Hit by Ransomware Attack, Florida City Agrees to Pay Hackers $600k

Re:Hit by Ransomware Attack, Florida City Agrees to Pay Hack... by eeZah7Ux on Thursday June 20, 2019 @06:29AM (#20231457)

> Snapshots are immutable so even if the employee machines get infected

Not really. You can easily extract data and overwrite the disk surface.

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Re:Hit by Ransomware Attack, Florida City Agrees to Pay Hack... by jjav on Thursday June 20, 2019 @05:16PM (#20237473)

Not from the machines which typically get infected, which are the employee desktops accessing the file server.

If the malware manages to get itself running on the file server itself (and with root privileges), then sure. That's not a common case though.

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