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He probably thought he had a backup: > "All my backups were the encrypted data, so those didn't really help either." My guess is that the "bad encryption" sim
by antx 10y ago
He probably thought he had a backup:
> "All my backups were the encrypted data, so those didn't really help either."
My guess is that the "bad encryption" simply was replicated over his "backup".
If you can't go back in time, a backup is worthless.
Ransomware are a thing, people, when will you learn?
- benmcnelly 10y agoYep, if your backup software doesn't have historical snapshots where you can jump back to a certain day, you are just going to write bad data as your backup and only have bad data to restore.