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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 20, 2018  — 3 min read
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November 20, 2018  — 3 min read
How To Block Cryptomining Scripts In Your Web Browser
As the value of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Monero skyrocketed last year, a more sinister trend came with it. Cybercriminals saw the opportunity to hijack unprotected computers to use their processing power to mine cryptocurrency – an activity that involves calculating extremely complex mathematical problems.
November 06, 2018  — 4 min read
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November 06, 2018  — 4 min read
Acronis Cyber Cloud 7.8 Enhances Cyber Protection with 80+ New Features and Improvements
When they first set out to build Acronis Data Cloud our engineers asked themselves: What if MSPs could work with a single data protection platform that’s easy to use, efficient and secure, which evolves with technological advances and threats to data safety alike?
November 05, 2018  — 4 min read
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November 05, 2018  — 4 min read
GUEST BLOG: Gain Multi-Cloud Interoperability Overcoming Challenges
Multi-cloud is defined as an approach that combines more than one cloud (public or private), from more than a single cloud vendor. However, this is not an aggregation of various services from different vendors, it requires a mandatory glue - cloud-agnostic approach with interoperability across all providers. In this guest blog from Jelastic, we look at what challenges can be faced while multi-cloud implementation, and how to achieve the required interoperability.
October 31, 2018  — 1 min read
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October 31, 2018  — 1 min read
The 7 Worst Nightmares of a Sysadmin
It doesn’t need to be a dark and stormy night for a ghoulish incident to destroy the data that keeps yo ur company alive. Every day the stability and security of your system faces nightmares from cybercriminals, system errors, human errors, and more. If you can’t recover quickly, your data doesn’t stand a ghost of a chance. Fear not! To defend your business’ IT systems we’re going to shine a light on the seven most sinister terrors that haunt sysadmins. That way you can be sure there’s nothing in your stack waiting to go bump in the night.
October 29, 2018  — 6 min read
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October 29, 2018  — 6 min read
The 7 Worst Nightmares of a Sysadmin
It doesn’t need to be a dark and stormy night for a ghoulish incident to destroy the data that keeps your company alive. Every day the stability and security of your system faces nightmares from cybercriminals, system errors, human errors, and more. If you can’t recover quickly, your data doesn’t stand a ghost of a chance.
October 23, 2018  — 4 min read
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October 23, 2018  — 4 min read
Acronis Foundation builds a new school in Tanzania for 500 children
In its continuing mission to spread and protect knowledge around the world, the Acronis Foundation marked a new milestone last week by opening a school in the small village of Loongung, Tanzania. The new school, which was built in partnership with the local community and the German-based non-profit Fly & Help, will provide more than 500 children with access to education. While Acronis funded the school and it was constructed in partnership between the Acronis Foundation and Fly & Help, ensuring the villagers retained total control over their children’s education was of the utmost importance. That is why the school building has been donated to Loongung with no strings attached.
October 22, 2018  — 5 min read
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October 22, 2018  — 5 min read
Ransomware still threatens the automotive industry
Ransomware, widely considered to be the fastest-growing malware hazard of the 21st century, continues to threaten the uptime, profits and brand reputation of the automotive industry.
October 19, 2018  — 2 min read
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October 19, 2018  — 2 min read
First Graduates Complete the Yellow Ribbon Fund-Acronis IT Skills Programme in Singapore
One of the first initiatives of the recently established Acronis Foundation was the creation of the Yellow Ribbon Fund-Acronis IT Skills Programme in Singapore, which taught valuable IT and life skills to inmates as a way to help them build a new life after release and reduce the odds that they would reoffend. This week, Acronis is happy to congratulate the first 15 participants on successfully completing the first training course.
October 17, 2018  — 7 min read
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October 17, 2018  — 7 min read
A Guide to Ransomware and How Acronis Active Protection Can Help
Ransomware is one of the most pervasive and costly forms of malware afflicting businesses and consumers today.
October 16, 2018  — 4 min read
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October 16, 2018  — 4 min read
Acronis Opens New R&D Center for Cyber Protection, AI and Blockchain Projects in Bulgaria
With technology, things are always changing. So as a global leader in cyber protection and hybrid cloud solutions, Acronis has to continuously invest in research and development (R&D) to ensure we’re providing customers with the best protection for their data, apps and systems using cutting-edge technologies. That innovative philosophy pays tremendous dividends in the effectiveness of our solutions. Developing those technologies also requires us to find the best and brightest software engineers, scientists and security experts wherever they may be. That is why we have a network of R&D centers located around the world, operating in Asia, Europe and America. Such a global presence not only allows us to develop cyber protection, artificial intelligence, and blockchain-based technologies around the clock, it puts us closer to the best talent around the world. Now that R&D network is even larger since we just opened our new European office and R&D center in Sofia, Bulgaria. The strategic location will not only help us better serve our European-based customers, but the central location enables us to more easily draw on the well-educated and dedicated technical talent pool the continent offers.
October 05, 2018  — 3 min read
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October 05, 2018  — 3 min read
Windows Update 1809 is Deleting Files: Backup Before You Update
Microsoft recently made Update 1809 available (also called Redstone 5) and no sooner were users installing the update than they were making a terrible discovery. The update is deleting photos and documents from the users’ systems. To be clear, the update is not moving these files to another partition or compressing them – it’s erasing them from the system – just as an earlier Windows 10 upgrade generated horror stories of people who lost everything – from precious photos to important documents to irreplaceable videos.
October 03, 2018  — 11 min read
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October 03, 2018  — 11 min read
​Cloud storage services: The good and the bad
Being responsible for running a business, you may not give much thought to how much data your employees store on their computers and other devices?