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\u200b<\/span>In what has become a regular feature here at IT Pro<\/em>, we’re back again to take a look at some of the year’s most dramatic security stories, many of which were scarily similar to those we saw in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What’s\u00a0clear is that businesses continue to face the same old threats, although you’ll see from our picks that there are plenty of examples of attackers using ingenious methods to breach systems.<\/p>\n

Here’s our pick of 2019’s scariest security stories.<\/p>\n

VFEmail’s nightmare year<\/h2>\n
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The first entry on our list, and one of the earliest of 2019, involved an attack on US email provider VFEmail<\/a>. In what was described as a catastrophic breach on VFEmail’s systems in February, the company’s infrastructure had been virtually wiped out overnight, with every disk on every server, including its backups, being destroyed.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most chilling part of the story is that there appeared to be no apparent motive behind the attack and that VFEmail may have been targetted randomly. No ransom was ever offered in exchange for the data, nor was there any evidence that the attacker was even interested in stealing the data.<\/p>\n

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We were under DDOS attack this weekend. If you received 'Unable to connect to server' warnings, that's an unfortunate side-effect of Cloudflare's active protection. Though without it, the site was completely inaccessible.<\/p>\n

— VFEmail.net (@VFEmail) October 21, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n