Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers. For the local data backup server, the attacker used the open-source disk encryption tool VeraCrypt.

Social Engineering 122

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Sopra Steria - One of the Largest Reported Ransoms Europe's major IT services firm Sopra Steria was breached in October 2020 by the Ryuk gang, with extensive backups preventing major disruption. Keep backups completely isolated and air-gapped offline to prevent malware from infecting those too. Use immutable object storage for backups.

Ransomware 52

Ransomware Backups Insurance Cyber Insurance 52

Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

It is vital for any enterprise landscape to ensure viable, open, and reliable corporate communications – fostering innovation and economic prosperity, with respect to safeguarding against disruption and serious cyber risk perception. What are the benefits of cyber security awareness trainings?

Security Awareness 40

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers. For the local data backup server, the attacker used the open-source disk encryption tool VeraCrypt.

Social Engineering 52

Social Engineering Engineering Accountability Backups 52

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With many companies improving their incident response and ability to restore services through the use of backups, it is possible that the intentional breach of data is actually the more impactful side of a double extortion attack; according to research from 2022, the average cost of a data breach was USD 4.35

Cyber threats 52

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