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February 11, 2026 — 14 min read
What is the best PC antivirus for 2026: Acronis True Image vs. competitors
February 11, 2026 — 14 min read
What is the best PC antivirus for 2026: Acronis True Image vs. competitors
Best PC antivirus for 2026: Acronis True Image vs. Norton, Bitdefender, McAfee and Kaspersky
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.
January 22, 2018 — 6 min read
Paradise Ransomware strikes again
January 22, 2018 — 6 min read
Paradise Ransomware strikes again
The Paradise ransomware that was seen in September 2017 is back, launching a new round of attacks in early January. This strain provides an unbreakable encryption scheme by using the RSA cipher for file encryption – an unusual cipher choice that makes fighting this strain even more challenging. Here’s a complete analysis of Paradise ransomware so you know what you’re facing, and how you can avoid it.
November 28, 2017 — 13 min read
Power User Insights: Advanced WinPE/RE Driver Injection in Acronis Media Builder
November 28, 2017 — 13 min read
Power User Insights: Advanced WinPE/RE Driver Injection in Acronis Media Builder
Make sure all of your devices are ready to work, even when booting using WinPE/RE recovery media. Acronis True Image 2018 features a WinPE/RE-based environment for Recovery Media, which includes the ability to add drivers for those instances when required drivers are not found in the default Windows Driver Store. Here’s a quick “how to” article on driver injection using the Advanced option of the Acronis Media Builder tool.
November 22, 2017 — 3 min read
Acronis Builds a Primary School in a Remote Village in Myanmar
November 22, 2017 — 3 min read
Acronis Builds a Primary School in a Remote Village in Myanmar
In case you missed it, last week Acronis’ founder and CEO Serg Bell travelled to Myanmar to open a new primary school in the small village of  Ata, Kyauk Padaung Township, some 200 km North of the country’s capital Naypyidaw. The entire village came together to celebrate this momentous occasion. National costumes, balloons, dancing, and a talent show filled the day with excitement and new hope for local children.
November 17, 2017 — 2 min read
Protecting Mac OS X From Ransomware: Acronis Active Protection 2.0
November 17, 2017 — 2 min read
Protecting Mac OS X From Ransomware: Acronis Active Protection 2.0
In the last couple of years, which will be remembered as the years of ransomware, we saw a lot of cases where individuals and companies were hit by this nasty type of malware. But ransomware was mainly targeting their Windows operating systems. This is wrong to think, however, that cybercriminals are only interested in Windows users: Mac users are in danger too.
November 14, 2017 — 11 min read
Locky Empire Strikes Back
November 14, 2017 — 11 min read
Locky Empire Strikes Back
Locky is one of the most widespread and active ransomware families on the malicious threats landscape. There is a new version that just appeared a couple of days ago. It’s being delivered by the Necurs botnet through SPAM emails containing Microsoft Word macros exploiting the Microsoft’s Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). DDE is a Windows feature that handles the electronic transfer of MS Office files using shared memory and data.