Kacoroski’s alarming discovery-that the backups he was relying on to restore the school district’s damaged systems were unusable-is not unusual in the aftermath of a ransomware attack. The quote above comes from a recent Malwarebytes podcast, racing against a real life ransomware attack, in which host David Ruiz interviewed sysadmin Ski Kacoroski about a ransomware attack on the Northshore School District in Washington State. Ski Kacoroski, System administrator, Northshore School District We’re also feeling relatively confident, we have a very good backup system … and then we find out at about four or five hours after the attack that our backup system is completely gone. So why do we keep hearing things like this: It’s widely known, and endlessly repeated, that the last, best line of defence against the potentially devastating effects of a ransomware attack is your backups.
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