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Satellite broadcast provider and TV giant Dish Network has finally confirmed that a ransomware attack was the cause of a multi-day network and service outage that started on Friday.As BleepingComputer reported, this widespread outage hit Dish.com, the Dish Anywhere app, Boost Mobile, and other websites and networks owned and operated by Dish Network.

In an email to The Register on Monday morning, a Dish spokesperson said the satellite TV company is working to restore all of its systems "As quickly as possible," but declined to answer questions about whether the outage was due to a ransomware infection, as has been widely speculated on social media. "We experienced a systems issue with our corporate network on February 23 that is affecting our internal servers and telephone systems, and the issue is being investigated," the Dish spokesperson said.

Web hosting services provider GoDaddy on Friday disclosed a multi-year security breach that enabled unknown threat actors to install malware and siphon source code related to some of its services. GoDaddy said in December 2022, it received an unspecified number of customer complaints about their websites getting sporadically redirected to malicious sites, which it later found was due to the unauthorized third party gaining access to servers hosted in its cPanel environment.

Web hosting giant GoDaddy says unknown attackers have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment. While GoDaddy discovered the security breach in early December 2022 following customer reports that their sites were being used to redirect to random domains, the attackers had access to the company's network for multiple years.

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Ransomware vs. Multi-Cloud: How to Protect Multi-Cloud Environments From the Next AttackThough the scale and economics of the cloud are a boon for today's enterprise, moving applications and data out of the data center into multi-cloud environments has greatly expanded threat surfaces, putting enterprises at greater risk of devastating ransomware attacks. This report will explore how to move beyond segmentation inside the data center and traditional next-gen firewalls at the perimeter and build a defense that meets the special demands of a multi-cloud environment.

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"It's a huge threat because it bypasses the security measures put in place by an organization, including one of the most effective, which is MFA," Sami Elhini, biometrics specialist at Cerberus Sentinel, told The Register. The attacks on MFA come as businesses, with the COVID-19 pandemic lifting, are adopting cloud-first and zero-trust models, which often rely on MFA to protect data and applications, Stephanie Aceves, senior director of products management at Tanium, told The Register.