Emergency Recovery for School District with Large Tape Backup
The customer A metropolitan US school district The challenge The school district containing 165 schools was shut down by a Ryuk ransomware attack that affected its entire network. The attack was...
Accounting Database Recovered from a lost VMware Virtual Disk
The Customer A local German IT service contractor, HMR Systemhaus GmbH, received a call from a tax consultancy firm about an important virtual machine (VM) that was not running anymore. The Situation...
Amazon EC2 Cloud Recovery
The Customer A data hosting solution provider for media companies needed access to deleted ElasticSearch data files from an Amazon EC2 environment. The Situation The client was hosting a 3-node...
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...
Hospital databases rescued from ransomware.
The Situation A ransomware attack with the ‘Locky’ virus had severe effects for a large German hospital. Many servers at the hospital were paralyzed by the virus, limiting operations. Uninfected...
A leading IT services company needed to access legacy tapes in a short timeframe.
The Situation As part of a larger bespoke IT project the client was facilitating for a third-party, the identification, restoration and compliant archiving of 2,500 individual Microsoft Exchange...
IBM server with a RAID 5 comprised of 5 SCSI hard drives failed
The Situation According to the manager of the resort, the server contained every single record of their operations since the day that they opened – property management, reservations, accounting,...