Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Authorities dismantled the 8Base ransomware gang, shutting down its dark web data leak and negotiation sites. An international law enforcement operation, codenamed Operation Phobos Aetor, dismantled the 8Base ransomware gang. The ransomware component is then decrypted and loaded into the SmokeLoader process memory.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

8Base ransomware operators were observed using a variant of the Phobos ransomware in a recent wave of attacks. Cisco Talos researchers observed 8Base ransomware operators using a variant of the Phobos ransomware in recent attacks. The ransomware component is then decrypted and loaded into the SmokeLoader process’ memory.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 31, 2020

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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Spinone

JANUARY 30, 2019

Microsoft’s Office 365 public cloud solution has become a major player in the public cloud space with many businesses either migrating to Office 365 from on-premises environments or other public cloud vendors. Let’s take a look at the topic – Office 365 Backup Why Important?

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Spinone

JANUARY 30, 2019

E-mail and file storage are basic necessities when it comes to businesses services. Maintaining these systems on-premises can be expensive, time consuming, require a great deal of support, and can encounter scalability issues depending on business growth. Not Backing up SaaS Data Backups are part of cloud security?

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Spinone

DECEMBER 28, 2018

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. This could not be further from the truth.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 19, 2018

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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