Ransomware. After ferreting out who compromised them, IT and security chiefs could be next out the door.
Right.
First company suspects should be the Richard Pryor luxury car driver types as in the Superman movie. Sudden wealth.
All it takes is one idiot clicking a link, opening up something, and the whole system can be infected. These worms are pretty sophisticated.
Training doesn’t work. Idiots are idiots. You can’t fix stupid. Only solution is air gapped systems. But they piss people off.
Ransomware. After ferreting out who compromised them, IT and security chiefs could be next out the door.
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When that sort of attack succeeds, it does point to an incredible lapse in security because the attack pretty much requires admin access to the data servers.
Conversely, the remedy fo the attack, short of paying the extortion money, is to restore everything from backups, which hopefully was snapshot *before* the ransomware attack and and stored offline.