Hackers have created a new Android malware which can remotely wake up your smartphone, unlock the screen and then steal data as well as funds from your bank accounts in real-time. As reported by BleepingComputer, this new Android banking malware has been dubbed MMRat by security researchers at Trend Micro who first discovered it back […]
Today, the US Justice Department announced a multinational operation involving actions in the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to disrupt the botnet and malware known as Qakbot and take down its infrastructure. Beyond just taking down the backbone of the operation, the FBI began actively intercepting traffic from the botnet
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LOS ANGELES — The FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major global malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks, U.S. officials said Tuesday. They then remotely removed the malicious software agent – known as Qakbot – from thousands
Introduction: In today’s data-driven world, businesses generate more data than ever. As this data accumulates, so does the need for efficient storage and management solutions. Data archiving, a practice that involves moving rarely accessed or inactive data to a long-term storage system, has become increasingly important for companies of all sizes. In this article, we’ll
Imagine a scale where the two endpoints represent two extreme data protection policies. The endpoint on the left-hand side of the scale is marked, “good backup of the system when it was configured and released into Production” (i.e. “day-zero backup”). The endpoint on the right-hand side of the scale is marked, “real-time mirroring/replication”. These two
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iSCSI vs. NFS – which one is better choice for Instant VM? Occasionally I come across a discussion about which approach is better to serve backup data to an Instant VM – iSCSI or NFS, or any others? Those who advocate NFS quite often say that if the target hypervisor supports NFS storage and the
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Recent reports from multiple sources reveal the weight of ransomware attacks has recently skewed towards MSP networks. Sources confirm in some cases the hacker’s penetration causes disabling backup and disaster recovery (BDR) systems. Depending on how MSP’s handle end-customer separation from MSP environment – the ransomware can either be propagated to the end-user fleet, or
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Recent reports from multiple sources reveal the weight of ransomware attacks has recently skewed towards MSP networks. Sources confirm in some cases the hacker’s penetration causes disabling backup and disaster recovery (BDR) systems. Depending on how MSP’s handle end-customer separation from MSP environment – the ransomware can either be propagated to the end-customer fleet or
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It is already the third month of the year, and you are most likely still trying to implement the positive changes your business decided to embark upon in the beginning of the year. Are you where you thought you would be by now? Are you struggling to define these ‘New Year business resolutions’ or have
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All MSPs at one point or another are likely to deal with clients who are not ‘tech-savvy’ or do not understand the different technical aspects of backup and disaster recovery management. In these cases, it is important to treat these clients a little differently to ensure their satisfaction and to maintain, if not better, the
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