Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is a ransomware encryption attack, that Octagon’s backup solution is designed to mitigate against. The attack exploits the Microsoft 365 versioning feature, when editing a file, saved in SharePoint or OneDrive. Once the threat actors gets into the cloud storage they can execute their attack and start encrypting your …
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Before any malware can carry out the malicious tasks it was designed to do – it has to get into and infect a host system. This can be done in a variety of ways. It can be something as simple as plugging in an infected USB stick into your computer …
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Threat actors, just like any other software developer, are always looking for ways to improve their software. In the case of threat actors this is often done to avoid the mitigation that software vendors have put in place to defend against the malware or patch a vulnerability the threat actors …
This report by Adam Janofsky at The Record shows some dipping in the number of reported ransomware attacks over the past few weeks. However there has been a measured increase in the activity of the ransomware gang LockBit. Ransomware tracker: the latest figures [June 2022] – The Record by Recorded …
This equally applies to individuals, large and small organisations and government departments. The threat actors best friend, is when we all compartmentalise our cyber security issues, dealing with them quietly and behind closed doors – this includes trying to pay the cyber criminals off! This gives them the opportunity to …
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