How One Company Survived a Ransomware Attack Without Paying the Ransom

Do you develop on GitHub? You can keep using GitHub but automatically sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with this tool so your projects have a backup location, and get your project in front of SourceForge's nearly 30 million monthly users. It takes less than a minute. Get new users downloading your project releases today! × 164264318 story

The crime-not-paying dept. posted a message on Sunday July 17, 2022, at 10:34AM.

Slashdot reader storagedude writes: The first signs of the ransomware attack at data storage vendor Spectra Logic were reports from a number of IT staffers about little things going wrong at the beginning of the day. Matters steadily worsened within a very short time and signs of a breach became apparent. Screens then started to display a ransom demand, which said files had been encrypted by the NetWalker ransomware virus. The ransom demand was $3.6 million, to be paid in bitcoin within five days.

At the annual Fujifilm Recording Media USA Conference in San Diego late last month, Tony Mendoza, senior director of enterprise business solutions at Spectra Logic, laid out the details of the attack.

"We unplugged systems, as the virus was spreading faster than we could investigate," Mendoza told conference attendees. "As we didn't have a comprehensive cybersecurity plan in place, the attack brought the entire business to its knees." To make matters worse, the backup server had also been wiped out, but with the help of recovery specialist Ankura, uncorrupted snapshots and [offline] tape backups helped the company get back online in days, although full recovery took a month. "We were able to restore everything and paid nothing," said Mendoza. "Other than a few files, all data was recovered."

It took us almost a month to recover from the attack, which started from a successful phish.

Slashdot posted this.

ClickUp brings your team together to plan, track, and collaborate on any project — all in one place. Track your entire project from start to finish with beautiful views that make project planning a breeze. Manage your resources on a List, Box, Gantt, Board, Calendar view or create your own workflow with any of ClickUps 10+ customizable views.

It's free to get started.