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Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New malware campaign targets banking institutions

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New malware campaign targets banking institutions

A sophisticated malware campaign known as “Toitoin” is targeting banking firms in Latin America. The campaign employs evasive techniques, including the use of custom-built modules, encryption methods, and hosting malware on Amazon EC2 instances to evade detection. It is crucial...

/ July 12, 2023
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical VMware Aria Operations vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical VMware Aria Operations vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in older versions of VMware Aria Operations for Networks and VMware Aria Operations for Logs. The vulnerabilities allow bad actors to perform remote code execution as the root user. Remote code execution can lead to system...

/ July 12, 2023
Threat Spotlight: Extortion attacks

Threat Spotlight: Extortion attacks

Extortion attacks, which are an increasingly common form of email scams, threaten the victim with compromising information, such as an embarrassing photo, and request payment in a cryptocurrency to prevent the information from being released. Attackers often purchase victims’ login...

/ July 12, 2023
State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2023: MSP opportunities lie ahead

State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2023: MSP opportunities lie ahead

“Cybersecurity nerds” like myself wait with bated breath for Accenture’s annual “State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2023” report to be released. This is because the report never fails to disappoint in providing a “snapshot” of the current state of cybersecurity. With such...

/ July 10, 2023
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical MOVEit vulnerability discovered

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical MOVEit vulnerability discovered

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the MOVEit Transfer software, prompting urgent action from customers to patch their systems. This flaw, identified as CVE-2023-36934, allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the affected system with elevated privileges without...

/ July 8, 2023
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: Tron captivates audiences with 15 minutes of CGI

Tech Time Warp: Tron captivates audiences with 15 minutes of CGI

As with all things technological, it’s easy to take computer-generated imagery, or CGI, for granted—or even complain about CGI, in the case of the much-maligned CGI Flounder from Disney’s recent remake of The Little Mermaid. But in this week’s Tech...

/ July 7, 2023
Financial operations: a new managed service potential?

Financial operations: a new managed service potential?

For the past decade, developers have been given free rein to consume cloud resources. Still, as more organizations encounter economic headwinds, a larger percentage are embracing financial operations (FinOps) to rein in those costs. Mixed results from this are creating...

/ July 6, 2023
Barracuda enhances MSP management capabilities with Barracuda MSP App

Barracuda enhances MSP management capabilities with Barracuda MSP App

In the recent ‘The Evolving Landscape of the MSP Business 2023’ report, Barracuda surveyed 500 managed service providers (MSPs) and knowledge workers globally to learn more about their outlook on the remainder of the year. The report highlights a handful...

/ July 5, 2023
A cybersecurity checklist to protect against ransomware

A cybersecurity checklist to protect against ransomware

July is ransomware awareness month. While ransomware has been making headlines since the late 1980s, it remains prevalent and is impacting businesses of all sizes. In the ‘2023 ransomware insights report‘, our research shows that 73 percent of the 1,350...

/ July 4, 2023
Think you’re ready to hire
Think you’re ready to hire a salesperson for your MSP? Think again.

Think you’re ready to hire a salesperson for your MSP? Think again.

I’ve got a hard truth I want to share with MSP owners: Before you hire a person to do the job, you need to master it yourself, and this is especially true with sales. I run Tech Pro Marketing, an...

/ July 4, 2023