Why Cybercriminals Are Targeting Your Backups And How To Be Prepared
Solutions Review, Friday, February 28th, 2025
Most organizations believe they're prepared for ransomware attacks with a simple strategy: maintain good backups and use them to restore systems if cybercriminals encrypt their data.
However, there's a dangerous flaw in this approach that many overlook - attackers are increasingly targeting backup systems themselves, leaving organizations with no path to recovery.
This trend is becoming alarmingly common. Recent research from IDC reveals that in 2023, more than half of all ransomware attacks included attempts to compromise backup systems. Even more concerning, these attempts succeeded 60 percent of the time.