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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.
May 04, 2020  — 2 min read
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May 04, 2020  — 2 min read
For Remote Work, DCIG Whitepaper Shows Protection is Critical
When we made the decision a few weeks ago to delay the general availability of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, it was because we wanted to incorporate new cyber protection features for remote workers and workloads. After all, an unprecedented number of people were suddenly being forced to work from home, and their data, applications, and systems needed protection. That same day, we got an email from our colleagues at the market research firm DCIG to let us know they just published a blog article about how one of their analysts successfully used Acronis True Image for cyber protection and resilience at his home office following a hardware failure. The timing couldn’t have been more synchronistic.
May 01, 2020  — 4 min read
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May 01, 2020  — 4 min read
ZOOM Security Plan and DoppelPaymer Ransomware Attack
New cyberattacks continue to roll in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, including exploits of the most popular video conferencing service and doubling-down on the DoppelPaymer ransomware strain. Here’s a quick recap of the latest updates to these attacks and the planned responses.
April 29, 2020  — 3 min read
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April 29, 2020  — 3 min read
How MSPs Can Leverage the Power of Platform Integration to Grow, Thrive, and Profit
The typical managed service provider (MSP) faces a daunting array of obstacles to building a successful, sustainable and profitable business. To meet these challenges, MSPs must squeeze efficiencies out of their existing tech infrastructure and staff – even as they add new services. Acronis believes the key to this effort is a broad-based leveraging of integration and automation. We’ve outlined the opportunities to MSPs in deploying broader suites of cyber protection services as well and tactics to address the accompanying integration challenges in a new white paper titled The Five Levels of MSP Platform Integration. Here’s a brief preview.
April 28, 2020  — 4 min read
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April 28, 2020  — 4 min read
Cyberattacks Target Remote Work Tools
Remote access to business environments has become a vital part of everyday work during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the common ways an employee like a tech support staffer can connect to a remote employee’s work computer is the Remote Desktop service, which has some well-known security vulnerabilities.
April 28, 2020  — 4 min read
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April 28, 2020  — 4 min read
Digital CoronaVirus: Yet Another Ransomware Combined with Infostealer
At the moment, scammers are trying to cash in by sending out emails that promise pandemic relief money. The emails impersonate official entities such as the U.S. Federal Reserve or other official institutions. With subject lines like “Receive Payment” or “Relief Payment Form”, anxious users are motivated to click on a link that redirects to a phishing website, which tries to steal personal information or online banking credentials. Other email variants use these stimulus bills as bait to deliver a password protected “COVID 19 Relief.doc” document that contains a financial trojan or ransomware. And we still see waves of classic COVID-19 themed malware threats making the rounds. One such threat example that we came across recently dropped a combination of ransomware and infostealer malware.
April 27, 2020  — 3 min read
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April 27, 2020  — 3 min read
Importance of self-defense in cybersecurity software proven yet again
At Acronis, we’ve taken the ability for security software to defend itself seriously right from the start. In 2017 and 2018, our solutions were tested for self-defense capabilities by independent labs, and their research revealed Acronis Cyber Protection Solutions delivered excellent results. Of course, we continue to improve our technologies with every release and constantly research what we can improve in all aspects of cyber protection. Given our mission of delivering cyber protection solutions that ensure the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) of data, in preparing for our upcoming Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud launch, we improved the self-defense capabilities even further.
April 24, 2020  — 3 min read
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April 24, 2020  — 3 min read
COVID-19 Themed Cyberattacks Taking Hold
Cybercriminals continue to exploit the COVID-19 theme in their cyberattacks, trying to trick user into entering their credentials or personal information on a phishing web page or loading malicious documents that pretend to contain essential information related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is a quick roundup of examples that show how scammers and hackers are leveraging the crisis.
April 22, 2020  — 10 min read
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April 22, 2020  — 10 min read
StorageCraft MSP Solutions vs Acronis Cyber Cloud
If you are a managed service provider (MSP) or an IT solutions reseller reading this article, then you are likely researching new data protection and disaster recovery solutions to enhance your client offerings. You are either considering both Acronis and StorageCraft, or you’re already using StorageCraft and looking for alternatives.
April 20, 2020  — 6 min read
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April 20, 2020  — 6 min read
What is VMware Cloud? Benefits for service providers
VMware Cloud lets you run, manage, connect and protect all of your apps on any cloud, letting you choose the cloud or clouds that best meets your app and business needs for the ultimate in cloud computing flexibility.
April 20, 2020  — 6 min read
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April 20, 2020  — 6 min read
What You Need to Know About Remote Work: Hardening Your Home Router
If you’re a user, you always have access to the internet in the office – it’s a given that you don’t have to think about too much. At home, however, each of us usually plays the role of an admin, where your task is to set up the system that your family can use properly. Now that we’re in the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic and a lot of people are working from home, it is more important than ever to double-check the security of your router, since it is now not only the gateway to your personal data, but also to the valuable company data you are accessing remotely.
April 20, 2020  — 4 min read
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April 20, 2020  — 4 min read
What You Need to Know About Remote Work: Activating Your OS Firewall
Many of us have most likely heard the term “firewall” even if we’re not interested in IT security. But what is it? Basically it is a network security system that controls all incoming and outgoing traffic on connected machines, acting as the first line of defense against all internet threats that target local networks or particular machines.
April 20, 2020  — 6 min read
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April 20, 2020  — 6 min read
Making Remote Work Secure: Five “Must Do” Steps
Since COVID-19 became a global pandemic and steps were put in place to contain its spread, more and more people have been forced to work from home. This transition requires many changes in how individuals and organizations operate and communicate, especially in terms of using computers, personal devices, and specific software that enables remote work.