Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cybercriminals and rogue governments, representing a possibly lethal risk to businesses that fall victim. Modern versions of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and expensive exercise. New strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and NotPetya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware breaches are the result of innocent-looking emails with dangerous links or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and frontline detection are important to protect your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a strong backup solution that enables you to restore files and services quickly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will work with your Cabo Frio network managers to collect pertinent information about your security profile and backup environment. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow best practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to block or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital issues related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
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About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the victim is required to send a specified ransom, typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the target is lured into responding to by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a familiar sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious attacks include Locky, and NotPetya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Spora are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than older versions. Even if your backup procedures enable you to restore your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware are launched daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block the latest malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for performing and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.
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