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No, not the can of tea itself, but rather the company. In the grand scheme, a small attack – 200 servers plus all of their user’s computers hit by ransomware.
The message was “your network was hacked and encrypted”.
Staff was told not to power on their laptops, not to copy any files off of their computers and not to connect to any network. Just turn your computers in to IT.
The company tried to deal with it for FIVE DAYS before they called in the experts.
Oh, yeah, many of the back-end servers were running old, unsupported versions of Windows – which had not been patched in years. And their backups were not working right – which they did not figure out until they tried to restore them.
AFTER RESTORING THE BACKUPS FAILED, THE COMPANY THREW HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AT THE PROBLEM. Surely money will fix a flawed IT system.
And a lack of an incident response, disaster recovery and business continuity program doesn’t help.
The ransomware, thought to be iEncrypt, has no known decryptor.
The attack took out their exchange server and they could not process orders for a week. After a week, they were able to start processing orders by hand.
They were losing millions of dollars of sales a day.
Because it could have just as easily been you.
Last year, German manufacturer KrausMaffei was also said to be hit.
A few weeks ago a Georgia county was hit.
I hear about several attacks every week.
Are you ready? What would happen if all of your systems were encrypted by an attacker? Do you have a plan? Would you be able to even stay in business? Do not under estimate the power of these attacks.
In almost every case, it is a random toss of the dice rather than a targeted attack as to who got hit.
Do the work. Be prepared.
Source: TechCrunch.