Fast Data Recovery Ransomware Blog

CryptoLocker is a type of malicious software (malware) that makes data on your computer (documents, pictures, music and so on) unreadable by encrypting it using RSA-2048 bit keys; it then demands payment to un-encrypt them. Once you pay (to the tune of several hundred USD via prepaid voucher or virtual currency known as Bitcoin), you…

NO NO NO The fact that you are backing up data to the cloud is a good thing – but it’s not the act of backing up that’s the issue. The problem with typical cloud backup implementations is that they’re set to synchronize; your backed-up data in the cloud is maintained as a mirror copy…

Review and Reinforce Regardless of the damage caused by ransomware, the attack reveals a security failure resulted in a device or network compromise. Now that things are back to normal, you have an opportunity to learn from the security breach and avoid future attacks. We recommend using our Ransomware Prevention service for a top-to-bottom security assessment, to…