📊 2023 OpenText Cybersecurity Threat Report
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More awards for WebrootFebruary was a good month for outside recognition. In addition to several awards for product efficacy, we were especially proud for individual Webroot contributors to be recognized for their commitment to going above and beyond for our customers.Webroot earned a AAA rating for Small Business Endpoint Protection Oct-Dec 2020 from SE Labs. Two Webroot products were also named to Expert Insights' "Best-Of" category: Webroot Business Endpoint Protection and Webroot Security Awareness Training. Rounding out our awards for the February edition of What's New, we're honored to announce that we've taken home four Stevie awards for Outstanding Customer Service.From the Carbonite sideOur data backup experts at Carbonite churned out a couple of great webinars in February, touching on how small business data is at risk and the top reasons for backing up Microsoft 365 data. You can access the webinars any time through the links below.Your Business Data is at Risk – Learn the m
As mentioned in a previous post, cybersecurity experts widely believe the SolarWinds attack will inspire other supply chain attacks with similarly devastating consequences for all types of businesses. In that initial statement on our Community page, we promised to expand on our tips for protecting your business or clients from the inevitable fallout of future attacks.That protection starts with contextual, actionable threat intelligence. Maybe it’s not the flashiest of defense tactics, but the basics still matter. While other security vendors may have marked SolarWind's Orion updates as coming from a trusted partner, the right threat intelligence feeds could have prevented further communication with the C2 server used in the attack.In the case of the Webroot BrightCloud Threat Intelligence platform, an IP address involved in the attack had been associated with a botnet and categorized as high-risk in the summer of last year Properly configured, our security tools would have blocked com
By now visitors to the Webroot Community will certainly have heard about the SolarWinds attack at the end of last year. From the earliest news, it was clear that this was no ordinary cyberattack, both because of who was targeted and how the attack was carried out.While many details remain unknown, we know that the IT management platform SolarWinds was the subject of a cyberattack that spread to its clients and went undetected for months. The attackers were essentially able to Trojanize a SolarWinds update, known as Orion, allowing them to collect data on machines that had the update installed.The Cybersecurity Infrastructure & Security Agency (CISA) first disclosed the attack on December 13, 2020. While many believe the attack was state sponsored, many of the specifics have yet to be confirmed.We post this not to sling mud at anyone in our industry, but because supply chain attacks like this one will certainly be replicated and we owe it to our customers and partners to advise on t
Updated - 03/09/21 - Carbonite recently won the People’s Choice Award Since 2002, the Gold Stevie Award for sales and customer service has been conferred for achievement in business to organizations and individuals in more than 60 nations. We’re pleased to announce that Carbonite has been honored with five of these awards in 2021.Below are details on each of the awards.GOLD STEVIE WINNERCustomer Service Department of the Year – Computer Software – 100 or more employees This category recognizes everyone who works formally in customer service in an organization, regardless of their role or location.GOLD STEVIE WINNERContact Center Professional of the Year: Craig Becerril, Lead Technical Support Specialist This category acknowledges the achievements of non-executive professionals who work in a call or contact center.BRONZE STEVIE WINNERContact Center of the Year (Over 100 Seats) – Technology IndustriesThis category measures call and contact centers that have more than 100 seats in technol
Once again, cyber resilience solutions from Webroot have been named among Expert Insights’ “Best-Of” award winners. This time, our 2021 awards are in the Endpoint Security and Security Awareness Training categories and we couldn’t be more proud!Expert Insights’ Best-Of awards recognize innovative cybersecurity solutions that provide powerful protection for their customers. Awards are chosen by Expert Insights’ independent technical expert and editorial content team, based on product features, ease of use and market presence.Here’s some more info on the categories we won, as well as some of the nice things the folks at Expert Insights had to say about our products.Best-Of Endpoint SecurityThis category includes the top vendors that offer the means to protect all of an organization’s endpoints from malware and malicious applications and investigate security incidents and alerts. “Webroot’s SMB customers praise it for its ‘lightweight’ and ‘effective’ endpoint protection. They argue that
Cloud service and cloud application usage are both steadily rising throughout both enterprise and small-to-medium sized businesses. Organizations are increasingly turning to Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) and other technology and security vendors to address cloud service risks, enforce security policies, and comply with regulations, even when cloud services are beyond their perimeter and out of their direct control. Webroot® BrightCloud Cloud Service Intelligence enables our partners to enforce data-centric security policies to prevent unwanted interactions with cloud services and associated applications by providing cloud application-specific threat intelligence. Through a suite of three components – Cloud Application Classification, Cloud Application Function, and Cloud Application Reputation – partners are able identify, classify, and control access based on the application’s classification, function, and reputation score. Benefits of BrightCloud Cloud Service Intelligence fo
Everyone loves gifts for the holidays. And Webroot and Carbonite customers are no different! We’re giving away a new gift every day during our special 12 Days of Gifts holiday promotion. All you have to do is follow, reply, share, retweet, like or sign up for a new account and you’ll be automatically entered.Here’s what we’re giving away: 12 Days Of Gifts:Day 1: Set of 4 figurines and group buttonDay 2: Notebook and penDay 3: Tote bag and padfolioDay 4: Lunch bagDay 5: Glass cleaner and webcam coverDay 6: SocksDay 7: Power bank and PopSocketDay 8: Tech pouchDay 9: Sticky notes and fidget spinner penDay 10: Hand sanitizerDay 11: Special edition gold MalwareWolf + buttonDay 12: Set of 4 figurines and group button To be eligible to enter all you have to do is:Sign up for a Webroot Community account. Leave a relevant comment about the subject matter to the “12 Days of Gifts” article (comment below) on the Community; or Leave a relevant comment about the subject matter to the Modular Malwa
DetailsOpenText™ has been following the SolarWinds Sunburst attack campaign closely since it was disclosed on December 13, 2020.To help reduce the risk to our customers, we continue to proactively review our systems to assess any potential impact of the issues described in the SolarWinds Security Advisory.As part of Webroot® BrightCloud® Threat Intelligence, we were able to ensure the reported indicators of compromise (IOCs) including URLs, IP addresses, and file hashes were marked as threats in our databases within 24 hours of being shared with the broader security community. This means our network of BrightCloud Threat Intelligence partners, our Webroot MSP partners and our Webroot end users are protected against these known malicious IOCs. Webroot Secure Anywhere is positioned to quarantine known malicious file hashes for removal.On December 14, Microsoft sinkholed the main C2 server used for communications for the threat campaign, "avsvmcloud[.]com". Following our sinkhole policy,
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COVID-19 has created significant challenges in communities around the world. Heading into the holiday season, we know that demand for food banks has increased, while at the same time it has been more challenging to hold food drives and campaigns.“Due to the pandemic, we’ve seen a 35% increase in need for food assistance — a need we project to continue into 2021 and beyond. In order to meet the increase in demand, we’ve had to purchase an enormous amount of food,” said Kim Da Silva, executive director of the Colorado-based Community Food Share.To play our part in addressing this issue, Webroot parent company OpenText will donate $1 million USD, roughly 4 million meals, to community foodbanks this Holiday Season. In lieu of holiday parties, each office has identified a local foodbank to receive these donations.“This donation will help us acquire, coordinate, and distribute safe and nutritious food to people in need in Waterloo Region and South Western Ontario, especially during a time wh
COVID-19 has absolutely dominated headlines this year, so it’s of no surprise that criminals have taken advantage of this to where most of the threat landscape this year is also heavily COVID-19 related. While this list may define payloads into different categories of malware, note that many of these bad actor groups contract work from others. This will allow each group to specialize on their respective payload and perfect it. This criminal underground community working together is what makes the threat landscape as nasty as ever.Ransomware continues to dominate headlines of breaches and the amount of devastation they cause. The average ransom payment is now over $175k and looks to clear $200k before the end of the year. Not only are most ransomware campaigns specifically targeting businesses over consumers, but some of them are now leaking your data if you decide not to pay the ransom. This is done so that if the victim tries to not pay the ransom and sweep it under the rug, they will
Great news! Webroot has been recognized as one of Britain’s Best by e-ChannelNews in the following categories:Best Channel Partner Support During the Pandemic Best IT Security Vendor Top 10 Cloud VendorsWe couldn’t have done it without our valued Partners and supporters like you.So, thanks! We’re especially proud of this prestigious award because it’s the only industry award that’s 100% voted on by Britain’s channel partners. We want you to know that we value our partnership and appreciate the opportunity to help protect the environments you manage from numerous cyber threats.Thanks for your continued partnership. And for voting for us!2020 Britain's 50 Best Managed IT Companies Awards Ceremony
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Welcome to this year’s Nastiest Malware Q&A with our security analyst, Tyler Moffitt.Today, he’ll be available to answer your questions on the latest malware featured in our latest Nastiest Malware list. For a quick refresher, you can check out our infographic too.To get answers to your questions, just ask away in the comments below.Go back to the Nastiest Malware Hub
3 in 10 workers worldwide have clicked a phishing link in the past year. In the US, it’s 1 in 3.With the massive increase in remote work due to COVID-19, there has also been an explosion in cybercriminal activity like phishing. Not only is phishing still prevalent, but it continues to be on the rise. In fact, more than 1 in 4 Americans has received a phishing email related to the pandemic.Why are people still clicking?For our new report, COVID-19 Clicks: How Phishing Capitalized on a Global Crisis, we surveyed 7,000 office workers in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia/New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy and Japan on their understanding of phishing, their email and click habits, and how their online lives have changed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We then worked with Dr. Prashanth Rajivan, assistant professor at the University of Washington and expert in human behavior and cybersecurity, to get his take on why phishing still works.According to Dr. Rajivan, what
