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Engineering firm thwarts ransomware attack with Nasuni

Engineering firm thwarts ransomware attack with Nasuni Ransomware got in through an exploit in an older version of SQL Server, but Dennis Group used Nasuni to restore its systems back to a pre-attack state with minimal data loss. Share this item with your network: By Published: 14 Apr 2021 Using an exploit in an older version of Microsoft SQL Server, cyber attackers successfully deployed ransomware in Dennis Group s network. The building engineering firm used Nasuni s built-in data protection to undo all the unauthorized encryption and restore everything back to an earlier, uninfected state. The attack occurred on a Friday night in summer 2020 and wasn t discovered until the next morning, when a staff member happened to log on to a work laptop and couldn t access certain files. The intrusion occurred on an old SQL server running legacy SharePoint, and the attackers created admin-level credentials to compromise and spread across Dennis Group s network.

Editor s letter

Editor’s letter There’s a specific feeling I get whenever I fly into New York’s JFK airport and start to make the drive home. It feels exactly like turbulence. The roads around the nation’s busiest international air hub are littered with moon crater–size potholes, which make for a juddering and profanity-filled (“Oh, my poor bleeping suspension”) experience. This isn’t a uniquely New York problem: According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 43 percent of roads across the U.S. are in poor or mediocre condition. And the decay goes beyond holes in the blacktop. More than 40 percent of the country’s bridges are at least 50 years old, and about 46,150 have been given the worrying designation “structurally deficient.” Some 178 million trips are made across these decrepit bridges every day. At the current rate of investment, it will take until 2071 to make all the repairs currently needed to those spans—but by the

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