: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Paying the ranson
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
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 l
My SO got hit a few years ago, and she noticed right away that something
was amiss. She called me over and I saw what was happening and managed
to pull the plug before it went very far. She lost a "gob" of pictures,
but was able to save almost everything else.
We pulled the HD from her machine
there are decryptors available for some of these
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 11:49 AM Steve Jones
wrote:
> 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.
>
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 1
