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March 31, 2026 — 3 min read

World Backup Day: Why your digital life needs a backup

This year, World Backup Day is even more meaningful as it also marks Acronis’ 23rd birthday. World Backup Day is an annual holiday that takes place on March 31 and serves as a reminder of the importance of data backup and protection.

March 30, 2021 — 3 min read

Acronis True Image now supports Apple Silicon Macs

If you are following the IT news and especially if you're a Mac user, you surely are aware of the introduction of the first Macs with the M1 chip last November. The M1 chip is the culmination of more than a decade of Apple's work creating chips for the iPhone and the iPad. Today, we are happy to announce that Acronis True Image, the only personal cyber protection solution, now supports Apple Silicon.

August 20, 2020 — 4 min read

Acronis True Image 2021: Introducing the world’s first complete personal cyber protection solution

In today’s digital world, you can lose data in any number of ways. You can accidentally delete something you need. Your hard drive can fail. And now there’s a never-ending array of malware threats that usually start their attacks by targeting your backups so you have no way to recover. And, until now, there hasn’t been a single solution that addressed it all. With today’s release of Acronis True Image 2021, that all changes. That’s because the new Acronis True Image integrates advanced cybersecurity capabilities with our best-of-breed personal backup. The result is the world’s first complete personal cyber protection solution – purpose-built to make protection easier to manage and more affordable, while greatly improving the security of data and devices.

April 28, 2020 — 4 min read

Digital CoronaVirus: Yet Another Ransomware Combined with Infostealer

At the moment, scammers are trying to cash in by sending out emails that promise pandemic relief money. The emails impersonate official entities such as the U.S. Federal Reserve or other official institutions. With subject lines like “Receive Payment” or “Relief Payment Form”, anxious users are motivated to click on a link that redirects to a phishing website, which tries to steal personal information or online banking credentials. Other email variants use these stimulus bills as bait to deliver a password protected “COVID 19 Relief.doc” document that contains a financial trojan or ransomware. And we still see waves of classic COVID-19 themed malware threats making the rounds. One such threat example that we came across recently dropped a combination of ransomware and infostealer malware.

April 03, 2020 — 4 min read

Newest Email Scam Threatens Users with Coronavirus

It is a known fact that cybercriminals love to hijack global news headlines in order to spread their scams and increase their profits. Yet we've just seen this scare tactic reach a new moral low. Attackers are now threatening to deliberately infect people with the coronavirus.

May 15, 2019 — 2 min read

WhatsApp users' phones hacked by sophisticated spyware attack

Time to update. WhatsApp, one of the world’s most popular messaging apps, is racing to close a security flaw that could give hackers access to sensitive personal data and real-time communications. This particular type of attack is dangerous because the spyware is activated regardless of whether or not WhatsApp users answer the call. Once infected, attackers can access, modify, and sell all the personal data stored on your phone or take over control of the microphone and camera. Here's the latest and a few tips that will help minimize the threat in the future.

December 15, 2018 — 4 min read

RanSim Adds Cryptojacking Scenarios and Acronis Active Protection Continues Showing Excellent Results

We’ve blogged about RanSim before: it’s a nice tool from KnowBe4, a security awareness training company that employs the famous former hacker, Kevin Mitnick. They help people learn about IT security and prepare for various security threats. RanSim originally served as a ransomware simulator – allowing users to see if their systems were protected against ransomware attacks without the risk of the real thing. Recently, KnowBe4 updated RanSim so that it also emulates cryptojackers – the latest, fast-growing malware threat that targets computers and mobile devices to hijack system resources to secretly mine cryptocurrency – and Acronis' cyber protection technology performed extremely well.

October 23, 2018 — 4 min read

Acronis Foundation builds a new school in Tanzania for 500 children

In its continuing mission to spread and protect knowledge around the world, the Acronis Foundation marked a new milestone last week by opening a school in the small village of Loongung, Tanzania. The new school, which was built in partnership with the local community and the German-based non-profit Fly & Help, will provide more than 500 children with access to education. While Acronis funded the school and it was constructed in partnership between the Acronis Foundation and Fly & Help, ensuring the villagers retained total control over their children’s education was of the utmost importance. That is why the school building has been donated to Loongung with no strings attached.

September 26, 2018 — 9 min read

Why My iPhone Won't Backup to iCloud / iTunes ?

All over the world, countless Apple iPhone users depend on their devices to stay in touch and record important memories. And, because of the iPhone’s constant evolution over the years, owners are now storing incredible amounts of photo, video, and music data on their devices. This means, of course, that at some point, users must back up their iPhones before freeing up space for more files.

August 21, 2018 — 4 min read

Acronis True Image 2019: Delivering Easy, Efficient, Secure Cyber Protection

Acronis True Image 2019, the 15th Anniversary Edition of our personal backup solution, has just been released and for users looking for protection that keeps their data safe, accessible, private, authentic and secure, they’ll find the new release exceeds their expectations. That’s because the Anniversary Edition of Acronis True Image 2019 is designed to go beyond traditional data protection, and instead brings a new level of cyber protection that is easy-to-use, efficient, and secure to home and home office users.

April 12, 2018 — 4 min read

Leaving Facebook? Here’s How to Save Your Memories

While most people understood that they were giving up some privacy by being on the platform, few realized the digging went that deep. As a result, there’s been a groundswell of people – celebrities and non-celebrities – joining the #DeleteFacebook campaign. If you want to know how to delete your Facebook account – or are considering taking a break until you are satisfied the company has addressed users’ privacy concerns – there are a few things you should consider.

March 16, 2018 — 6 min read

Minecraft backup instructions

Knowing how to backup Minecraft worlds also makes it easy to play Minecraft wherever you go – you can simply recover your maps to any new PC and continue playing from where you left off.

February 28, 2018 — 10 min read

Black Ruby: Combining Ransomware and Coin Miner Malware

In the midst of all the news and hype surrounding cryptocurrency, we’ve seen several coin miner malware programs popping into the wild, infecting a number of computers on the internet. There’s been an upsurge in coin miner malware that victimizes individual PCs and businesses using the same techniques and exploits that were previously attributed to distributed ransomware. With all this happening, the cybersecurity industry started speculating that there is a shift from ransomware to coin miners as the preferred choice of payload for cybercriminals. Interestingly, we found a new ransomware called Black Ruby that adds coin mining as a module on top of its ransomware capabilities.

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