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Report 2023: Massive email attacks
Report 2023: Massive email attacks

The Email Security Trends Report 2023 shows that attacks in the DACH region are above average at 81 percent. The greatest impact of successful attacks was the loss of sensitive, confidential or business-critical data. The follow-up costs of a cyber attack via e-mail can be extremely expensive for companies and on average well exceed one million dollars. This is shown by an international study commissioned by cloud security specialist Barracuda Networks and now published in its “Email Security Trends 2023” report. 75 percent of businesses worldwide have been the victim of at least one successful email attack in the last 12 months.

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Email Protection in Amazon Security Lake by AWS
Barracuda News

Cloud security specialist Barracuda announces the integration of its email security solution Barracuda Email Protection with Amazon Security Lake from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Combined, both offerings can reduce the complexity and cost of accessing security-related data from an email security solution for customers and address a variety of security applications such as threat detection, investigation, and incident response. Security data lake from cloud and on-premises Barracuda Email Protection users can use Amazon Security Lake to build a security data lake from integrated cloud and on-premises data sources, as well as from their personal applications. With the support…

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New solutions for Zero Trust and Managed XDR
Barracuda News

Barracuda announces updates to Email Protection, Zero Trust Access, Data Protection and Managed XDR. Cloud security specialist offers customers and partners a comprehensive, easy-to-use and efficient solution portfolio. Cloud security specialist Barracuda announces several important product innovations in the areas of email security, zero trust access, managed XDR and data protection. The numerous new functions protect against ongoing and evolving cyber threats such as ransomware and help customers to solve complex digital transformation challenges. Zero Trust Access As part of Barracuda's SASE platform, Barracuda CloudGen Access now includes web security with the…

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Ransomware Report: Extremely Widespread Attacks
Ransomware Report: Extremely Widespread Attacks

The new ransomware report from Barracuda shows: In addition to attacks on the classic industries, criminals are now increasingly targeting service providers, automotive, hospitality, media, retail, software and technology. Cloud security specialist Barracuda has released its fourth annual report on the evolution of ransomware threats. The current report covers attack patterns from August 2021 to July 2022. Since the attack on Ukraine began, the goal of many high-profile cyberattacks has shifted from purely financial gain for the attackers to causing as much disruption and damage as possible. The amount of…

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AWS Competency Status for Web Application Firewall
Barracuda News

Barracuda again earns AWS Competency status for its Web Application Firewall (WAF). In addition to the CloudGen Firewall, the Barracuda WAF now also has the status. Barracuda has again received Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency status in the Application Security category. The award proves that the cloud security specialist has reliable technology and in-depth expertise and can provide solutions seamlessly on AWS. Barracuda Web Application Firewall has held AWS Security Competency status since 2016. In order to earn this status, Barracuda WAF had to solve extensive security requirements and demonstrate specific application protection measures - the latter with...

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Report on the state of IIoT and OT security
Report on the state of IIoT and OT security

Network and cloud security specialist Barracuda publishes its report on the state of IIoT and OT security "The State of Industrial Security in 2022". Manufacturing and health care bring up the rear when it comes to completed security projects. 800 IIoT/OT managers answered the survey. Cloud security specialist Barracuda surveyed 800 senior IIoT/OT managers worldwide about their experiences and views regarding IIOT/OT security in their companies. Barracuda presents the findings on IIoT/OT security projects, implementation challenges, security incidents and technology investments as well as topics related to cyber security risks with the current report The State of Industrial Security in 2022. KRITIS increasingly as a target of attack Critical infrastructures are increasingly being targeted by…

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Phishing trap: Malicious HTML attachments in emails
Phishing trap: Malicious HTML attachments in emails

HTML attachments are commonly used in email communication. They are particularly common in system-generated e-mail reports that users receive in order to be directed to the actual report via a link. Dangerous: because this is where malicious phishing links are hiding more and more often. In this way, companies can protect themselves better. A comment from Dr. Klaus Gheri, General Manager Network Security at Barracuda. In an attack, hackers often take advantage of this form of email, embedding HTML attachments in emails disguised as reports to trick victims into clicking phishing links. So can…

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Attacks on the zero-day vulnerability in Confluence
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

After the zero-day vulnerability – now known as CVE-2022-26134 – was exposed in Atlassian's collaboration tool Confluence, attackers attempt to exploit it in a targeted manner. The attacks come mainly from Russia, USA, India, Netherlands and Germany. Confluence touts “the remote-ready workspace for your team, where knowledge and collaboration meet.” This work is currently endangered by a security vulnerability. Security analysts from Barracuda have now analyzed data from the cloud security specialist's worldwide installations and have identified an increasing number of attempted attacks via the vulnerability. These range from harmless intentions to some more complex attempts to infect systems with DDoS botnet malware and cryptominers...

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More protection for Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)
More protection for Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)

Barracuda introduces new Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) capabilities. New technology integration with Venafi Trust Protection Platform. Added to this is the continuously automated API detection with machine learning. Barracuda announces the expansion of its Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) platform Barracuda Cloud Application Protection. The new platform release adds powerful new automated API discovery and GraphQL security features, expands account takeover protection capabilities, and improves the functionality of client-side protection. Automated management of machine identities In addition, the integration of the Barracuda Web Application Firewall and the Venafi Trust Protection Platform, which…

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