Amir Moazzami City of Hamilton Oh don't you worry. If they have to pay a big ransom to get the decryption key to unlock their databases and then also pay again to not have their data published publicly on the dark web, taxes will be going up again.
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Trish Jeremy Bearimy ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ โฅ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ City of Hamilton Usually, they sell the data, instead of publishing it for free, after the 2nd payment (extortion) has been made.
William Mehlenbacher Trish City of Hamilton Having air-gapped backup tapes (stored at tape storage vendor's storage facility) would allow any organization to never have to contact the threat actors, if their cyber security measures ever fail to prevent a breach.
Trish Jeremy Bearimy ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ โฅ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ City of Hamilton All city services are currently cash only. That means that their online payment systems are down because they were accessed by a ransomware threat group. This is what they do. Copy the databases and then encrypt them. You have to pay to decrypt and then pay again for no leak.
William Mehlenbacher Trish City of Hamilton Even after obtaining the cypher, victims have to worry about secondary extortion. Being forced to hand over more money to prevent sensitive data (names, addresses, SIN, etc) from being published or sold on the dark web. Usually it gets sold anyway after the money is paid.
William Mehlenbacher Trish City of Hamilton Once the threat actors (who wear three piece suits and make more money in a month then the city workers make in a year) gain control, they go after any backup systems and neutralize them. Proper enterprise cyber security, software installed and configured correctly, prevents it.
William Mehlenbacher Trish City of Hamilton Usually the threat actors will reveal how the breach occurred and provide tips on how it could have been prevented. That fact that it is now going into Day Five and the City if still in the stone age says to me that they did not have air-gapped tape backups to recover with.
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