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May 15, 2019
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Veracruz
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How much did the ransomware guys want for decrypting those servers?
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No one died or got divorced, but the last 80 hours have been awful.
Belboz
5/14/19 12:35am
What kind of IT work do you do?
dYrtbYkerYder
5/14/19 12:47am
Systems guy.
Belboz
5/14/19 2:26am
If your company is that short staffed, time for a new job
BeyondTheMark
5/14/19 5:09am
This. My lil' brother is in computers, doesn't have a degree but has lots of certifications, and he just switched jobs
Smack'sWife
5/14/19 6:24am
I've left this company twice in the last 20 years only to return.
Belboz
5/15/19 2:23am
We lost 800 servers on Friday night and have to rebuild
Belboz
5/15/19 2:09am
Was there a disaster?
kapcreations
5/14/19 6:21am
Exactly, if this is the norm and not a disaster he needs to find a new company
fredy
5/14/19 6:40am
I think he mentioned a last week they were dealing with a massive virus
Duke Silver
5/14/19 8:08am
Ransomeware. I'm months shy of 50 and worked my whole career in IT
Belboz
5/15/19 2:17am
Did it move laterally because of patching or credentials?
kapcreations
5/15/19 6:14am
How much did the ransomware guys want for decrypting those servers?
Veracruz
5/15/19 6:53am
That's a cycle you never want to enter. Better to take the brunt and restore
VACOUGFAN
5/15/19 8:45am
Yeah, don't even entertain the thought.
Squeegee
5/15/19 8:55am
I know of two different companies who paid, one $2500 the other $50,000.
Veracruz
5/16/19 10:29am
I never cared enough to find out. i'm sure it would have been a payment plan
Belboz
5/15/19 11:46am
Windows 2008? Almost impossible to stop people from hacking if they make it past
CougarAndMerlin
5/15/19 7:25am
We still had about 200 2008.
Belboz
5/15/19 11:48am
well, we did have a good percentage of 2008 unaffected. all 2012 were killed.
Belboz
5/15/19 3:16pm
As soon as a domain admin hash is pulled from a 2008, all other servers
CougarAndMerlin
5/15/19 3:24pm
lol. yeah, reboot a server just like that...
Belboz
5/15/19 5:15pm
How is that specific to 2008?
kapcreations
5/15/19 5:34pm
2008 is susceptible to extracting password hashes out of memory.
CougarAndMerlin
5/15/19 10:41pm
AND despite having regular PCI audits, our domain admins list was out of control
Belboz
5/15/19 11:15pm
Yucky
Gerald-DeGroot
5/14/19 1:38am
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