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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Network Attached Storage, or NAS devices are still a popular storage solution for organisations, even if they also use other cloud solutions. Octagon Technology still uses NAS devices as part of our disaster recovery/incident response planning. The use and reach across an organisation’s network that NAS devices have, make them …
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Here are two reports you should catch up with to start to understand the threat ransomware poses to your organisation: Ransomware The True Cost to Business 2022 | Report (cybereason.com) The Active Adversary Playbook 2022 – Sophos News Once you see what the problem is – you can check that …
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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 …
