Ransomware Prevention and Malware Attack Solutions

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Ransomware Protection: How to Prevent Ransomware

Datto protects businesses against ransomware attacks and ensures control and ownership remain undisrupted.

What is Ransomware?

Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or locks your files and demands payment to access them. Although there are multiple strains of ransomware, all fall under two main types: crypto-ransomware and locker ransomware.

Regardless of the strain, ransomware is a criminal money-making scheme that is triggered by tricking users into clicking on deceptive links using social engineering tactics or by exploiting system vulnerabilities.

Some strains go a step further and mark the files for permanent deletion. The perpetrators then demand ransom payments (usually in untraceable cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin) for the private key required to decrypt and access the files.

To prevent attacks like this, managed service providers (MSPs) should adopt a layered approach that includes employee education, IT security, and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) technology to achieve the best possible cyber resilience for your business and their clients.

The Solution: Protect Data Against Cyber Extortion with Datto

Datto RMM: Prevent and Detect Ransomware

Datto RMM: Prevent and Detect Ransomware

The first step to protecting IT systems is to keep them patched and up to date. Datto RMM delivers effective policy-based patch management to keep clients’ machines secure. Datto RMM also takes the next step on ransomware defense by including native Ransomware Detection which monitors for crypto-ransomware and attempts to kill the virus to help reduce the impact of an attack.

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Proactively Respond with Autotask PSA

Proactively Respond with Autotask PSA

Identifying attacks is step one in reducing the impact of a ransomware attack, and with Datto RMM and Autotask PSA, you can proactively respond. Datto RMM monitoring alerts are intelligently routed into Autotask PSA so technicians can focus on top-priority tickets. An intelligent alert-to-ticket engine reduces noise, strips out duplicates, and updates tickets with any new status from Datto RMM.

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Datto SIRIS: Protect and Recover

Datto SIRIS: Protect and Recover

The last line of defense is all about protecting and recovering your data. No matter what the cybercriminals target, Datto SIRIS will protect physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures and data. With Datto SIRIS, not only can you protect your data, but you can also recover rapidly to minimize downtime. SIRIS also detects ransomware within backups, saving time when locating your last clean system restore point.

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Secure SaaS Data in the Cloud

Secure SaaS Data in the Cloud

Ransomware can impact data stored in cloud applications, too, so it’s critical that business data in the cloud is secure. Datto SaaS protection eliminates the risk of becoming a victim of a ransomware attack. Even if ransomware locks your data on cloud-based applications like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, with Datto SaaS Protection data is easily recovered.

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"If we didn’t have a ransomware recovery solution like Datto in place, I honestly don’t know where the business would be. The cyber attack hit the very core of what we do in the services we provide."

RYAN LAMPKINS

Information Systems Manager, CTI

Layers of Protection from Ransomware

When it comes to protecting business data from ransomware attacks, there is no single solution that can fully protect you. It’s vital to take a multi-layered strategy to improve cyber resilience.

Cybersecurity Training

Cybersecurity Training

Cybersecurity programs teach users about the dangers of social engineering and phishing emails and outline sound security practices about email attachments, malicious links, and more.

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Ransomware Detection & Planning

Ransomware Detection & Planning

Businesses always need to plan for the worst to happen, to do this they need to have and regularly test disaster recovery plans (DR plans). This will ensure that they know what to do in a disaster and how to return to operation. Ensure that you are using tools to detect attacks across your networks to ensure a rapid response and minimal spread.

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Ransomware Prevention

Ransomware Prevention

There are two major parts here, Antivirus software and system patching. If a malicious link or attachment is accessed, the antivirus will try to detect the ransomware to avert an infection . However, new strains are being created faster than antivirus can protect against them, so some strains do succeed. Additionally, patching software vulnerabilities helps to prevent cyber attackers from accessing systems.

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Ransomware Recovery

Ransomware Recovery

The last line of defense is having a reliable and regularly tested backup of your systems. A data protection solution such as Datto SIRIS provides the ultimate failsafe in a layered defense strategy, taking backups of data and systems and storing them in a Datto’s private cloud. If you fall victim to an attack, you can simply recover your systems back to before the attack happened.

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Notorious Ransomware Types

CryptoLocker

CryptoLocker is one of the most well-known strains. The original CryptoLocker botnet was shut down in May 2014, but not before the hackers behind it extorted nearly $3 million from victims. Since then, hackers have widely copied the CryptoLocker approach, although the variants in operation today are not directly linked to the original.

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WannaCry

In 2017, WannaCry became global news in a widespread ransomware campaign that targeted 200,000 organizations in more than 150 countries. The ransomware strain affected Windows machines through a weakness known as EternalBlue. Unpatched and out-of-date systems were crippled by this attack, costing businesses both time and revenue.

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Petya

Petya was originally discovered in March 2016, the strain was named after the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. However, the effects of this strain were no fiction. Unlike some other types of ransomware, Petya encrypts entire computer systems. Petya overwrites the master boot record, rendering the operating system unbootable.

Ryuk

Ryuk ransomware was the attack of choice in 2020, responsible for more than a third of all ransomware attacks that year. Ryuk is used in attacks targeting companies, hospitals, and government organizations. Ryuk encrypts business-critical files and demands a high ransom–typically in the multi-millions.

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Bad Rabbit

Bad Rabbit spreads through a fake Adobe Flash update on compromised websites. This strain of ransomware has infected organizations in Russia and Eastern Europe but is still a global threat. When the ransomware infects a machine, users are directed to a payment page demanding .05 bitcoin.

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Maze

Discovered in 2019, Maze ransomware has quickly made news for being responsible for the release of data belonging to victims, mainly in the healthcare industry. However, companies like Xerox Corporation have also been targeted by Maze ransomware operators, who have stolen more than 100GB of files.

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Testimonials on Datto's Ransomware Protection

“When a client was infected with ransomware that encrypted and locked their files, there was no need to panic. Without Datto, the amount of data loss and downtime in cases like this would be cripling.”

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Robert Marsden
Managing Director, Addictive Technology