Results for: ransomware

Ransomware driving backup and recovery conversations for MSPs
Backup and recovery may not have always been the sexiest of IT topics, but thanks to the rise of ransomware it is now one of the hottest. The single most effective defense against ransomware is an ability to recover an...

Cerber ransomware targets Microsoft Office 365 users
First identified back in March, Cerber ransomware made headlines again recently after reportedly targeting Microsoft Office 365 users through a large-scale zero-day attack. Outside estimates say the email was sent to millions of Office 365 users and that it took...

Ransomware exposes poor data management hygiene
As ransomware attacks continue to proliferate, the soft underbelly of IT — how organizations often manage their data in a cavalier manner — is finally being exposed. Ransomware combines social engineering techniques, malware, and encryption to take an organization’s data hostage. As...

Samsam and Petya: The New Wave of Ransomware
Malware development, like any other area in IT, is a hotbed of innovation and change. At the forefront of this trend are the groups responsible for developing ransomware applications such as TeslaCrypt and Cryptowall. Today’s news brings two new challengers:...

TeslaCrypt 4.0 ransomware ups the ante with unbreakable encryption
When TeslaCrypt first arrived on the ransomware scene about a year ago, it seemed like a CryptoLocker copycat with a few new tricks, such as renaming existing files, deleting browser history to hide the source of the infection, and a...

KeRanger brings ransomware to the Mac
Not too long ago one of the benefits of using a Macintosh for work was that there wasn’t enough of these systems in place to make it worthwhile for hackers to target them. Fast forward to today, and the growing...

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical Veeam vulnerability
Veeam has released security patches to address a critical vulnerability in its Backup & Replication software, identified as CVE-2025-23121. The flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code under certain conditions. Review the details of this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory...

Unraveling the cybersecurity risks of LLMs
As language learning models (LLMs) become more prevalent, the cyber dangers posed by DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Claude, and others are just beginning to be understood. Jacob Anderson, owner of Beyond Ordinary, states that cyber personnel are overworked and continue to have...

How MSPs can fuel faster growth with AI + cold outreach
Dave leads a B2B services firm with a dedicated sales team of three. Over the past year, they’ve invested time and resources into cold outreach, hiring sales reps, and launching marketing campaigns. Despite these efforts, the results have been underwhelming,...