Garmin reportedly pays multi-million dollar ransom to hackers

[TelkomUseless]

It is uploaded to your current system state.
That state is backed up and the next one is backed up etc.
Eventually all your backups are infected.

There is no recovery, hence why the ransom is paid, or you start from scratch.

hmm. I'm not sure how they work... but there is no access to servers (and password access on ports). If I open ransomware, only I will get infected (not servers). And If the server is infected, it can't spread because servers are locked down.

Their SQL server backups should be offsite backed up etc. Can't be infected with it. And you should always had a release build ready to restore any time.

I look at the environment were I work... no way this would happen. Everything is locked down. And if it does, we can rollback data to hour before. And release the live branch.

I still think can't imagine being offline for days due to this if they took security serious.

 

[PCWARITM]

Saw at previous company. People had mapped drives to the server... and opened ransonware.

Not sure how such a big company fell for this.

Bigger companies often have way higher risk because of the attack surface. Few companies rely solely on their own staff to get business done.
Compromise is almost inevitable - not about if but when and how and how good your disaster recovery process is.

VNETS are an absolute must these days, even in smaller firms.

 

[Vicks]

Had the same. Out of interest, was it the optical heart rate sensor on the bottom that cracked?

So sorry for the late reply.

Had waterproofing failures and the sensor cracked the last time. They gave me a vivoactive3 now. And the battery is seems to be failing fast.