BACKGROUND: A student’s attempt to pirate an expensive data visualization software led to a full-blown Ryuk ransomware attack at a European biomolecular research institute. After the research institute suffered the attack, Sophos’ Rapid Response team responded and neutralized the cyberattack. This attack lost the institute a week’s worth of research data and a week-long network outage as servers were rebuilt from scratch and data restored from backups. Experts Comments
