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December 08, 2025 — 2 min read
Synology x Acronis partner to deliver True Image with BeeDrive and BeeStation NAS
December 08, 2025 — 2 min read
Synology x Acronis partner to deliver True Image with BeeDrive and BeeStation NAS
Synology and Acronis announced a joint collaboration to enhance customer data security. All Synology BeeDrive, BeeStation, and BeeStation Plus product lines now include a three-year license to Acronis True Image Essentials for one computer*. This partnership enables users to perform full-system computer backups while maintaining complete ownership and control of their data through local storage.
January 28, 2025 — 3 min read
Data privacy survey: Consumers worry about data but don’t do enough to protect it
January 28, 2025 — 3 min read
Data privacy survey: Consumers worry about data but don’t do enough to protect it
The Acronis Data Privacy in 2025 Survey results reveal a significant gap between consumers’ awareness of data security and their actual practices.
August 29, 2023 — 9 min read
Internet safety for kids - Parents’ Ultimate Guide
August 29, 2023 — 9 min read
Internet safety for kids - Parents’ Ultimate Guide
Internet Safety for Kids full guide and tips! Learn about kids internet safety and Keep Your Children Safe Online. Click Now for Tips! 📚👩‍👧💻 #OnlineSecurity
August 17, 2023 — 7 min read
Online Gaming Risks: How To Protect Yourself and Loved Ones
August 17, 2023 — 7 min read
Online Gaming Risks: How To Protect Yourself and Loved Ones
Discover the hidden dangers of online gaming with strangers and how to protect yourself from online gaming risks to guarantee a safe and secure experience
April 28, 2020 — 4 min read
Digital CoronaVirus: Yet Another Ransomware Combined with Infostealer
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
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
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
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
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.
August 21, 2018 — 4 min read
Acronis True Image 2019: Delivering Easy, Efficient, Secure Cyber Protection
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
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.
February 28, 2018 — 10 min read
Black Ruby: Combining Ransomware and Coin Miner Malware
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.
January 29, 2018 — 8 min read
Rapid Ransomware Keeps Encrypting New Files in Background
January 29, 2018 — 8 min read
Rapid Ransomware Keeps Encrypting New Files in Background
The Rapid ransomware variant began attacking victims at the end of December 2017, according to the ID ransomware service Malwarehunterteam. This ransomware strain is interesting and unique because it keeps running even after encryption is completed, and continues encrypting files once they are created. Our team analyzed a new sample that was compiled a week ago.