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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 08 2020, @04:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the leverage dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Monday March 09 2020, @12:55AM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Monday March 09 2020, @12:55AM (#968359) Homepage

    If it's offline, you must assume it can be modified too. Hell, if it exists, you must assume it can be modified; reality doesn't have a readonly bit. The difference is that if it's online, you can monitor and recover from data corruption. Not so when you come back to your offline backup and discover it no longer works.

    There are no guarantees, there are only probabilities.

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