O dono da empresa de recuperação de ransomware MonsterCloud foi acusado de fraudar vítimas ao pagar secretamente aos atacantes por chaves de descriptografia enquanto afirmava usar tecnologia própria para recuperar os dados, segundo o BleepingComputer.
O dono da empresa de recuperação de ransomware MonsterCloud foi acusado de fraudar vítimas ao pagar secretamente aos atacantes por chaves de descriptografia enquanto afirmava usar tecnologia própria para recuperar os dados, segundo o BleepingComputer.
Em contexto
- Tema: Ciberseguridad — Riesgo, identidad, respuesta a incidentes y cumplimiento.
- Fonte: CISO Advisor
- Publicado: 09/10/2026
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Why it matters
In security the story is rarely the attack. It is the time between the intrusion and somebody noticing. That number says more about an organisation than any certificate hanging on the reception wall.
I separate technical risk from business risk, because they do not always match. A critical vulnerability in an isolated system matters less than a medium one in the system that issues invoices. Prioritising by severity without looking at where the money is is an expensive way to work hard and protect little.
What usually goes wrong
What I see fail most is the backup. It is configured, it runs every night, nobody checks it. The day you need to restore, it turns out it had been failing silently for four months, or that everything was backed up except exactly what was needed. A backup never restored is an assumption.
What to watch
- How long it took to detect, usually the most revealing metric in the whole case.
- Whether initial access came from a legitimate account handled badly, which is the most frequent pattern.
- What could be restored and how fast — a backup that was never tested does not count.
How I read this entry
What I would review this very week is access: accounts belonging to people who left, permissions that grew without anyone trimming them, and shared credentials everybody swears do not exist. It is the least glamorous work and the one that cuts off the most attacks.
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