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One Morning, A Nightmare Unfolds at Company A

“All our project files are .locked!”

Xiaolin from the IT department boots up his workstation. His email won’t open, and every project folder is showing a strange.lockedextension. Moments later, a red warning flashes across the screen:

The Common Mistake in Ransomware Defense: Tool Overload

So what’s the real solution? Let’s look at a real case.

8:50 AM – It All Starts with a Click

“Your files are encrypted! Pay 20 BTC within 24h or kiss your data goodbye.”

As panic sets in, Xiaolin checks the backup—only to discover the backup drive is infected too. Frantic calls to vendors, law enforcement, emergency system reinstalls… but business operations grind to a halt for 24 hours, causing nearly a million yuan in losses.

And this is far from unique. Ransomware incidents like this are becoming an everyday reality for businesses.

Post-Incident Forensics: The Backup Was There—But Useless

Modern ransomware has evolved into multi-pronged threats:

• Double and triple extortion: encrypt your data, threaten to leak it, and even blackmail your clients.

• Destructive and adaptive: infect backups, exfiltrate data, and spread laterally across networks.

How Ransomware Works: A Full Attack Chain

1. Infiltration – How It Gets In

• Phishing emails: Fake invoices, shipping notices—one click and it’s over.

• Exploits: EternalBlue and other known vulnerabilities.

• Brute-force login: Attacking RDP sessions with weak passwords.

• Malvertising: You don’t even have to click to get infected.

Once in, the malware connects quietly to a command-and-control (C2) server—evading firewalls and going unnoticed.

2. Encryption – Locking Down Your Data

3. Spread – Lateral Movement Inside Your Network

• Network scanning: Finds other devices to infect.

• Domain controller takeover: Gives attackers control over the whole network.

• Automated scripts: Encrypt everything at lightning speed.

4. Ransom Demand – The Dark Business Model

And the worst part?

The Real Solution: Full-Chain Ransomware Defense

The Key: Backup You Can Trust

Most businesses back up regularly… but have never tested their recovery. When crisis hits, they discover:

• Backups are outdated, corrupted, or infected.

• Recovery procedures are undocumented or untested.

• IT environments are complex—spanning physical machines, virtual platforms, cloud storage, and SaaS apps—making unified backup and recovery a challenge.

Some malware even infects backup files or targets the backup system itself.

Information2’s Anti-Ransomware Backup: Engineered for Recovery

We believe in a simple truth:

Our anti-ransomware backup strategy focuses on a “Prevent-Isolate-Lock” model:

✅ 1 Clean Zone – A dedicated, isolated environment for all backup tasks—no virus can access it.

Core Capability 1: Proactive Defense

• Minimized attack surface (only essential ports open)

• Role-based access controls

• Hardened OS configurations

• Behavior audit trails to track and trace attacks

Core Capability 2: Tamper-Proof Backup

• Whitelisted access: only trusted processes can touch backup data

• Immutable paths: no deletion or overwrite possible

• Full activity logging

• Self-protecting kernel modules

• Custom isolation strategies for different systems and workloads

Core Capability 3: Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

• Log every change in seconds

• Restore to any point in time

• Backup files invisible to malware and physically isolated from external networks

• Granular recovery at file or folder level—no need to restore entire systems

Final Thought

Ransomware defense is not just about blocking attacks—it’s about recovering from them.

Information2’s Anti-Ransomware Backup solution, powered by byte-level and snapshot technologies, supports mainstream OS, databases, and virtualization platforms.