What is Ransomware?

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You've probably heard the term ransomware used recently in the news. Between the Colonial Pipeline attack, attacks against local governments, school systems, etc., ransomware is everywhere in the news these days.
But what is ransomware? How does it work? How can you protect yourself from it?
In this lightboard video, Bradley Knapp with IBM Cloud, answer these questions and much more as he explains how ransomware can affect both your personal local machine, as well as a large enterprise, and what you can do to defense yourself against malicious attacks.
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[@tannerschumacher9269]

Brad's speaking style really makes these subjects easy to listen to. Every one of his videos I thoroughly look forward to.

[@umasivasangaran]

Thank you for sharing and appreciate your flow and effort on posting this great content. I encourage you to keep posting IT related videos more.

[@9411841905]

Thanks, you have explained it well.

[@PranavBhattarai]

Wow. Amazing flow and confidence. Loved it. I want IBM Cloud to make more videos and ignore the view counts.
Sending my love from Nepal.

[@IBMTechnology]

Thank you for the great feedback, Pranav! 🙏 We will certainly keep doing more videos like this, be sure to stay subscribed!

[@EngineeringChampion]

I enjoyed this video! Thank you!

[@r4jjin]

Nice explanation 👍

[@nhlanngwe1]

great explanation .thank you!

[@maddieg5759]

This the best vedio for introduction on Ransomware !! Thank you 😊

[@IBMTechnology]

Thanks for the appreciation, Maddie, and you're welcome! 😀

[@arislopez411]

Excellent

[@evolvemga]

This is great! Anyone who is looking for more info on ransomware should check the video out

[@IBMTechnology]

Thanks for the appreciation! 👍

[@garethjohn8931]

I take it the Under armour logo is on your left side? Either that or you're amazing at writing backwards.

[@jeandy4495]

I'm surprised that he did not speak about the human dimension. In a company, workers may open emails and download attachments which contain malicious code. For example an Excel file with macros. In this case scenario, the machine is not the problem, but the user.

[@davidanam7509]

What do you do when the company does not want to spend on backups?

[@RushikeshJoshi8]

In today's increasingly online world advancements also mean more vulnerabilities and loopholes to exploit, which makes it easier for malicious software to take control of the systems running older versions of the software or OS, thank you IBM for educating everyone about this as this can have severe consequences if left unchecked, kudos!!

[@John-rambo84]

Uuuuu77777

[@omaralaadin3927]

Wow, Great... Is there a way or a pattern on which, the victim could know which Backup is prior to the Vulnerability Injection?

[@bradleyknapp2909]

Omar, unfortunately, you need to do a manual examination of your backups after determining the kind/type of malware to determine if a backup is clean before restoring it.
That said, the most important step (after confirming a clean backup) is making sure that the machine you are restoring is OFFLINE and the vulnerabilities that allowed for the installation of the malware are patched before bringing the machine back fully online and restoring to production use.

[@dhanushkohlinagaraj5176]

@@bradleyknapp2909 great!!

[@elmarius77]

Yes, using Cybersense (full content analytics) in a Cyber Recovery Vault.

[@user-xs1ju7ly5s]

Хорошо рассказал. Спасибо

[@irfankhan-hd6it]

how to recover the encrypted files by "woit"

[@Njs1211]

How to check if my backup already have Ransomeware?

[@jeandy4495]

This is hard to tell. You kind of have to check manually through all the files if you don't have weird ones or if weird processes are running. You'd notice if your backup has the ransomware if after some time, your system gets encrypted again.

[@berserkerwolf7674]

I got hit with ransomware last week. I logged on to my FB, but its locked. Can ransomware hack my social media accounts?

[@jeandy4495]

As the hacker has access to your computer, he may execute and do whatever he wants, including accessing your accounts if the credentials were saved. But this is not the goal of a ransomware.

[@mikeh7476]

How is this guy writing backwards tho

[@horsepower523]

Ah yes, that's the real question isn't it lol

[@jeandy4495]

Hope it's not disappointing, but he actually writes normally and they mirror the image in post-prod

[@sharky9493]

Don´t use Windows 95, use XP. and you are safe!!!😂