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Real case: Use backups to deal with blackmail incidents!

2021-06-22 | Vinchin Official

JBS, the world's largest meat supplier, suffered a ransomware attack. Many factories had to stop operations for a few days. Finally, they had to pay $11 million worth of Bitcoin as a ransom.

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According to the New Zealand Herald, New Zealand government agencies stated that malware attacks, including ransomware, increased by 2008% compared to last year.

 

Looking back at a series of recent cyber attacks, ransomware has clearly become a powerful weapon for cyber criminals. Due to the lack of effective data backup solutions, more and more companies have no choice but to pay ransoms to cyber criminals.

 

Just a few days ago, an enterprise user of Vinchin was attacked by a ransomware virus. Fortunately, it did not cause any loss due to the adoption of Vinchin's data protection plan. Finally, the data was successfully restored, avoiding the result of being forced to pay a ransom.

 

On June 13th, Vinchin received feedback from an enterprise customer that in the morning, the customer discovered that two database servers were encrypted by ransomware, which made the servers unusable. After discovering that the server was attacked by a ransomware virus, the enterprise customer immediately cut off the server's network connection, but the ERP system was still in a state of paralysis.


Because the enterprise customer deployed Vinchin's backup system throughout the company earlier, and configured daily backup tasks through the backup system. After receiving the feedback, Vinchin technicians immediately checked the backup data and found that the last backup data task was at 23:00 on the 12th, which can be restored to the backup state at 23:00 on the 12th.


Vinchin proposed to the enterprise customer to build a new database recovery environment, consistent with the original database environment, and use Vinchin's backup system to restore its last successful backup point.


The restoration process started at 18:40 on June 13, and the data was successfully restored to another client's designated database at 19:31. It took 51 minutes to complete the restoration of the client's system data and the ERP system was resumed.


It has been verified that Vinchin’s data backup system can effectively respond to emergencies, can quickly complete the recovery task in a short time, achieve effective data backup, and the user's business interruption time is controllable, effectively reducing the user's loss.

 

In the information age, data is the foundation for modern enterprises to conduct business. It is predicted that the global losses caused by ransomware in 2021 will reach 20 billion U.S. dollars, which is 57 times that of 2015. By 2031, the losses caused by ransomware will reach 265 billion U.S. dollars. Although governments are working hard to crack down on ransomware gangs, all signs indicate that the threat posed by ransomware in the next ten years will not be alleviated.


Traditional security defense systems cannot guarantee 100% system security. A small malicious email may interrupt the business operations of a multinational company for several days. Once ransomware comes to the door, the company will face huge economic losses. Therefore, doing a good job in data backup and recovery is the primary task of sustainable business development and the best solution to ransomware attacks.


Paying a ransom is not the only way to retrieve the lost data. Compared with the sky-high ransom, a disaster recovery backup system is more effective and reliable.


Vinchin will release the latest version of Vinchin's disaster recovery backup system this year, with innovative addition of backup data protection functions, which can effectively prevent ransomware from tampering with data.

 

Through the unique Vinchin Encrypted backups technology, Vinchin monitors and protects the backup data in an all-round way. When ransomware or malware tries to modify the backup data, it will be directly denied access, thus effectively protecting the backup data.

 

The data protection function of Vinchin backup data can effectively resist malicious attacks and provide additional protection for user data security. The latest version of Vinchin disaster recovery backup system will be launched this year, so stay tuned!

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