Hosting firm says it lost all customer data after ransomware attack
www.bleepingcomputer.com
Danish hosting firms CloudNordic and AzeroCloud have suffered ransomware attacks, causing the loss of the majority of customer data and forcing the hosting providers to shut down all systems, including websites, email, and customer sites.

Hi all,

As self-hosting is not just “home-hosting” I guess this post should also be on-topic here.

Beginning of the year, bleeping-computers published an interesting post on the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2023.

Item 13 is an interesing one. (see URL of this post). Summary in short A Danish cloud-provider gets hit by a ransomware attack, encrypting not only the clients data, but also the backups.

For a user, this means that a senario where, not only your VM becomes unusable (virtual disk-storage is encrypted), but also the daily backups you made to the cloud-provider S3-storage is useless, might be not as far-fetches then what your think.

So … conclussion ??? If you have VMs at a cloud-provider and do daily backups, it might be usefull to actually get your storage for these backups from a different provider then the one where your house your VMs.

Anybody any ideas or remarks on this?

(*) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-biggest-cybersecurity-and-cyberattack-stories-of-2023/

    • @Z3k3English
      14•11 months ago

      Indeed. The reaction from our customers was hilarious after our development team released a public statement stating we weren’t vulnerable to the big log4j exploit because the version they used was so old that feature didn’t exist yet

      • @[email protected]English
        1•11 months ago

        “We are not vulnerable to this exploit, but we are vulnerable to these ~300 other exploits because we don’t update our crap!”

        Impressive!

        • @Z3k3English
          1•11 months ago

          The customer base was less impressed. I was just dumbfounded

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      What was that saying again?

      “the biggest thread to the safety and cybersecurity of the citizens of a country … are managers who think that cybersecurity is just a number on an exellsheet”

      (I don’t know where I read this, but I think it really hits the nail on the head)

      • limonfiestaEnglish
        3•11 months ago

        Security expenditures are just numbers on an Excel sheet, just like HR, and legal…it’s a business.

        You know what else is a big threat? Executives of cost-center departments not understanding how to articulate their needs in terms of profit, or profit loss.

        HR and legal departments are generally much better at explaining their concerns and needs in terms of profit, and not abstract concepts i.e. security.