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New Acronis research reveals how outdated software, unsupported apps and delayed security updates create hidden risks for SMBs and MSPs.

Widely trusted tools like ConnectWise ScreenConnect and AnyDesk may be abused by attackers, and when left unattended, they can present a problem: Their legitimate prevalence makes attacker activity harder to spot, and any vulnerabilities affecting them can turn a trusted platform into an infection vector.

Remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools are widely used in modern IT operations, but they are increasingly exploited by cybercriminals. Here, in this first blog, in a two-part series, we analyze the data to discover where RMM-associated risks lie.

Acronis TRU reveals how one operator used a 12-agent AI attack mesh to target organizations across 11 countries and transform cyberthreat operations.

Buying protection is not the same as being protected. What decides the outcome is how the protection is configured and used every day. This report looks at that gap. It uses the live configuration records behind a large managed fleet, more than 1.6 million active endpoints, to see how protection plans are actually set up, how administrators and the providers who manage them choose to structure plans and what those choices tel

Qilin, also known as Agenda, is a Russian-speaking ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that first appeared in 2022.

The Gentlemen uses a double-extortion model. In addition to encrypting files, the ransomware can exfiltrate data from compromised systems. This puts additional pressure on victims to pay the ransom to restore access to their files and prevent the stolen data from being publicly leaked.