They are totally fucked. A company I worked with got hit. They paid. No way around it.
The bad guys were very easy to work with and made it easy to pay and they totally restored everything, but there is no way around it. Off site, air gapped backup is the only thing I know of that will 100% protect you. From: Steve Jones Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 12:48 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: [AFMUG] Paying the ranson Any of you nerds ever had to pay the ransom on a ransomware? Are there brokers who handle th negotiation? This client does not carry the insurance, so there is no insurance resource. The veem image backups were also encrypted -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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