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The threat posed by ransomware remains one of the biggest security headaches for organizations, accounting for 25 percent of observed security incidents and present in 70 percent of all malware infections, according to a Verizon report published earlier this year. \u00ae<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Organizations are being warned about a wave of attacks targeting Microsoft SQL Server with ransomware known as Fargo, which encrypts files and threatens victims that their data may be published online if they do not pay up. The warning comes in a blog posting from analysts at the AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC), which …<\/p>\n
SQL Server admins warned to watch for Fargo ransomware \u2022 The Register<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33950,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lockbit-ransomware-abuses-windows-defender-to-deploy-cobalt-strike-payload\/","url_meta":{"origin":79449,"position":0},"title":"LockBit Ransomware Abuses Windows Defender to Deploy Cobalt Strike Payload","date":"August 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A threat actor associated with the LockBit 3.0 ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation has been observed abusing the Windows Defender command-line tool to decrypt and load Cobalt Strike payloads. 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