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I find myself caring less and less about ransomware on my laptop because everything is in the cloud. I wonder if that is exactly what they (insert evil cloud pr
by reustle 11y ago
I find myself caring less and less about ransomware on my laptop because everything is in the cloud. I wonder if that is exactly what they (insert evil cloud provider here) want me to think? (removes tinfoil hat)
- cm2187 11y agoLike dropbox? I would expect the malware to encrypt it like any other folder, you will just have encrypted files in the cloud. Unless your provider gives you incremental backups.
- masklinn 11y ago> Like dropbox? I would expect the malware to encrypt it like any other folder It will, but AFAIK Dropbox keeps data for 30 days (or can get a yearly thing). I don't know if it's possible to rollback the entire stash though, nor do I know if there's a limit in the number of updates. > Unless your provider gives you incremental backups. I would really hope most cloud services either do that or only push verified files (for software-specific clouds) in which case the encrypted files would fault the application and not be uploaded or downloaded.
- reustle 11y agoNo, like google drive. The files do not exist on my computer, only in my browser.
- absorber 11y agoIIRC there is a Google Drive application which allows the users to have a similar "virtual folder" functionality as Dropbox has.
- rdtsc 11y agoBut if you somehow automatically upload to the cloud from your laptop, wouldn't that have the same effect? In most of the large scale damage it is not necessarily that the ransomware was spread to all the machines, but that it accessed shared network resources.
- tamana 11y agoNext up: ransomeware that replaces your cloud files with encrypted version