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March 31, 2025  — 3 min read
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March 31, 2025  — 3 min read
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud earns Top Product award again in latest AV-TEST evaluation
In the AV-TEST Institute’s January–February 2025 evaluation, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud delivered a flawless performance again, demonstrating constant and reassuring results.
September 20, 2020  — 8 min read
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September 20, 2020  — 8 min read
Nefilim ransomware uses Citrix vulnerability to compromise victims’ machines
The Nefilim ransomware group, known to be active since February 2020, adopts the Nemty ransomware code written in the Delphi programming language. It uses a Citrix vulnerability/RDP to access corporate networks. Nefilim started its own data leak site called ‘Corporate Leaks,’ where the operators publish exfiltrated data from compromised organizations if they refuse to pay.
September 17, 2020  — 7 min read
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September 17, 2020  — 7 min read
Pandemic protection lessons: IT teams reflect on their cyber readiness
The COVID pandemic threw the strengths and weaknesses of organizational IT stacks into sharp relief. Now – half a year after most offices closed and work transitioned to remote work environments – we’re taking a look back at how businesses around the world performed through the sudden, dramatic shift. To do that, we surveyed more than 3,000 remote workers and IT managers around the world about their experiences both during and following the migration to remote work environments in our first Acronis Cyber Readiness Report. Learn how IT teams at organizations worldwide led their organizations through the unexpected, navigated a sudden jump in environment and security complexity, and how your team can stay prepared for the next challenges that are in store with this report deep-dive.
September 09, 2020  — 6 min read
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September 09, 2020  — 6 min read
Acronis Cyber Readiness Report: Pandemic reveals cybersecurity gaps, need for new solutions
The newly released Acronis Cyber Readiness Report reveals that organizations continue to struggle to protect their data and infrastructure against the new challenges of the remote work landscape. It also underscores how new solutions are required 92% of surveyed companies reported they had to adopt new technologies to enable remote work, including workplace collaboration tools, privacy solutions, and endpoint cybersecurity.
September 01, 2020  — 2 min read
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September 01, 2020  — 2 min read
Helping MSPs deliver easy, efficient and secure solutions to clients
Being a service provider isn’t easy; we get it. That’s one of the reasons why Acronis looks for innovative ways to help you simplify your processes so that you can deliver cyber protection to your clients in an easy, efficient, and secure way. One thing we never want to do is put your clients’ security at risk, which is why we recently moved to monthly releases for the Acronis Cyber Cloud. This approach ensures they are always protected from the latest cyberthreats – while giving you access to high-demand features and functionalities that help you better protect your clients. In the latest release, we introduce new features and changes to our pricing, licensing, and editions to make it even easier for you to deliver cyber protection to your clients.
August 27, 2020  — 3 min read
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August 27, 2020  — 3 min read
All-encompassing tragedy prevention: The reviews are in for Acronis True Image 2021
Last week’s release of Acronis True Image 2021 has certainly been well-received by the individuals, prosumers, and small businesses looking for cyber protection – and that’s the true measure of success for our team. Yet it was also good to see that the new release made some good impressions on the analysts and media outlets that follow the personal and small business software and cybersecurity industries. As the first truly comprehensive personal cyber protection solution – integrating advanced cybersecurity with our best-of-breed backup – we knew it would generate some interest. Considering how many over-hyped pitches these industry observers regularly get, it’s been refreshing to see them recognize the revolutionary nature of this release.
August 21, 2020  — 12 min read
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August 21, 2020  — 12 min read
NetWalker leverages obfuscated PowerShell to start C# injector
NetWalker ransomware was discovered in August 2019 in the wild. It implements a ransomware-as-a-service model, targeting both organizations and individual users. Since March 2020, the operators have managed to extort approximately $25 million.
August 21, 2020  — 3 min read
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August 21, 2020  — 3 min read
Acronis True Image 2021’s integrated antimalware aces AV-TEST analysis
When Acronis created the concept of cyber protection – the integration of reliable backups and effective cybersecurity – it was because we saw how hackers were creating more sophisticated attacks that start by corrupting backup software, disabling backup agents, and altering backup files.
August 20, 2020  — 4 min read
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August 20, 2020  — 4 min read
Acronis True Image 2021: Introducing the world’s first complete personal cyber protection solution
In today’s digital world, you can lose data in any number of ways. You can accidentally delete something you need. Your hard drive can fail. And now there’s a never-ending array of malware threats that usually start their attacks by targeting your backups so you have no way to recover. And, until now, there hasn’t been a single solution that addressed it all. With today’s release of Acronis True Image 2021, that all changes. That’s because the new Acronis True Image integrates advanced cybersecurity capabilities with our best-of-breed personal backup. The result is the world’s first complete personal cyber protection solution – purpose-built to make protection easier to manage and more affordable, while greatly improving the security of data and devices.
August 14, 2020  — 4 min read
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August 14, 2020  — 4 min read
Targeted phishing takes aim at Acronis – and loses
Phishing attacks, which involve criminals posing as legitimate contacts use emails and instant messaging to trick victims into providing valuable information like login credentials and banking or credit card details, is a major challenge for organizations ... and it’s on the rise. The Anti-Phishing Working Group’s (APWG) Phishing Activity Trends Report for Q1 2020 notes that phishing attacks rose to the highest level since 2016, with more than 60,000 phishing sites being reported in March alone. As a member of APWG, Acronis can confirm that we’ve seen an uptick as well and Acronis employees of all levels receive well-crafted phishing emails every day. Let’s look at one recent example that targeted one of our c-level executives.
August 13, 2020  — 5 min read
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August 13, 2020  — 5 min read
Top cyberthreat against macOS now installs adware with a Python script
The first examples of the Shlayer malware family were discovered in February 2018. Since then, it has become the most popular macOS first-stage trojan-downloader.
August 06, 2020  — 3 min read
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August 06, 2020  — 3 min read
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud certified by ICSA Labs
This year, Acronis successfully took part in ICSA Labs’ assessment for Endpoint Product for Business, Anti-malware certification. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud passed all of the tests to be certified and achieved the same excellent result it did with AV-Comparatives and VB100 – earning certification after its first test. As in evaluations by other testing laboratories, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud showed zero false-positive reactions, a close to perfect (99.9%) on-demand detection rate, and a 98.2% real-world detection of new and unknown malware threats!
July 16, 2020  — 5 min read
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July 16, 2020  — 5 min read
Acronis Cyber Protect earns Approved Business Security product certification
With the release of Acronis Cyber Protect in Q2 2020, Acronis joined AV-Comparatives’ annual test of business security solutions. AV-Comparatives is a world-famous independent testing organization, which was established in Austria in 1999. Certification by AV-Comparatives provides an official, globally recognized seal of approval for software performance. The first half-year report by AV-Comparatives was just released, and Acronis received the prestigious Approved Business Security badge -- delivering a 98% detection rate and zero false positives.