the data continuity intact at the time of disasters. If possible, turn on 2-factor authentication for important online services. About World Password Day- Every year, the first Thursday in May is being promoted as the World Password Day.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 12, 2022

Lincoln said the attack “thwarted admissions activities and hindered access to all institutional data, creating an unclear picture of Fall 2022 enrollment projections” ” All systems required for recruitment, retention, and fundraising efforts were inoperable. Require the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

infosec #cybersecurity #threatintel #cyber #NFL pic.twitter.com/tl7OWM2Aqf — CyberKnow (@Cyberknow20) February 12, 2022. Version two of BlackByte does not have this flaw, so the 49ers will likely have to rely on backups to recover its affected systems. Smart marketing tbh. A timely FBI advisory.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2022

Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) devices provide emergency backup power for mission-critical systems. CVE-2022-22805 – TLS buffer overflow: A memory corruption bug in packet reassembly (RCE). CVE-2022-0715 – Unsigned firmware upgrade that can be updated over the network (RCE). .” ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2022

Enforce MFA on MSP accounts that access the customer environment and monitor for unexplained failed authentication. Enforce multifactor authentication (MFA). Backup systems and data. Manage account authentication and authorization. Enable/improve monitoring and logging processes. Apply the principle of least privilege.

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