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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.
November 13, 2023  — 18 min read
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November 13, 2023  — 18 min read
Defending clients against ransomware: Expert tips for MSPs
Gain expert insights on defending against ransomware in the MSP landscape. Discover effective prevention and response strategies to enhance cybersecurity and protect clients from emerging cyberthreats.
November 13, 2023  — 11 min read
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November 13, 2023  — 11 min read
The Ultimate MSP Guide to Ransomware Protection and Recovery
Learn essential strategies for ransomware protection and recovery tailored for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). This guide provides expert insights into effective prevention, detection, and response techniques to bolster cybersecurity and safeguard against evolving cyber threats
November 09, 2023  — 15 min read
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November 09, 2023  — 15 min read
Best SaaS Backup Solution in 2024
Many organizations believe it is not necessary to have a software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup strategy in place, thinking that their data is protected by the SaaS provider. Unfortunately, this is not true. Data loss can occur when using SaaS – in fact, Gartner reports that 70% of organizations are likely to suffer business disruption by 2022 due to unrecoverable data loss in a SaaS application.
November 08, 2023  — 4 min read
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November 08, 2023  — 4 min read
Securing critical M365 collaboration applications
Providing security for organizations' critical cloud collaboration applications is now more important than ever before. Acronis’ Collaboration App Security for M365 is an advanced security solution that provides comprehensive protection against content-based attacks. Service providers can now have 360-degree advanced threat protection for content-based attacks, designed to replace or augment Microsoft's security services.
November 06, 2023  — 4 min read
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November 06, 2023  — 4 min read
Acronis Cyberthreats Update, November 2023
The Acronis Cyberthreats Update covers current cyberthreat activity and trends, as observed by Acronis analysts and sensors. Figures presented here were gathered in October of this year and reflect threats that we detected as well as news stories from the public domain. This report represents a global outlook and is based on more than one million unique endpoints distributed around the world.
November 06, 2023  — 15 min read
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November 06, 2023  — 15 min read
How Do I Backup my Laptop? The Complete Guide
Securely back up your laptop data today and protect your important files with our professional laptop backup software, using our guide with top hints and tips
November 02, 2023  — 2 min read
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November 02, 2023  — 2 min read
AV-Test results: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud scores 10/10 in Advanced Threat Protection
AV-Test unveiled their Advanced Threat Protection test results for 10 real-life scenarios they ran in July and August 2023 in Windows 10 Professional. Once again, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Advanced Security received the best possible score, successfully detecting and blocking all 10 attacks in their early stages.
October 25, 2023  — 18 min read
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October 25, 2023  — 18 min read
Ursnif, the banking trojan
Ursnif, also known as Gozi or Dreambot, is a banking trojan. Ursnif is typically delivered via phishing emails that contain malicious attachments or links. There has been a surge of Ursnif campaigns led by different individuals with no relation to one another. These campaigns resulted in successful attacks on several Italian banks, stealing user credentials and gathering information from compromised networks.
October 25, 2023  — 9 min read
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October 25, 2023  — 9 min read
Ultimate Guide on How to Back Up MariaDB Database
Suppose your organization uses MariaDB to manage your existing databases as an alternative to MySQL. In that case, you probably already know that you have many different options for securing and backing up your databases or restoring them if you ever experience an issue.
October 20, 2023  — 3 min read
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October 20, 2023  — 3 min read
HIPAA-compliant disaster recovery: The future of health care data protection
In the health care sector, the margin for error is virtually nonexistent, especially when it comes to data management and protection. As digitization accelerates, data becomes the cornerstone of effective patient care. With that in mind, Acronis is proud to introduce Advanced Disaster Recovery, designed to support health care applications, that complements our other established, HIPAA-compliant backup solutions.
October 20, 2023  — 6 min read
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October 20, 2023  — 6 min read
Build with Acronis: An introduction to Acronis CyberApp Standard
Today, we are proud to announce a new chapter in Acronis history with the release of Acronis CyberApp Standard, a unique development framework that provides a fully digital ISV and MSP experience to build an application on the Acronis platform.
October 20, 2023  — 3 min read
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October 20, 2023  — 3 min read
Ten tips for secure online shopping
Learn about the most essential tips on how to ensure you are having a secure online shopping experience, what are the risks of online shopping and how you can protect yourself from them.