How to Survive a Ransomware Attack

Some Dude Says
11 min readJul 28, 2019
Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay

With the sheer volume of ransomware attacks in the past couple weeks, I decided to write an article about what works and what doesn’t. I’m writing about ransomware attacks, but this advice ultimately applies to most types of compromises, viruses, or malware attacks. These steps are going to be more generic because there is “no one size fits all” approach to resolving infection or compromise.

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