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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.
July 12, 2019  — 3 min read
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July 12, 2019  — 3 min read
Top Business and Data Protection Strategies for Gulf Coast Flooding and More
For businesses, preparing for a flood (or any natural disaster) is not something that should be left to the last minute. Fortunately, there are a few established business and data protection strategies that companies should take to protect their businesses and their businesses precious data from this flood and those that will follow:
July 11, 2019  — 5 min read
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July 11, 2019  — 5 min read
Modular Cryptojackers Now Deliver Illicit Cryptomining to Cover Multiple Platforms at Once
Cryptojacking attacks are not going away any time soon. Instead, they’re becoming more sophisticated – and more dangerous – by using advanced modular malware with worm capabilities as a delivery mechanism. A complex backdoor, called Plurox, was recently discovered by MalwareHunterTeam. It has a pluggable architecture and is able to spread itself over a local network, with the help of the EternalBlue exploit, and start cryptominers downloaded from the command and control (C&C) server.
July 10, 2019  — 3 min read
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July 10, 2019  — 3 min read
British Airways Hit with GDPR Fine, Shows the Cost of Not Protecting Customer Data
The kaboom you heard earlier this week was the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)  laying the hammer on British Airways in the form of a ₤183.39 M ($230M) fine for its failure to prevent a 2018 data breach that disclosed sensitive data on over half a million BA customers. It’s exactly the kind of disaster that BA could have avoided had it heeded our advice early last year: “Get moving fast to improve cyber protection and privacy for your customers’ sensitive data. It won’t be long before national regulatory agencies start levying massive fines on well-known companies that fail to do so.
July 08, 2019  — 3 min read
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July 08, 2019  — 3 min read
How the NIO Formula E Team Employs AI for Slicker Pit Work
The NIO Formula E team employs artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) developed by Acronis to recognize the signs of failing sensors and notifies their engineers before they can cause performance degradation on the track. This keeps the team at the front of the pack in motorsports fastest, and fastest-growing, competition.
July 03, 2019  — 16 min read
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July 03, 2019  — 16 min read
Taking a deep dive into Sodinokibi ransomware
While Sodinokibi ransomware has been in the news recently, technical details for that particular strain have been far less visible. In this article, we’ll dissect Sodinokibi, shine a light on how it works, and review how you can protect your system from this threat.
June 27, 2019  — 2 min read
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June 27, 2019  — 2 min read
3 Steps to Restore Your Server in Mere Minutes
Disk-imaging technology, faster storage, and new protocols have changed the average recovery time objectives (RTOs) from hours to minutes. But in the modern world, data is so critical that many businesses are working to reduce RTOs even further, and with good reason. Today a business that doesn’t have access to its data can lose $100,000 every hour, in addition to the potentially huge costs of recovering that data.
June 24, 2019  — 3 min read
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June 24, 2019  — 3 min read
Ransomware Attack Costs $1.5 Million in Riviera Beach, FL
The city of Riviera Beach, Florida made news recently when it announced it was paying approximately $600,000 in ransom to undo a ransomware attack it suffered in late May. In addition to the ransom paid, officials also invested more than $900,000 into new hardware in the hopes that they do not have the same vulnerabilities as the old ones. That’s $1.5 million in damages from one attack.
June 20, 2019  — 4 min read
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June 20, 2019  — 4 min read
Cashing In on Crime: GandCrab May End, But The Threat of Ransomware Continues
They say crime doesn’t pay, but clearly the architects behind GandCrab ransomware didn’t get that memo. They recently announced they were retiring thanks to the money they’ve made encrypting victims’ computers. At the beginning of June, operators of the notorious GandCrab strain of ransomware announced that “all good things come to an end” and they are ceasing their operations. Unfortunately the success they reported will likely provide a roadmap for other cybercriminals that will continue for a long time.
June 18, 2019  — 3 min read
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June 18, 2019  — 3 min read
Why Your Organization and Team Members Need to be #CyberFit
News of security breaches, data loss, and data theft is sadly a daily occurrence. Almost every industry and every size of organization have been hit — including governments, retailers, universities, and healthcare systems. What’s worse, affected businesses suffer both financial and reputational losses while being dragged into the news cycles. It’s clear that organizations and employees are not CyberFit enough to meet today’s data security and privacy challenges. Let’s look at how the landscape has changed and what organizations need to do to become CyberFit.
June 14, 2019  — 4 min read
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June 14, 2019  — 4 min read
Ransomware Crushes Another Manufacturing Industry Target
Another of the world’s major manufacturers was laid low recently by a ransomware attack. Production at ASCO, the giant Belgian airplane parts maker, has been halted for over a week with no end in sight. Nearly 1,000 employees have been sent home on paid leave while the company struggles to restore critical systems frozen by the malware assault. Unfortunately, the fate of ASCO has been shared by many organizations that are ill-prepared to combat the world’s deadliest malware threat. The incident reflects a number of major trends in the ongoing struggle between cybercriminals and their targets in the public and private sector.
June 03, 2019  — 3 min read
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June 03, 2019  — 3 min read
CrashPlan Users Migrate to Acronis for Comprehensive Backup Services
As small businesses abandon CrashPlan – the backup service that recently abandoned them – many are migrating to reliable and easy-to-use business backup solutions from Acronis, which deliver more comprehensive coverage of their valuable data. Business owners, as well as the service providers who help these companies with their IT needs, can see for themselves how Acronis has the services they need to ensure the business continuity they expect.
May 25, 2019  — 3 min read
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May 25, 2019  — 3 min read
Acronis SDI Update Available to Counter the MDS Vulnerabilities in Intel Processors
Last week it was revealed that certain Intel processors contain a new set of hardware vulnerabilities that enables “speculative execution attacks”. In these attacks, a malicious app or guest virtual machine gains access to the data stored inside CPU buffers – allowing hackers to bypass the security restrictions on the system. The bad news: The researchers who found the MDS bug say it likely affects all Intel CPUs released since 2011 – and as a result, Acronis Software-Defined Infrastructure could be exposed to an attack. The good news: As soon as the problem was identified, Acronis immediately developed a fix so your data won’t be at risk once you’ve installed the update.