Attacked By Deadbolt Ransomware
Deadbolt Out of the Blue Slightly after my father went back home from work on May 13, his QNAP NAS server at his company was attacked by Deadbolt Ransomware. He noticed the extensions of all the files on the server were turned into .deadbolt next morning. Because it was Saturday morning, his securiy management company was not operating, so he gave me a call. He asked me to come to check it up and fix it. Then I thought his vendor should take care of the incident because I was not in charge of the security management of the server any longer. So I asked him to wait for their support. Next week, the person in charge of my father's server from the vendor visited his company and explained how they could recover the files. He told us the server had been set up so that backup files would be made when they were stored at the same time, and they would be able to restore the files from the backup. My father made them take the server to their place then. It took them quite a few days to est...