Security News > 2019 > January > Ransomware Attack Against Hosting Provider Confirms MSPs Are Prime Targets

2019-01-04 15:50
Dataresolution.net, a cloud hosting provider headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, CA and with data centers in Los Angeles CA, Reston VA, London UK, Hamilton Bermuda, and Canada, was infected with ransomware on Christmas Eve, 2018. It appears that the firm declined to pay any ransom, and is reconstituting the files manually and from backups. read more
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