Ransomware has a new target. Is your backup ready?
Ransomware actors are increasingly destroying backup infrastructure before encryption to maximise leverage — a trend that demands air-gapped, immutable recovery environments validated through regular restore drills.
Summary written by editorial AI · Source link below
Ransomware groups are increasingly targeting backup infrastructure to eliminate recovery options and increase pressure on victims to pay. Kaseya explains why organizations need isolated, immutable, and regularly tested backups that attackers cannot easily reach. [...]
Editorial Analysis
Backup destruction before encryption removes the primary recovery path, turning a containable incident into an existential business risk for organisations without tested immutable copies.
Verify that all critical backups are air-gapped or immutable, and schedule a recovery drill within the next 30 days.
Ransomware groups now routinely destroy backups before encrypting production — organisations without immutable, tested copies face total data loss.
Forward-looking interpretation drafted by editorial AI under human review — not a reproduction of the source. See methodology.
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