Pennsylvania Senate Democrats resist ransom in cyberattack

washingtontimes ^ | MARC LEVY

[Only1choice____Freedom]

No, they drug their heels and the time expired on the offer.

They could not stop it on the suspect system and, being Democrats, they had no backup so they lost it all.

Funny how when you go to deceive others, your own deception can cause your downfall.

For a party that has virtually no concept of security or foresight, this kind of failure is inevitable.

There are two ways to recover from this kind of attack.
1: kill the system that did the deed or is causing the damage and restore the corrupted files from some sort of backup. or
2: catch the system when it finishes the encryption. Then pay the ransom and hope they keep their word to send the decryption signal to the workstation that opened the email or web page.

Cryptolocker is not to be played with unless you have good backups.

Keeping no backups or not testing them from time to time is a recipe for failure.

Easy to recover if they did their DR plan.

Failure to plan is planning to fail.

The 7 “P’s”
Proper
Prior
Planning
Prevents
Piss
Poor
Performance

[catnipman]

“if this is the variant that jumps across network shares (and it almost certainly is)”

network file shares are like any other filesystem on Windows, and so yes, ransomware nukes those too. I’ve seen a whole business wiped out that way and they didn’t have any backups.

Fortunately, i was able to recover ALL of their data (which amounted to MANY gigabytes) using the system protection/previous versions i mentioned earlier, and which also btw, is secretly present in W8 but doesn’t actually work for any files over a few thousand bytes as larger files are corrupted in the version backups, AND has been removed altogether in W10. Thus, after W7, MS has removed THE BEST facility for the average person to recover from ransomware!

[Flick Lives]

Maybe they should try the password “password”.