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Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You:
Backups are one the most, if not the most, important defense against ransomware, but if not configured properly, attackers will use it against you.
Recently the DoppelPaymer Ransomware operators published on their leak site the Admin user name and password for a non-paying victim's Veeam backup software.
This was not meant to expose the information to others for further attacks but was used as a warning to the victim that the ransomware operators had full access to their network, including the backups.
After seeing this information, I reached out to the operators of the DoppelPaymer and Maze Ransomware families to learn how they target victim's backups and was surprised by what I learned.
It should be noted that in this article we will be focusing on the Veeam backup software. Not because it is less secure than other software, but simply because it is one of the most popular enterprise backup products and was mentioned by the ransomware operators.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Oakenshield on Sunday March 08 2020, @06:52PM
You didn't even mention cost. Tape drives are ridiculously expensive. Jukeboxes even more so. You can buy a shitload of USB hard drives, probably one for each day of the month for less that a bottom end tape drive that can handle more that a few terabytes. Swap it out every day and take it offsite. Even the tape media costs as much as a portable 1TB USB drive.