Month: May 2023
Global MSP Day 2023: Q&A with our thought leaders
It’s an exciting week for the managed service provider (MSP) community – Global MSP Day 2023 is tomorrow! On June 1st, we’ll be celebrating, networking, and learning alongside MSPs around the world. This day would not be possible without the...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: AWS exploited for crypto mining operation
Indonesian cybercriminals are exploiting Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances to carry out illicit crypto mining activities. The GUI-vil group has been identified as the threat actors on this exploit. What is the threat? GUI-vil, a financially motivated threat actor, leverages...
A look into IT service provider spending habits
A survey of nearly 400 IT service providers, MSPs, and other professional service companies finds well over half (58 percent) have increased their suppliers over the past three years, with 26 percent keeping the number of vendors they work with...
View of AI: an expert’s take on its impact
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a slowly growing part of the cat-and-mouse game between cybercriminal and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)/Managed Service Provider (MSP) since the first crude AI tools became available decades ago. But AI has exploded into the...
Tech Time Warp: Burning questions about Flame’s origins
The Flame virus first flickered publicly in May 2012 when the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union requested the hacking of Iranian computers be investigated. Although not widespread — only a few hundred targeted computers were thought to have been infected...
Global MSP Day 2023: The secret to thriving and growing in the MSP industry
How does a full day of networking and learning with your fellow MSPs around the world sound? If you want to know the latest trends and challenges facing IT professionals, then don’t miss this year’s annual Global MSP Day 2023,...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Three Apple zero-day vulnerabilities
Apple released security updates to address three new zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild. These vulnerabilities are associated with WebKit and covers different intrusion methods. Barracuda MSP recommends applying the latest security updates from Apple to resolve these vulnerabilities....
Report: 2023 spear-phishing trends
Cybercriminals continue to barrage organizations with targeted spear-phishing attacks, and many companies are struggling to keep up. In fact, Barracuda market research finds that 50% of surveyed organizations were victims of spear phishing in 2022 — and 24% had at least...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Cisco Small Business Switches remote attack vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cisco Small Business routers, allowing bad actors to remotely execute arbitrary code with root privileges on an affected device and cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. These vulnerabilities are due to improper validation of requests...
How to use ChatGPT for MSP outbound prospecting
What an exciting time to be in business development for MSPs! The advent of ChatGPT has quickly improved our process. It’s given us back some time while providing us with good quality sales enablement copy that’s already getting marginal results....
