Security News > 2020 > April > The battle against ransomware: Lessons from the front lines

As a provider of cyber insurance, we have the misfortune of responding to ransomware attacks across tens of thousands of organizations, and the trends are worrying.

Although the majority of ransomware campaigns were observed to target Windows environments, there were also successful attacks against Linux environments.

Ransomware attacks are "Noisy": once the ransomware runs, files become inaccessible, often with a new appended file extension, and a ransomware note is often found in a text or HTML file alongside the encrypted files.

To prevent a ransomware attack, you need to be able to spot the precursors quickly, before the ransomware is deployed.

The best way to prevent a ransomware attack is to eliminate remote access and administration interfaces that are connected to the primary network environment.

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