Ransomware has been weaponized by cybercriminals and rogue governments, posing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are victimized. The latest versions of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial recovery a complex and expensive exercise. New variations of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Conti and Egregor have emerged, displacing Locky, Spora, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
Most crypto-ransomware penetrations come from innocent-seeming emails with dangerous links or attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus filters. Although user training and frontline detection are critical to defend against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will eventually succeed and that you put in place a solid backup mechanism that enables you to recover rapidly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service centered around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware defense and repair. During this assessment Progent will work with your Curitiba IT managers to collect pertinent information about your security setup and backup environment. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to adhere to best practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital issues related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
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About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is asked to pay a specified ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will restore the lost data or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the target is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another popular attack vector is a poorly protected RDP port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Notorious examples are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current high-profile variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Spora are more elaborate and have caused more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup procedures enable you to recover your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public. Because new versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect the latest attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a solid scheme for performing and retaining remote backups and the deployment of reliable recovery platforms.
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