LockBit ransomware
Don’t be the next victim!!
Recently, many organizations have been targeted by a LockBit ransomware attack. The ransomware breached their network via a hacked device and was able to spread widely to the rest of their systems rendering all their company data inaccessible and disrupting all their services. The company received a message stating that their servers had been compromised, including virtual servers and backup servers. The hackers then demanded a huge ransom for the decryption of the data. This caused two months of disruption to the company’s services and immeasurable damage to their business.
This is a terrifying situation for any company
or individual, but it could have been avoided. Read on to find out how.
Typical end user use cases where encryption would be used would be when a hosted processing provider is storing sensitive end user information or when a service provider themselves wishes to store proprietary data that they wish to be secured additionally. In these cases an encrypted partition can be created for that specific data or a separate virtual drive with full file system encryption used. In this way the end user providing the service can combine best performance from data not needing encryption with high security for the data that does.
V2 Cloud has extensive experience of encrypting drive data using numerous encryption approaches, such as Cryptsetup, dm-crypt, FDE, TrueCrypt (VeraCrypt), as well as lower-level block storage encryption via ZFS and is happy to work with end users to ensure the right encryption is implemented to reflect their requirements.
Summary
Although I haven’t covered everything in the post, I hope the information I’ve highlighted here offers some reassurance in regards to your security. You can see that with a proactive approach and the right infrastructure provider you can secure your servers against these kinds of ransomware attacks.