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May 20, 2025  — 22 min read
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May 20, 2025  — 22 min read
From banks to battalions: SideWinder’s attacks on South Asia’s public sector
Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) uncovered a new SideWinder APT campaign targeting high-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
October 18, 2016  — 3 min read
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October 18, 2016  — 3 min read
Service Providers: Fight Ransomware, Become a Superhero to Your Customers
We’ve spend the last few weeks examining various aspects of ransomware, a type of malware that encrypts computer hard drives and demands an online ransom of hundreds or thousands of dollars for the decryption key, without which users can never access their files again. In both its effectiveness and its astonishingly rapid proliferation, it represents a unique new threat both to consumers and businesses. Its ease of use by low-skilled criminals, highly-leveraged distribution model, and versatility at defeating a range of endpoint security measures is unprecedented in the history of malware. By denying access to critical applications, a ransomware attack can cost a business tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, damage the brand, and even (when hospitals and public safety organizations are the victims) put lives at risk.
October 17, 2016  — 5 min read
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October 17, 2016  — 5 min read
It’s Get To Know Your Customers Day — Let’s Get Connected!
At Acronis, our Customers are our biggest priority — why else would we put our time and energy into innovation that protects your digital life to the highest degree? We care, and we want to prove it through actions, not words.
October 14, 2016  — 3 min read
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October 14, 2016  — 3 min read
Building a Private Cloud for Backup Storage
Managed backup and data storage is a hot business in today’s highly-connected data-heavy environment. According to the Spiceworks State of IT 2016 spending report, managed backup and storage services is one of the top business investments, brandishing up to 13% of total budget allocation. Acronis Backup Cloud is designed for resellers and service providers to address this opportunity directly, with a hybrid cloud backup service that protects your customers’ data wherever it may reside.
October 13, 2016  — 2 min read
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October 13, 2016  — 2 min read
Photos, Videos, and Contacts: How Valuable Is Your Mobile’s Data?
Just like millions of other people, my wife uses her mobile phone for almost everything – to keep track of important activities, search for babysitters, look up tutors for our daughters, order food, mobile banking, paying bills and much more. Mobile phones are great – they save a lot of time. But most of us store data on our phones without even considering what might happen if they’re lost. Just pause for a moment and think: does your phone have the only copy of your photos, contacts, and other important info? Will you be able to recover it if you lose your phone? We’ve learnt our lesson a difficult way.
October 12, 2016  — 12 min read
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October 12, 2016  — 12 min read
Top 10 Server & Application Monitoring Tools
Today’s businesses and organizations are increasingly relying on web applications and corresponding IT infrastructures to streamline their operations, and engage their customers. However, the complex digital environment, comprising of a diversity of networks, devices and technologies may prevent delivery of a meaningful user experience.
October 11, 2016  — 3 min read
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October 11, 2016  — 3 min read
Hyper-V Story of Bill, Ted, and Matthew
Our story began many months ago, in a small, but very techy town on the eastern coast of Florida. The small office building couple of blocks from the beach was home to two young, small, but promising companies – let’s call them Bee Business Solutions and Tee Technologies. Both companies had an IT team of one – Bill handled Bee’s systems, and Ted worked in Tee. Needless to say, they were best buddies. Almost at the same time, they realized that their companies have run out of server capacity, as they needed to run more data workloads. But they didn’t have the budget to buy more servers. So, they decided to use Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology on old servers instead.
October 10, 2016  — 3 min read
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October 10, 2016  — 3 min read
Disaster Recovery Is Your Ultimate Backup
Hurricane Matthew took the lives of hundreds of people in Haiti last weekend, then steamed up the southeast coast of the United States, threatening lives, businesses, roads, bridges: everything in its path. It caused widespread power outages, flooding, and network havoc throughout Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
October 07, 2016  — 4 min read
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October 07, 2016  — 4 min read
How Motorsport Sponsorship Can Drive Your Business and Your Brand
Sponsoring a sports team can be beneficial for your company but you need to choose your sport wisely to get the most traction for your brand, your products, partners, clients, and employees.
October 07, 2016  — 4 min read
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October 07, 2016  — 4 min read
There Are Many Ways to Repel Ransomware, Only One Way to Defeat It
In our continuing series on the new malware menace known as ransomware, we’ve looked what it’s like to suffer a ransomware attack, why it’s become a weapon of choice for online criminals (they’re making gobs of money off it), and why it has grown so quickly (hackers are copying the SaaS industry’s highly-leveraged distribution model). Given how likely it is that you or someone you know will get hit by a ransomware attack in the coming months, now might be a good time to shore up your anti-ransomware defenses.
October 06, 2016  — 6 min read
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October 06, 2016  — 6 min read
Mikhail Grachev: Data Is the Winning Force in Motor Racing
If you’re into touring car racing, you’d have heard about the TCR International Series. And if you heard about the TCR International series, you’d have probably heard about the Swedish WestCoast Racing Team. And if you heard about WestCoast Racing, you’d have heard about the driver Mikhail Grachev. And if you heard about Mikhail Grachev, you’d probably realize by now that he is one of the best drivers in the Series, with four victories already in his pocket this season.
October 05, 2016  — 4 min read
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October 05, 2016  — 4 min read
Extreme Data Recovery: Author Runs into a Fiery House to Save Unpublished Novel
Two weeks ago we heard reports of an author who risked his life sneaking past the firefighters into a burning house to save his laptop. It had the only copy of his latest novel. “When I heard my house was on fire,” Gideon Hodge said, “I ran up to the perimeter set by the firefighters, then walked calmly until I saw an opening that no one was watching. That was when I bolted for it!”
October 04, 2016  — 2 min read
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October 04, 2016  — 2 min read
Hidden Costs Of Backup: Front-End Capacity
We are all too familiar with the concept of hidden costs. You work with suppliers and/or vendors, and it looks like their published pricing matches your expectations. That is until you get their quote (or worse, the invoice), and you see a very different figure. What happened? There were fees, charges or the licensing models that you have not taken into account. It could happen in every aspect of your life and work, and backup solutions are no different. Let’s talk about potential hidden costs you need to be aware of.