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Deal Would Boost Veeam's Cyber Footprint as Data Protection Vendor Valuations SurgeBloomberg reported that data protection and ransomware recovery giant Veeam is in advanced talks to buy DSPM and AI security vendor Securiti for $1.8 billion, with an announcement coming as soon as this week. The deal would accelerate Veeam's pivot from backup and disaster recovery to cybersecurity.

Akira Ransomware Hackers Targeting SonicWall DevicesFirewall maker SonicWall said Friday all customers who used its cloud backup services are at increased "risk of targeted attacks" following a recent cyberattack. The California firm in September disclosed that unidentified hackers launched brute-force attacks against servers storing backup files.

Akira Ransomware Hackers Targeting SonicWall DevicesFirewall maker SonicWall said Friday all customers who used its cloud backup services are at increased "risk of targeted attacks" following a recent cyberattack. The California firm in September disclosed that unidentified hackers launched brute-force attacks against servers storing backup files.

SonicWall said a breach it disclosed last month affected firewall configuration files for all customers who have used SonicWall’s cloud backup service — up from its previous 5% estimate.

Microsoft announced this week the general availability of Windows Backup for Organizations, a new enterprise-grade backup tool that helps simplify backups and makes the transition to Windows 11 easier. [...]

SonicWall has confirmed that all customers that used the company's cloud backup service are affected by the security breach last month. [...]

SonicWall on Wednesday disclosed that an unauthorized party accessed firewall configuration backup files for all customers who have used the cloud backup service

Affects users regardless of when their backups were created SonicWall has admitted that all customers who used its cloud backup service to store firewall configuration files were affected by a cybersecurity incident first disclosed in mid-September, walking back earlier assurances that only a small fraction of users were impacted.…

SonicWall said that a threat actor has accessed files containing encrypted credentials and configuration data for all customers who have used its cloud backup service

Deal Would Boost Veeam's Cyber Footprint as Data Protection Vendor Valuations SurgeBloomberg reported that data protection and ransomware recovery giant Veeam is in advanced talks to buy DSPM and AI security vendor Securiti for $1.8 billion, with an announcement coming as soon as this week. The deal would accelerate Veeam's pivot from backup and disaster recovery to cybersecurity.