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Cyber attacks: Cities and municipalities increasingly targeted

September 1, 2023

Attacks on municipalities, healthcare and education have doubled since August 2022. This is what the Barracuda ransomware report reports. Barracuda has released the results of its fifth annual ransomware report. As the basis for the report, the cloud security specialist identified and analyzed 175 publicly reported attacks from the last 12 months. A worrying finding of the report is that successful ransomware attacks in the three social sectors of municipalities, education and healthcare have more than quadrupled since 2021. Attacks on finance are declining. Attacks on cities and municipalities increased between August 2022 and July...

DACH: 55 percent victims of spear phishing

July 3, 2023

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In the DACH region, 55 percent of companies have been victims of a spear phishing attack in the last 12 months, according to the new Barracuda Networks Spear Phishing Trends Report 2023. DACH was thus slightly above the average in an international comparison (50 percent). In addition, 24 percent of all companies had at least one email account affected by an account takeover. Cyber criminals send an average of 370 malicious emails from each compromised account. The report includes Barracuda spear phishing data and analysis based on a dataset covering 50 billion emails across 3,5 million mailboxes, including nearly 30 million spear phishing emails. In addition…

Barracuda trades malware-affected ESGs for free

June 20, 2023

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Attackers recently exploited a vulnerability in Barracuda Email Security Gateways (ESG). In some cases, the attackers were able to place malware that is still active after an update. Barracuda informs affected customers and even replaces the ESGs free of charge. In a statement, Barracuda explains the situation regarding security gaps and Email Security Gateway (ESG). The detailed vulnerability described is explained under CVE-2023-2868. The provided update is also recommended there. In addition, security specialist Mandiant investigated the incident and wrote an interesting blog post. In it, Mandiant leads…

Barracuda: Replace attacked ESG hardware

June 12, 2023

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The otherwise secure Barracuda Email Security Gateway Appliances (ESG) have a problem: In mid-May 2023, Barracuda identified the vulnerability (CVE-2023-28681) on their appliances, which was actively attacked. However, the existing security update is not able to close backdoors created by malware. Barracuda therefore recommends immediate hardware replacement. Initially, as with many vulnerabilities found, all started: On May 18, 2023, Barracuda was made aware of anomalous traffic originating from Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances. The very next day, Barracuda identified the vulnerability (CVE-2023-28681) which was already being actively exploited....

New corporate email phishing tactics

24 May 2023

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Cyber criminals are constantly introducing new techniques and tactics in their phishing attacks to fool victims and bypass security measures. Barracuda has identified three new phishing tactics used by cybercriminals: Google Translate phishing, image phishing, and special character attacks. After analyzing data on phishing emails in January 2023, Barracuda security researchers have identified three new phishing tactics being used by cybercriminals: attacks that abuse Google Translate links, attacks with image attachments, and attacks using special characters. Safety instructions from Dr. Klaus Gheri, Vice President & General Manager Network Security at Barracuda Networks. New phishing emails still rare, but sophisticated Also...

Organizations are repeatedly victims of ransomware attacks

3 May 2023

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According to the Barracuda report “Ransomware Insights 2023” one thing is certain: once is never. A majority of businesses fall victim to ransomware attacks repeatedly. 73 percent of global businesses affected by ransomware in 2022 were attacked more times. 43 percent in the DACH region. In its global report "Ransomware Insights 2023", Barracuda presented interesting evaluations. It shows that 73 percent of the companies surveyed report having been hit by at least one successful ransomware attack in 2022. 38 percent say they have been the victim of an attack twice or more. The companies that have been attacked multiple times…

Report 2023: Massive email attacks

March 10, 2023

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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.

Email Protection in Amazon Security Lake by AWS

2 January 2023

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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…

New solutions for Zero Trust and Managed XDR

8 October 2022

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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…

Ransomware Report: Extremely Widespread Attacks

September 17, 2022

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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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Cyber attacks: Cities and municipalities increasingly targeted

DACH: 55 percent victims of spear phishing

Barracuda trades malware-affected ESGs for free

Barracuda: Replace attacked ESG hardware

New corporate email phishing tactics

Organizations are repeatedly victims of ransomware attacks

Report 2023: Massive email attacks

Email Protection in Amazon Security Lake by AWS

New solutions for Zero Trust and Managed XDR

Ransomware Report: Extremely Widespread Attacks

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