• Are you prepared?

    Posted on April 23, 2022 at 22:25 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    It’s Saturday night or Sunday morning where you are and I’d like to challenge you to test that you can restore a file that has been damaged, deleted or removed or worse yet, you got hit by ransomware.

    So first step is to move a file to a different location on your computer. Next launch your backup software. Launch the recovery window and see if you can restore that file.

    Ransomware is now being used by commercial attackers and they are using zero days to gain access into systems.

    One-third of all hacking groups exploiting zero-days in 2021 were financially motivated criminals as opposed to government-backed cyberespionage groups, according to Mandiant’s research. During the last decade, only a very small fraction of zero-days were deployed by cybercriminals. Experts believe the rapid change has to do with the illicit, multibillion-dollar ransomware industry.

    For businesses, they are going after VPN software, Exchange on premises software among other vulnerabilities.

    So I challenge you tonight/tomorrow to test a backup and restoration process.

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