Ransomware is taking the world by storm. Here is what you need to know.
As its name suggests, ransomware holds your data hostage and promises to release it only once a specified payment has been received – a payment often lost, as successful recovery is almost never a reality in these cases. Your more sophisticated versions of malware include attacks such as Petya variants or WannaCry. They prey on leaked exploits and use modular architecture and strong encryption.
Software vendors regularly release software, application and operating system updates. It is absolutely vital to keep these updated and patched with the latest versions. Where possible, enable automated updates or subscribe to email updates from your software vendors to keep up to date with the latest security threats and updates.
We have bundled real-time ransomware protection into our Cloud Backup software, which monitors any changes by possible ransomware and stops it right in its tracks. A good antivirus system is always recommended to stop the first sight of unwanted files being installed.
Once the groundwork of protecting your device is covered, backing up is the cherry on top. With peace of mind that no matter what happens you have a recent backup of your data, you can rest assured knowing that your data is protected with us!
Act before it's too late! Once data is encrypted, it's near impossible to 'decrypt' – even after paying the ransom amount. Why risk it in the first place?
Real-Time Ransomware Protection consistently observes patterns in the changes of data files on a system. Certain patterns could be common and expected while other patterns could signal a variety of processes taking hostile action against your files. What we do to monitor these patterns is to study them and compare them with malicious behaviour patterns. This can be an exceptionally powerful approach to identifying ransomware attacks, even from variants of ransomware that have not yet been reported.
Real-Time Ransomware Protection has the ability to detect new threats based on already-identified patterns alongside learned ones. Although it is necessary for results to be adjusted in an attempt to reduce false-positive ransomware detection, Real-Time Ransomware Protection maintains a whitelist — programs that are expected to and allowed to perform certain actions — to prevent the false tagging of authorised activities as unauthorised.
One way in which files could potentially be compromised is through the attack of the backup software itself, which would corrupt the backup files created by it. To prevent this from happening, we have implemented a strong self-defence mechanism that won’t allow for any disruption of the work of the backup agent application or backup file content. Real-Time Ransomware Protection additionally monitors the Master Boot Record of Windows-based computers and will not allow any illegitimate changes to be made that could potentially prevent you from being able to successfully boot your computer.