Backups Ransomware System Administration 
Krebs on Security
JUNE 9, 2020
that their information technology systems had been infiltrated by hackers who specialize in deploying ransomware. Nevertheless, on Friday, June 5, the intruders sprang their attack, deploying ransomware and demanding nearly $300,000 worth of bitcoin. The average ransomware payment by ransomware strain.
Spinone
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
When someone asks you about the best ransomware protection , the first thing you’ll probably come up with is a backup. After all, backup is the only security practice that actually can get your infected data back. Ransomware can infect backups. Can Ransomware Encrypt Backups?
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Malwarebytes
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Ransomware attacks, despite dramatically increasing in frequency this summer , remain opaque for many potential victims. It isn’t anyone’s fault, necessarily, since news articles about ransomware attacks often focus on the attack, the suspected threat actors, the ransomware type, and, well, not much else.
Malwarebytes
MARCH 31, 2023
Backups are an organization's last line of defense against ransomware, because comprehensive, offline, offsite backups give you a chance to restore or rebuild your computers without paying a criminal for a decryption key. Unfortunately, many organizations don't realize how important it is to make backups until it's too late.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the darknet website for the Snatch ransomware group was leaking data about its users and the crime gang’s internal operations. It continues: “Prior to deploying the ransomware, Snatch threat actors were observed spending up to three months on a victim’s system.
Krebs on Security
MAY 13, 2024
and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. Last week, the United States joined the U.K. NeroWolfe’s introductory post to the forum Verified in Oct. “P.S.
Malwarebytes
JULY 7, 2021
Only rarely do companies allow us a look inside their organization while they are recovering from a ransomware attack. The attack used a zero-day vulnerability to create a malicious Kasaya VSA update, which spread REvil ransomware to some of the MSPs that use it, and then on to the customers of those MSPs. Backups take time.
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