Cyberattack on VMware Datastore and Virtual Backups
Challenge The customer was the victim of a cyberattack. Fortunately, the unusual activity was detected in a timely manner and the network was taken offline quickly. All primary VMs were compromised...
Merge files of damaged backup with corresponding virtual files
Challenge An international manufacturing company and supplier for airport transportation was hit by a cyberattack. Following their IT guidelines, the company was AIR GAPPING their tape backups on a...
Rescued MS SQL database from encrypted virtual backup on QNAP
Challenge A leading high tech incubator construction company suffered from a ransomware cyberattack. The attack was quickly detected and the customer shut down their systems immediately, but their...
Data Recovery from Malware-Infected Virtual Files
Challenge The customer suffered a cyberattack that left 100 servers partially encrypted. The ransom demanded by the hacker was over 400,000€. Federal police were unable to identify the ransomware...
Taking Advantage of Hackers’ Mistakes in a Ransomware Attack
The challenge One of the most active Ransomware-as-a-Service threat actors in the world, Black Basta which is known for its double extortion attacks, carried out a ransomware attack on a customer's...
Partnering with EMC Creates New Tools for Recovery of 10 TB of Data.
The Situation A global insurance company was storing PST data on an EMC Isilon OneFS cluster. The IT staff completed a replication task which accidentally deleted 10 TB of PST data. Unfortunately,...
German service partner turns to Ontrack to recover business and personal data from external RAID drives
The Situation The client used an Apple Macintosh desktop to work on multiple design projects for clients, backing them up to two external RAID drives. Both drives were attached directly to the Apple...