Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Raspberry Robin worm attacks aimed at telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

Just after the WorldNet Telecommunications, the LG electronics fall as a victim of the Maze ransomware operators.” A few days ago the group released a press release in which they warned the companies to not try to recover their files from their backup, it also announced the forthcoming LG Electronics data leak.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

According to Jay McBain, an analyst at Forrester Research, spending on IT and telecommunications will be worth about $7 trillion by 2030. FalconStor Backup as a Service (BaaS) includes backup and data deduplication. Also read: Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection. Competition is fierce. Data Protection.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

” Since then the group has expanded its range of activities to include targeting organizations providing cable telecommunications, email, and tech services, and partnering with the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since then the group has expanded its range of activities to include targeting organizations providing cable telecommunications, email, and tech services, and partnering with the ALPHV ransomware group. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Don’t get attacked twice.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers to spy on the traffic and steal data. US NSA, CISA, and the FBI published a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn that China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

Highlighting the risk landscape, Resecurity’s Dark Web analysis identified multiple compromised credentials belonging to network engineers that could grant threat actors access to gateways like: enterprise identity and access management (IAM), virtualization systems, various cloud providers, and backup and disaster recovery systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

NCA infiltrates the cybercriminal underground with fake DDoS-for-hire sites Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 awarded $1,035,000 and a Tesla for 27 0-days CISA announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications initiative China-linked hackers target telecommunication providers in the Middle East City of Toronto is one of the victims hacked by Clop gang using GoAnywhere (..)

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2020

“Israel appears to be behind a cyberattack earlier this month on computers at Iran’s Shahid Rajaee port that caused massive backups on waterways and roads leading to the facility, the Washington Post reported on Monday.” ” reads the report published by the Reuters. “Citing unnamed U.S.

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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 122

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Australian telecommunications giant Optus suffers a data breach involving nearly 10 million customers , including passport or license numbers on almost three million people. The intruder told The New York Times they got in by sending a text message to an employee while posing as an employee from Uber’s IT department.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Raspberry Robin worm attacks aimed at telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe.

Government 52

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The data blocks can be configured by the access conditions bits as: Read/Write blocks : fully arbitrary data, in arbitrary format Value blocks: fixed data format which permits native error detection and correction and a backup management. The lowest significant byte of a value is stored in the lowest address byte.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

From a GUI enterprise manager to advanced logical replication, backup and recovery, and a migration toolkit, EDB is a go-to vendor for all Postgre database administrators. Started in 1987, the telecommunications provider has become a multinational technology whale. Also Read: Cloud Bucket Vulnerability Management in 2021.

Firewall 121

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IT Security Guru

JULY 28, 2023

Encryption and Data Backup : Encrypting sensitive data in transit and at rest provides additional protection against unauthorised access. Access Controls and Authentication : Implementing strict access controls and multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanisms can significantly reduce the risk of unauthorised data access.

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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.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

encryption in transit Tools for remote management , global dashboards, and geo IP tracking Access to 24×7 DevOps team for technical support and remediating active threats Logical secure access including role-based access control, 2FA , and SSO Automate configuration backup and recovery for resilient policies and controls.

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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

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Unlike LANs, which rely on local cables or wireless signals, WANs often use leased telecommunications lines, satellite links, or fiber-optic connections to maintain high-speed, long-distance communication. Regular Backups Scheduling regular backups of network configurations and critical data is crucial for disaster recovery.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work. That said, empower your employees with an effective and simple Data Loss Protection solution , allowing Automated backup and restore, deletion control , smooth migration, version control , activity reports, etc.,

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Redundant devices or backup devices will generally be required for a resilient architecture and can be used to restore systems quickly after a DDoS attack. Ribbon Communications’ DDoS solutions focus on stopping attacks against a variety of telecommunications infrastructure (PBX, VoIP, SIP Trunks, etc.)

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

The largest share of victims fell into the category Engineering & Manufacturing (30%), followed by Finance (14%), Professional & Consumer Services (9%), Legal (7%), and IT & Telecommunications (7%). Set up offline backups that intruders cannot tamper with. Make sure you can quickly access them in an emergency.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In 2018, Australia passed a Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment that permits a five-year jail penalty to be applied to visitors that refuse to provide passwords for all digital devices when crossing the border into Australia. Second, encryption key rotation can render data stored in backups or on removable media inaccessible.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

For IT services and infrastructure, some larger MSPs will provide generalist services and attempt to solve all problems. Others will seek to specialize and provide services such as: Application monitoring Compliance consulting and services (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, etc.)

Software 98

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

For IT services and infrastructure, some larger MSPs will provide generalist services and attempt to solve all problems. Others will seek to specialize and provide services such as: Application monitoring Compliance consulting and services (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, etc.)

Software 97

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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

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2025

Treasury removed sanctions against the crypto mixer service Tornado Cash Zero-day broker Operation Zero offers up to $4 million for Telegram exploits RansomHub affiliate uses custom backdoor Betruger Cisco Smart Licensing Utility flaws actively exploited in the wild Pennsylvania State Education Association data breach impacts 500,000 individuals Veeam (..)

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 8, 2023

Among its victims are Tonga Communications Corporation (TCC), a state-owned telecommunications company, and oil and gas regulator company PetroChina Indonesia. Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Write an incident response plan.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

has directed Apple to create a backdoor into its encrypted iCloud backup service, a move that could have profound implications for digital privacy and security worldwide. According to The Washington Post , the U.K. This feature ensures that only Apple customersnot even Apple itselfcan access their stored data.

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