(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us encountered when working with a client, doing some testing, or were asked in a random question from the community.)
Several times a year, and most recently a couple of weeks ago, we are contacted by an unfortunate company that’s been the victim of a ransomware attack. In each case, either they negotiated and were given some decrypted database files, or went through a third-party specialist that decrypted