As an IT worker, it seems that Cryptolocker style infections are on the rise. In my experience, these are far more devastating than your run of the mill virus. Whats worse, leading AV products like Kaspersky and ESET offer absolutely no protection against them.
Whats worse, is when they infect business networks, they have the ability to go back to the network drives and start encrypting data right on the servers.
Any time a business is hit with one of their emails, we rebroadcast the email to all of our clients... then, typically, a few days later a user at another company will open a copy of the email that they have received.
So, clearly virus warnings are not working to defeat these. The technology these businesses are paying good money for aren't doing anything. The infection goes straight though advanced firewalls. Do you have any recommendations on how to thwart these infections beyond restoring a backup and severing business continuity?
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Hi Mikko!
As an IT worker, it seems that Cryptolocker style infections are on the rise. In my experience, these are far more devastating than your run of the mill virus. Whats worse, leading AV products like Kaspersky and ESET offer absolutely no protection against them.
Whats worse, is when they infect business networks, they have the ability to go back to the network drives and start encrypting data right on the servers.
Any time a business is hit with one of their emails, we rebroadcast the email to all of our clients... then, typically, a few days later a user at another company will open a copy of the email that they have received.
So, clearly virus warnings are not working to defeat these. The technology these businesses are paying good money for aren't doing anything. The infection goes straight though advanced firewalls. Do you have any recommendations on how to thwart these infections beyond restoring a backup and severing business continuity?
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