Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cybercriminals and bad-actor governments, posing a possibly existential risk to businesses that fall victim. Modern versions of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a long and expensive process. Novel versions of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Snatch and Nephilim have emerged, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and CryptoWall in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
90% of crypto-ransomware breaches are caused by innocuous-looking emails with dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. Although user training and frontline identification are critical to defend your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you take for granted some malware will inevitably succeed and that you put in place a strong backup mechanism that enables you to recover quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is a low-cost service built around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware protection and repair. During this interview Progent will work with your Chatsworth IT managers to collect pertinent information about your cybersecurity profile and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to apply best practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on key issues related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
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About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is asked to send a certain amount of money, usually via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that paying the ransom will restore the damaged files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the target is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a trusted source. Another popular attack vector is a poorly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Famous examples are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and Spora are more sophisticated and have wreaked more damage than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures permit you to restore your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will block a new attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify phishing techniques. Your last line of defense is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the use of reliable restoration platforms.
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