Ransomware has been a pervasive and dangerous threat to the business community for over five years. Seems like everywhere you turn, there’s another story about a new ransomware attack. And then, on Friday, May 12, the big one hit: WanaCrypt0r infected tens of thousands of endpoints in 150 countries, resulting in the largest ransomware outbreak in history. Unfortunately, this trend in cybercrime is not going away.
Now here’s the bright side: As dangerous as ransomware can be, it’s avoidable. So instead of closing your eyes and praying it all goes away soon, take a look at this infographic to see what you can do to protect your business from this ubiquitous threat.
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Patching up the OS isn’t really much of a need when you’ve got weekly offsite backups for basic consumers.
well it does save quite a pain of getting infected in the first place as well as cleaning and restoring from a non infected backup
Can ransomware trash Dropbox folders?
From my understanding, Dropbox for Business uses versioning for their files so a recovery would be as easy as rolling back the last known good version and overwriting the encrypted data.