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Comment by billypilgrim

3 days ago

Modern ransomware are not just encrypting data but uploading them somewhere too, the victim is then threatened with a leak of the data. A backup does not save you from that.

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ArcHound  3 days ago

Well yes, if you get breached, you have problems. At least in good backups scenario you can continue to operate, so you have money incoming to fix this.

flipped  3 days ago

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