Don't pay Vect a ransom - your data's likely already wiped out Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did not get much back, according to Check Point Research. That's because the ransomware Vect uses isn't actually ransomware at all, but a wiper that destroys any file larger than 128KB. Vect's …
This current rash of malware has one good consequence : those companies destroyed by it are going to remember that they should have paid more attention to IT and security in general.
Yes, it's going to hurt. People are going to lose their jobs. It's unfortunate.
It's also the cost of waking up to the world as it is : a dangerous place where you need to ut up firewalls and barriers if you want to last.
Make backups to a server, automatically, and for the love of everything you hold dear make sure that your server is running a different OS to the one that you’re backing up.
Then make sure that the server is backed up regularly to dumb media.
Ideally, make sure that some of your backups are offsite.
Worst case then you might lose something but you won’t lose everything.
I’m not paranoid. I’m just careful.
And backup regularly!
I was a it bit overdue doing backups on the home PC. "Lucked out" when it died and it was only a shorted out motherboard. The hard drive made it through and the data has mostly been recovered. Still need to pull a bit out of some hidden data in the AppData/Roaming which I just asked the spouse if they were using it 10 minutes ago.
"If the CEO goes to prison for..."
Such a simple solution to so many complex problems. Companies would be better and more ethically run if not doing so meant a pink jumpsuit and baloney sammiches for 10 years instead of a golden parachute and thousand dollar restaurant plates.
