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Comment by finghin

3 days ago

Sleeper agent malware is a thing especially in high risk situations. If somebody has a dormant RAT installed since year X-1 it’s going to be impossible to solve that in year X by using backups

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BenjiWiebe  3 days ago

What about non executable backups? Backup data but not programs?

Not applicable everywhere, but I think it's applicable most places.

  • parineum  3 days ago

    Executables read data.

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