Reply to post: Cryptolocker strikes again??

Lincolnshire council shuts down all IT after alleged 0-day breach

Erik4872

Cryptolocker strikes again??

The worst thing that has happened recently to places that have no IT, or awful contracted IT, is Cryptolocker and the like. It's the perfect storm of users demanding to be administrators, looking for dodgy Internet content and never backing up their stuff. It may have been a zero day breach, or it may have been an "Oh crap, shut everything off before the entire file server gets encrypted!"

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