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Everything you need to know about the Petya, er, NotPetya nasty trashing PCs worldwide

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Re: Backups

"For this sort of fast acting malware backups are great, but there are plenty out there that silently do their work for weeks before activating, in which case you are screwed."

I guess in that case the size of your incremental backup sets would be a pretty good canary for a ransomware attack.

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