My brother-in-law works for a company that got hit as part of the Microsoft debacle in Fall of 2021. They had all their systems in place that apparently only resulted in blocking the notifications that might have warned them that they were infected BEFORE the ransomware kicked in and actually locked them down. From what he told me they paid and it still took almost 6 weeks to get stuff back. I haven’t had a conversation with him about it since (and he’s not in IT so didn’t know details) so I don’t know if they actually got anything usable after paying up.
Really sucks….. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 1:48 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> 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
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