Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2022

While anyone can fall victim to these threat actors, the FBI noted that this malware has been used to target a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure organizations, including defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, technology companies, and especially organizations in the healthcare and medical industries.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 18, 2020

CISA has put together a chart which represents the ten most common malware strains that have affected state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) educational institutions this year, Shlayer and ZeuS being the top two. Aside from ransomware, malware has also been a problem for K-12 schools. Implement network segmentation.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The ransomware was involved in attacks aimed at technology and healthcare, defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Regularly update router firmware to patch vulnerabilities and close potential avenues of attack. Regularly Back Up Your Data Regular encrypted backups can help keep important data safe from data loss or ransomware. Scheduled Backups: Have a regular, fixed schedule for backing up your data.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

To mitigate this security challenge, businesses must educate their employees on the basics of cybersecurity and include cybersecurity policies in the onboarding process of every new employee. Businesses must also ensure they have secure backups of their critical data. Security awareness should be ongoing and evolving. SQL Injection.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Services—a catch-all term encompassing service-providing sectors such as transportation, travel, finance, health, education, information, government, and a myriad of other industries—was targeted the most by cybercriminals. In education, several colleges and K–12 districts were crippled by ransomware. Noteworthy May attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Patch management: Keeping software and firmware up to date to close security gaps. Firmware Manipulation Attackers can manipulate firmware in ICS components, such as controllers and sensors, by inserting malicious code to compromise operations.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Over the last decade, K–12 schools have made great strides in employing technologies that facilitate learning—especially since the onset of pandemic-induced distance education. By January 2023, education had claimed over 80 percent of all global malware incidents —a staggering lead that has held since 2020.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Use anti-malware software , and keep all operating systems, software, and firmware up to date. And educate and train your staff about how to handle such emails. Put your backups outside of the reach of attackers, and make sure they work by testing that you can restore working systems from them. Recovery and removal.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The only way to tackle this challenge is to educate the users about these threats and their potential implications. Before the device applies the update, it sends a backup to the servers. It’s going to take some time and effort before end IoT users become aware that their smart devices can be used against them or against someone else.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

To gain access to internal networks, Akira targeted local accounts with disabled multifactor authentication (MFA) and SonicOS firmware versions vulnerable to exploitation, often exposed to the internet for virtual private network (VPN) access. Similar groups like REvil and DarkSide have also rebounded after law enforcement crackdowns.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Firmware attacks: Attackers target vulnerabilities in the simplified software that runs computer hard drives, printers, medical devices, and other Internet of Things (IoT) or operational technology (OT) devices to gain unauthorized access, control the devices, or use them as a launching pad for other attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

User education is one of the most powerful tools for preventing malicious mobile apps. Often organizations can mitigate ransomware attacks by having up-to-date backups. If their files become locked, they can simply wipe the system and reboot from an offline backup. Firmware rootkit. How to Defend Against Ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Instead, apply defense in depth, provide employee cybersecurity training , and use threat intelligence platforms to provide general protection and educate both non-technical and security teams about the latest threats. No specific tool exists to defend specifically against nation state attacks, ransomware gangs, or hacktivists.

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Kali Linux

MAY 31, 2021

Where possible, Kali-Tweaks will also display what commands are being executed to help educate users. This is due to bluez , bluez-firmware , and pi-bluetooth packages forked and patched Raspberry Pi kernel updated to 5.4.83 So, we started developing Kali-Tweaks. This is because it will not have the necessary variables.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

The updates are done through firmware, firmware updates that we get from the vendor. So the ICS village started about eight years ago at DEF CON to bring education awareness and exposure to industrial control systems. Vamosi: who is attracted then to this village you said you wanted to educate? Let me start over that.

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