Can somebody explain these ransomwear attacks?

Mon Jun 28 14:39:06 UTC 2021

Hi!

On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:56:36 +0300, "Alex K." <nsp.lists at gmail.com> may
have written:
> Ah ... and one more thing. Gladly, it is not our (network folks) life's
> complicated. It's system/DBA/and security folks, lifes. But I don't want
> to get cocky. We got SDN :-)

Yet. Probably.

Ransomware gangs /do/ target infrastructure - currently known to be DNS
servers (Microsoft), hypervisors, backups, etc. I wouldn't assume that they
wouldn't try attacking the network itself today or in the future.

-- 
Mike Meredith, University of Portsmouth
Hostmaster, Security, and Chief Systems Engineer

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